She’s got an earring in her nose, and she’s wearing heavy makeup. Her hair is chopped short and dyed black. Now she comes back once a year to visit her dad at Christmas and New Year’s.Įvan hasn’t heard from Lucy in months when she lets him know she’s at her dad’s home again. That was before Lucy’s parents split up and she moved with her mother from New England to Georgia. They used to spend hours playing together and creating stories and drawings for an imaginary place they call Aelysthia. Wintertown is perfect for anyone who loves a feel good book on a cold wintery day.Evan and Lucy have been best friends ever since they can remember.

What I mean by this is one moment it would be romance the next it would be accepting change, yet they did not combine it.

However I didn’t love that the overall theme of the book kept changing. I liked how there was a lot of growth in the characters and the change between Lucy and Evans’ feelings about each other. Winter Town is told from two different perspectives, and has Evans comic drawings between each chapter.

So what, exactly, is Lucy hiding? What happened to her over the last year that could potentially break her and Evan apart? Lucy seems to fold in on herself, hide under her new exterior and act like a new Lucy. However Evan starts to realize she is her old self deep down. At first Evan and Lucy get off to a bad start. Lucy is like a whole new goth version of herself. This year, when Lucy arrives back in town, she doesn’t look, or act anything like Evan remembers. Every year Evan looks forward to her year round visit at Christmas time. That is until Lucy’s parents divorced and she was forced to move to Atlanta. Evan and Lucy did everything together when they were young: drew comic slides, read lots of fantasy, made up life stories for the grave’s occupants in the neighborhood cemetery, and walked the streets endlessly talking of anything and everything. Winter Town by Stephen Emond, is a novel based around two teens, Evan and Lucy. I love ski racing, snow/winter, and many other fun things. I am 11 years old and live in Ketchum, Idaho. Winter Town by Stephen Emond My name is Jasmine.