Final Thoughts

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an exciting, emotional adventure.  The book was very interesting and easy to read.  The story line was easy to follow, yet it was constantly changing in order to keep readers on the edge of their seats.  Ivey's writing style drew me in and made me feel for the characters as if the experiences were my own.  I would recommend this book to a girl over a boy because the main characters seem to struggle with relationships and family issues the most (I know that this is a major stereotype that boys do not want to read about family issues and things like that but I do not know many boys that voluntarily pick up this book).  This thought provoking book opened my eyes to how quickly one's life can change and it definitely made me value my family more than I had before.   The novel also made me think deeply about topics such as love, independence, and happiness, which was also an aspect of the book that I liked.  Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it.

I think that it would be interesting if Ivey wrote a sequel to The Snow Child and continued the story of the baby boy's life.  The ending of the book was not ambiguous but it did leave me with some questions about the boy.  If Faina was some sort of magical, snow child then is the boy half snow, half human? Will he melt in the summer just as Faina did?  Will all of the love he receives in his new life melt him away just as it did to his mom? Or is the boy completely human and the upcoming summer poses no threat? Without a sequel, I will never know.