#32 Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire, Amber Benson (Narrator)

This is a sequel of sorts but for once you don’t need to read the first book to understand what is going on. The main characters are not even in the first book.  So don’t worry that you will miss anything. The only thing is that it will spoil what happened in book one.  Melanie and Harry have been best friends since they first met.  Melanie has a heart condition but that hasn’t stopped Harry from being her friend even when some of the other kids have hung back. But everything changes one day in high school when they both drop dead at the same time and yet rise as if nothing happened to them.   Going to the Homecoming dance plans go out the window when a very young Jack Frost comes to Melanie to tell her she is a potential Queen of Winter, and she needs to leave now to head to the coronation.  Harry picks her up for the dance and finds out he is a potential King of Summer, but no Corn Jenny has come to tell him this. Melanie finds out that her dad has been killing the Jack Frosts that have come in the past to try and teach her to be Queen and no one can figure out why Harry’s Corn Jenny has never met him but the two are on the run now and heading to the coronation. It seems the seasons need people to be personification of them and there are always lots of candidates to take the job but due to the wrong person having the job as King of Winter he stayed in his position for three hundred years.  Now the two are on the run meeting other contenders for the crown and hopefully a few allies to get them where they are going. 

I really liked the story and this universe, and I want to see more. It is nice to know that I’m not sure what I will see next in this story universe.  The audio version of the book was great and I’m happy I listened to it as well as read it. 

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley