After having found success with the saga Tear makerItalian writer Erin Doom returns to bookstores with a new enemies-to-lovers romance, titled The Heart is like Snow. A love story filled with mystery and tension, which is sure to shake you up.
« It seems that the heart is like snow. Bold, silent, capable of melting with a little heat. For me, the heart is like snow because with a little darkness, it turns into ice. Ivy grew up among frozen lakes and virgin forests, surrounded by the snow she loves so much. When she finds herself orphaned and forced to move to California, all she can think about is what she left behind.
Very quickly, Ivy is taken in by her godfather John. Her son Mason is far from the young woman’s memories: she discovers his piercing eyes, his dark and tormented face. And when Mason smiles at her sinisterly for the first time, she understands that their cohabitation will be more difficult than expected. Will Ivy’s heart, white as snow, be able to overcome the cold of winter and bloom again? »
Forced proximity, source of great tension and mystery
They hate each other, but are forced to live under the same roof. This classic trope that we often find in romances always works perfectly! Erin Bloom already used it in Tear maker and uses it again in The Heart is like Snow to bring tension, mystery, but also a certain toxicity.
Just like Nica and Rigel, who were welcomed by the same host family, Ivy and Mason find themselves forced to live in the same house from one day to the next. Worse, Mason finds himself forced to share not only his villa, but also his father, his school, his friends…his life. From then on, he will be openly hostile towards the young girl, who will question herself more and more intensely about the origin of the hatred she inspires in him…and us too!
In addition to the romantic tension a you stifling desire who fill the house at each of their meetings, the difficult relationship of the two heroes is a real enigmawhich keeps you in suspense throughout the pages. Why does Mason want Ivy so much? What did she do to him to make him treat her this way? A question that Erin Doom takes time to answer in the book, always arousing our curiositywhich then grows until it imploses. The author’s bet is successful: not understanding the adolescent’s behavior drives us completely crazy and therefore triggers a real addiction to the novelwhich we can’t help but devour at full speed.
Characters full of secrets
In addition to the mystery surrounding Ivy and Mason, The Heart is like Snow is full of many secrets which do not relate to the romance between the two protagonists, but above all to the troubled past of the high school girl’s father. American of origin, the latter had moved to Canada 17 years earlier, while his name made the headlines of the American press… Why? You’ll have to read the novel to the end to find out.
Moreover, this stormy history also places Ivy in a dangerous situation, worthy of true spy novels. She then finds herself confronted with issues that are beyond her control and in the face of which she finds herself completely helpless. However, she can count on her godfather John to protect her, although he also hides certain important things from her. Where is his wife? Why doesn’t anyone ever mention Mason’s mother? So many questions that pique our interest as well as that of Ivy, who will sooner or later discover the truth.
Erin Bloom’s delicate pen to probe hearts
As inspired as it is refined, Erin Bloom’s pen here redoubles its softness to paint the portrait of the discreet Ivy, who is far from resembling the colorful Californians of her new school. More introverted, the Canadian high school student stays in the background and speaks little. She is more in theobservation only in action, which requires all the sensitivity of the writer to describe the vivid emotions that bubble under her diaphanous skin.
Much more is happening in the heart of the heroine than in the novel itself, which offers a touching read, dissecting as well the feelings linked to a budding love than those which arise from a difficult griefhaving broken his heart forever.
Discover The heart is like snow, the new enemies-to-lovers romance from the author of Tear makeravailable now in bookstores!
