The Ice Owl

This is a great read for a YA audience, but for an adult it loses a little of its shine. The Ice Owl has an interesting world, one where religion separates class and a tone like music from the spheres separates the day. Teen-age Thorn has lived over 100 years, but not really. That's her

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planet-hopping age. When persecution shuts down her school, she finds a new teacher and that new teacher is somehow linked to her past on a planet during a genocide. Here's where it falls through for adults. At this point, it becomes a holocaust retelling. If she had changed a few details or went into more detail, it might have stayed fresh. For me, the historic background of the story didn't seem well integrated and that threw me out of the story.

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