![]() ![]() The strongest element of The Sisters of the Winter Wood is definitely the setting. ![]() ![]() Though The Sisters of the Winter Wood is young adult literature and suffers from some of the problems endemic to that type of writing-side characters making nonsensical, plot-servicing decisions, teenaged point-of-view characters being angsty teens and too much repetition of characters’ thoughts and emotions-the book has enough suspense and character development to keep the pages turning. Rena Rossner’s novel is set in Dubossary, a city in current-day Moldova, in approximately the year 1900 and features two sisters, the bookish Liba and the beautiful Laya, as co-protagonists. The Sisters of the Winter Wood takes the rich and violent history of 19th-century Jews living in the Pale of Settlement and mixes in a bit of magic and a few fairy tale tropes to weave an engaging story of two sisters struggling to enter adulthood. ![]()
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