I really had no idea about this until quite near the end and so, early on in the story, I decided to trust no one. Valor does manage an escape but the real tangle in this book comes from decisions about who to trust and who is an informer. The cold is unbearable and the writing so powerful I felt frozen too. The worst is when she and her sister are both placed inside ice domes. If you are caught with contraband items you will be punished.
you will be transferred to the adult prison. You will eat when you are told to, you will sleep when you are told to, you will work when you are told to. " You will work in the mines, or anywhere else in the prison we tell you to. Once inside the prison Valor discovers it is far worse than she imagined.
She is such a skilled archer she actually has no intention of killing him and her arrow strikes just to one side but this is enough to send every guard in a race across the city to capture her. Valor picks the state occasion when the music box is to be returned (it has been stolen but the ceremony is proceeding) to attempt an assassination of the Prince. This is a terrifying place with huge tattooed guards and no one has escaped in 300 years but Valor knows she must commit a crime, be captured, be sent to the prison and then she will rescue her sister. The treasure has been stolen and Valor's twin sister Sasha has been found guilty and sent to the notorious prison built to hold children under 16 called Tyur'ma. Political stability in Demidova relies on the return of an elaborate music box to the rightful owners from the neighboring kingdom of Magadanskya. I actually gasped out loud at one point when Valor faces yet another terrible danger. Prisoner of Ice and Snow is simply a splendid and utterly engrossing book. I have said this on previous occasions but I just marvel at the inventiveness of authors and the power of words to take the reader right inside a scene.
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