I finally decided to give it a try and I am happy to say it fully lived up to everything expectation I had! I didn't want all my expectations to be crushed because this book sounded seriously up my alley. As the year ticks by, the rooms begin to disappear, and Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf’s enchantment before her time is up, otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.Įcho North has been on my shelf for awhile but I was always a bit scared to read it because it sounded TOO good. When centuries-old secrets unfold, Echo discovers a magical library full of books-turned-mirrors, and a young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. In his enchanted house beneath a mountain, each room must be sewn together to keep the home from unraveling, and something new and dark and strange lies behind every door.

But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: If she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf-the same creature who attacked her as a child.

(Jan.Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Agent: Sarah Davies, Greenhouse Literary. Meyer (Beneath the Haunting Sea) refreshes the familiar framework with additional fairy tale elements-“Cupid and Psyche,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Tam Lin” among them-producing a compelling, satisfying romantic adventure with metafictional undertones. But in her efforts to save the wolf from falling prey to the sorceress who cursed him, Echo discovers complicated depths to their shared history and the beast’s enchantment. Following the tale’s tradition, Echo grows close to the wolf over the course of the year less predictably, she finds friends, such as lovely princess Mokosh and the charming Hal, while delving into the stories contained within the library’s enchanted mirrors. Echo Alkaev must spend one year with the wolf in his mysterious “house under the mountain,” whose myriad rooms, packed with wonders and terrors, shift at random and require constant maintenance lest they vanish. In this reimagining of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” a young woman ostracized for the facial scars she received from a wolf attack finds new purpose when she bargains with that same wolf to save her father.

Echo north by joanna ruth meyer