Review: An idyllic childhood?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2013
First off, I received a complimentary copy of this title in exchange for my review.  Snow Day by Dan Maurer was an excellent read.  It's not long - I read it in the course of two evenings.  This novella brought back a lot of childhood memories.  Oh, how we looked forward to snow days.  I also remember that my sister and I could run around town and there were never any fears of anything bad happening to us and that's really what this story is about.  The story starts with a horrifying discovery and then backtracks to the beginning and leads up to the discovery and the aftermath.  Snow Day is wonderfully written and the descriptions so vivid that you can easily imagine being right there with Billy, the main character in the story.  I loved that in the afterword, the author tells how that a comment by a childhood friend about having an idyllic childhood is how he came up with the story as he posed the question, did we really?  The story did not exactly have a happy ending but the ending was very satisfying.  If you love horror with a touch of paranormal, I would highly recommend this title.  I cannot wait to read more of Dan Maurer's work.