The previous review has been ready to go for a few weeks but here is a brand new one:
Firstly, the proof copy I read wasn't particularly well formatted (chapter titles mingling with the starts of sentences was slightly confusing at times). What I did like about Snowflake was that I got a real sense of place about the town and its inhabitants who are not entirely there by choice, and the fact that when the inevitable happens at the end (no, I won't say what but it isn't totally a surprise), we are only given a hint of What Happened as Sedgwick refers to it. Some parts of it did seem a tiny bit random- Socrates the Goat for example whilst interesting enough in his own right doesn't really add much to the plot as it develops
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it overall, and I think I will re-read it when its published to see if my interpretation of the end is, as I think it is now, a lot more subtle than I initially thought an hour ago, when I finished ( in which case, I'd probably round up to 4 stars rather than 3). but as it stands , this is not one of Marcus Sedgwick's best, and definitely falls short of the wonderful Monsters We Deserve , for example.
Thanks to the publishers for the opportunity to review this
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