"There is a light we can't always see, and there is a world we can't always be. If there is a dark, then we shouldn't doubt, and there is a light, don't let it go out." 
 -U2, Song for Someone. 
 My reaction 
 This book was one of few that made me feel the characters and setting. I swear the Siberian setting made me feel colder. The only other thing that made me feel that way was listening to Anna Netrebko's Russian Album for the first time. It was a bit graphic, gravel spraying into dead bodies and all that, but otherwise I loved it. It brought me in from the first page, something no other book has done (most grow on me or get worse). My one small grievance is that the romance between Lina and Andrius should have been more developed.