![]() Each is on a journey, both physically and emotionally, for themselves and for the country they left behind. She is refusing to use magic and grieving all the things she has lost and what she has become. Pilar carries the heavy weight of her abusive past and guilt of what she has allowed to happen with her mother. ![]() Mia had broken the second law and the consequences she faces in this book is that she is unable to feel or taste, and she is seeking the feeling of being alive. Mia and Pilar are traveling separately on their own quests. The holidays and their traditions have turned into glossy veneers without the meanings they held to the people who celebrated them. Luumia was colonized and the culture and indigenous peoples living there suppressed. While the first book took place in the river kingdom, which was largely dealing with the oppression of women, this book transports us to a kingdom (or queendom) that has a major problem with colonization, the suppression of indigenous cultures, and cultural appropriation. Both are heading on separate paths to the winter kingdom of Luumia. ![]() ![]() Whereas we only followed Mia in the first book, we now follow both Mia and Pilar in this sequel. TEARS OF FROST is an action-packed and dark fantasy sequel to HEART OF THORNS. ![]()
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