The book Snow Like Ashes, written by Sara Raasch, is an extraordinary book about the eight refugees that are trying to liberate the rest of their people and get the pieces for their conduit, a locket that contains their kingdom’s magic. Sara Raasch was born and raised in Ohio, but currently resides in Virginia. She graduated from Wright State University and has written a trilogy that includes Snow Like Ashes. In this book, she follows the Winterians through their journey of hardship, betrayal, and love. The Winterians cling onto their hope, “The promise we refugees always make one another before going on missions, whenever people come back bleeding and hurt, whenever things go badly and we’re huddling together in terror. We’ll be better … someday.”, it’s something they believe in even as their numbers slowly dwindle. The novel starts with the return of Sir and four other refugees, Greer, …show more content…
This leads to a war between Spring and Cordell in the capital of Bithai. During the war, many died and Meira was captured by a Spring henchman and brought to one to the concentration camps where all of the Winterians were being kept. Meira meets these three siblings in the camp that help her in the camp and gave her hope to liberate all the prisoners. Soon, Prince Theron lets himself get captured but has both the armies of Autumn and Cordell waiting outside the gates. Meira causes a revolt in the camp and is able to open the gate to the camp and the troops come flooding in. Meira is left to face Spring’s king, Angra, during the her time in the camp, she finds out she is the rightful heir to the throne and tries her best to defeat Angra. Even though Angra wasn’t defeated, all of the prisoners were liberated and soon they all moved back to the Kingdom of Winter, where Meira prepares to fight Angra again whenever the time