Midwinter Blood has a
theme that is plainly stated inside the passage. That theme is love can out
last all things even time. Eric's whole purpose throughout the story has been
to get back to his wife after he was killed as a sacrifice by his own people.
Merle's goal is the same. After being separated from her husband all she did
for generations was try to be reincarnated with the
man she loves. Tor's goal isn't to just break the couple up. No, Tor wants to sacrifice the reincarnated King so that children will be born on the island
once more.
Time to talk about the
book itself; the book is set up like a burger with several different layers.
First the bun the main story before anything really begins to unfold. Then the
pickles, lettuce, tomatoes all of the little stories that eventually build up
to the meat of the problem. Then the book puts you back at the bun where
all of the stories come together. At first it is really
confusing but it gradually begins to make more sense as you read in.
Since the book is
structured so that there are several small stories it doesn't give the
character enough time to show and depth which makes it hard to like any
characters other than the main three that constantly show up over and over in
the story. Even then the characters only show a small side of themselves.
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