The Ice Palace

A story about two 11 year old girls in a rural Scandinavian village. One day one of the girls wanders into a half frozen waterfall and goes missing.

The story is pretty short and there is not a lot happening story wise. Most of the book is about describing the cold wintery landscape in a very lyrical matter.

I know that the main characters are 11 year old girls and I'm the furthest from that particular mindset, but their cryptic conversations and the way they handled things made me want to scream at them.

All dialogues in the book are very cryptic and more akin to poems, which is really fitting with the lyrical landscape description mentioned above and the overall writing style. But in the end it all blurred together and I was skipping more and more passages.

It started interesting and the part which describes how the girl wanders off and goes deeper and deeper into the wilderness is cleverly written, but everything after that frustrated me.