If you love fairy tales, and magic and heart felt story telling that will get you lost in worlds you don’t want to leave, and heart wrenching secrets that will make you happy and sad all at the same time. It’s filled with vivid prose and world building and just so much goodness, and magic, and love, I just can’t even….Īll I can say is pick up this book when it comes out. Hal, the love interest, the tortured and lonely white wolf, Echo, the heroine, and so many lovable side characters, I can’t choose. It’s filled with likable and relateablecharacters that felt like friends. It’s filled with so many different worlds that I just wanted to dive into and stay there forever. This book is filled with so many layers, it’s impossible to describe them all here, but suffice it to say, that if you let it, this story will weave itself into an incredible tapestry around you.

But more importantly, she finds a resiliency and strength in herself she never knew she possessed, the capacity to love beyond belief, and the courage to do what’s right even in the most dangerous of circumstances. With an enchanted house in each room a different magical wonder, woven together like a tapestry a magical library, with books explored through mirrors that one could travel into and experience, the four winds, a witch, a goddess and, a dreadful curse Echo finds this world, on the edge of magic itself, dark, mysterious, lonely, full of peril, and wonder, and fantastical beyond belief. She is soon launched into a magical world she never knew existed. Desperate and scared, and propelled by the mystery surrounding him, she does as she is asked. There is only one rule, you cannot look upon me at night. Live with me for a year in my enchanted house under the mountain, and I will save your father. A deal that will define and change the rest of her life.

In order to save him she is sucked into a deal, by the same talking white wolf which disfigured her face and whom, she saved years before. It’s basic premise is that one day after her father leaves town and mysteriously disappears, Echo Alkaev goes to look for him. This fable is a brilliant and magical retelling of a Norwegian tale called East of the Sun West of the Moon with references to other fairytales smattered throughout including Tam Lin and Psyche.

This tale captivated me and wouldn’t let go. Would you all like to know what kept me up, new years eve, until 1 am? It was not the obvious fact that it was new year’s eve, and staying up until 12am was what we are all supposed to do, right? No! It was the simple reason, that I was spellbound and entranced, by this beautiful fairy tale of a book, and could not get away until I knew what happened.

Echo north joanna ruth meyer