The sympathetic Angel and Bavar both deal with life-shattering tragedy, but Wilson’s story is full of hope and spirit. An imaginative story about magic, friendship, and healing.” — Booklist
“A solid friendship tale for fans of eerie fantasy.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Wilson uses spare prose and distinct voices for Angel and Bavar as the protagonists struggle with personal tragedy, family issues, and ethical considerations. Recommended for readers who enjoy Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.” — School Library Journal
Praise for The Lost Frost Girl: “A fantastical, frost-filled, coming-of-age debut.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Similar to Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, Wilson’s debut nicely blends reality and fantasy into an entertaining read. Wilson brings the fairy tale individuals to life while maintaining a delightful combination of realism and fantasy. A promising first novel.” — Booklist
“This character-driven fantasy exhibits a nice balance between Owl’s magical adventures and her human struggles with friendship and school. Purchase where fantasy flies off the shelves.” — School Library Journal
“As magical as frost itself, The Lost Frost Girl is a truly special tale, told with gorgeous prose and filled with compelling characters. I absolutely loved it!” — Sarah Beth Durst, author of Journey Across the Hidden Islands
“Charming, clever, and enchanting, The Lost Frost Girl is a modern fairy tale about discovering yourself and the place you truly belong.” — Kristin Bailey, author of The Silver Gate
The sympathetic Angel and Bavar both deal with life-shattering tragedy, but Wilson’s story is full of hope and spirit. An imaginative story about magic, friendship, and healing.
As magical as frost itself, The Lost Frost Girl is a truly special tale, told with gorgeous prose and filled with compelling characters. I absolutely loved it!
Charming, clever, and enchanting, The Lost Frost Girl is a modern fairy tale about discovering yourself and the place you truly belong.
The sympathetic Angel and Bavar both deal with life-shattering tragedy, but Wilson’s story is full of hope and spirit. An imaginative story about magic, friendship, and healing.
2018-08-14
In an everyday modern school, a girl who lost her parents to monsters meets a monstrously strange boy.
Bavar's a friendless, "sallow" boy in an ordinary school. He has a powerful ability to avoid notice until he meets Angel, a new girl living with a foster family. Angel, who misses her dead parents constantly, sees through Bavar's reality-warping glamour to his uncanny reality: he's 7 feet tall with pointed teeth. Bavar, she discovers, lives in a gargoyle-adorned Gothic pile of a house where he fights massive winged beasts. Bavar's gruesome opponents, in fact, look exactly like the fell creatures who killed Angel's parents last year. Though Bavar wants to avoid the fate of all in his magical family—spending a lifetime battling the poison-clawed raksasa—Angel proposes a more permanent solution. In Bavar's sentient home, peopled by his loving aunt and uncle and the (both hair-raising and supportive) talking portraits of his ancestors, they seek answers. The growing humor and affection between these two awkward protagonists create an appealing contrast with the choppy, gloomy prose. Ham-handed Americanization of this novel (first published in England as A Far Away Magic) has left the setting a muddle, with American vocabulary inconsistently plunked into British-sounding sentences. Bavar and his family are white-appearing in their human guises; Angel is white.
A solid friendship tale for fans of eerie fantasy. (Fantasy. 10-12)
