This story is a very quick read, I think it took me a bit over an hour to finish it. I enjoyed it for what it was but wish it had been a bit more complex. Overall this was a simple and magical middle grade read. I enjoyed it but it’s pretty straight-forward and easy to predict. This was a nice quick and simple read with some magic in it. It was a cute story that was decently written.
The story deals a lot with friendship, over domineering parents, and finding one’s own way in the face of disability. The story has a very fairy tale type of feel to it. This is a fairly simple middle grade story about a girl with an allergy to sun who makes friends with a boy in a coma and finds a secret ice garden in a world connected to the playground near her house.
Some of the story was a bit too simplistic for me. I was looking for a simple and magical middle grade read and this book fit that niche pretty well. I got this book through the Amazon Vine program to review. And her presence there could be destroying its very existence.” This is her place: a Narnia with flying elephant mice and ice apples with shining gold liquid inside.īut Jess soon discovers that she’s not alone. Beyond, she discovers a garden made entirely of ice. One night, tired of peeking at the other children beyond her curtained house, she sneaks out to explore the empty playground she’s longed to visit. But nothing is as real as the world she’ll find. She’s trained it to feel as real as it possibly can, especially in the stories she writes for Davie - the young boy in a coma who is her only friend. “Jess’s imagination has always been her best friend.
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