Review: The Color of Snow
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2012
The Color of Snow by Brenda Stanley is a story about a young woman coming of age amidst a strange childhood. Secrets and lies are what she finds out her young life has been. Her mother has died, her father has kept her hidden from a normal life to protect her. The story is told in two different time frames, one of Sophia telling us of her life with her father, the other is of her father as a young man and his love affair with Sophia's mother. Through these two different narratives we find that because of people's superstitions, a young woman's life is not as it should be. After her father is arrested and she is taken from the only home she knows and sent to her mother's parents to live. She is a pariah amongst her own peers, she is the beautiful girl who lived in a cage, her mother died when she was born, she still loves a young man who was one of the only friends she had growing up, her father is in prison for just trying to protect his daughter and there is a curse on her, that was cast by a scared and angry grandmother. Wow, that is a lot for a young woman to be able to absorb and deal with, but deal with it she does.This book was a little slow going at first but once I figured out who the characters were I started getting into the story. A heartbreaking story that has the reader wondering what will happen next. I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend it not only for the YA audience but for adults as well..