LitPick Review
Adara is the protagonist, with the heat, her father, and the war as the antagonists. Adara must overcome her cold heart and experience death and life to understand warmth, but she was born in a snow storm, which killed her mother. Then, in the midst of a cold childhood, Adara meets the ice dragon. It is even colder than her, breathing ice instead of fire, and freezing rivers that it settles next to. But just as her friendship with the ice dragon blossoms, a war is upon her father's farm. Adara has to choose between her family or a cold life with the ice dragon, in a land where winter never ends... the decision is up to her.
Opinion:
The Ice Dragon was a captivating book, with a tragedy and a mystery wound into it. Adara is a mysterious little child, unloved by her father and shunned by the rest of the village children. But the most interesting thing is that she doesn't care, prefering to go and build ice fortresses alone than torture ice lizards with the other children. When the ice dragon is introduced to the story, at first I was afraid for the villagers; and the Adara befriended it, so the fear abated. The climax point (where Adara chose which life to live) was thrilling, and showed a clear hardship for Adara. The only thing that I thought could have been made more clear was the location, as it only included Uncle Hal talking about the king. But other than that, the overall book was definetly a page-turner, keeping me from other tasks to read it.
