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Steady as the Snow Falls by Lindy Zart
Published by Chameleon Writer on March 29th 2016
Pages: 304
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Buy Amazon Paperback Goodreads Hired by a stranger to write his life story, Beth Lambert arrives at a seemingly abandoned house in the hills near her hometown. She knows the rumors, she knows it is dangerous and unwise. But she needs the money. And she needs to prove that it isn't a mistake to think she can make a career out of a dream. Inside the house of emptiness and coldness, she finds a man with curt words and haunted eyes. He is eccentric, odd. Brutish, even. He scares her, and he intrigues her. When she learns who he is, she wants to run. But there is the money, and there is the dream, and eventually, there is simply Harrison Caldwell. The haunted man with the black, ugly truth.
Hold on a minute while I finish wiping the tears from my eyes… Ok, at least they aren’t blocking my view of the screen while I type this.
I love this story. I love the hesitant fight to keep from feeling the pull. The resistance to need someone else pulls you into the story. Most of all, and probably the part that hits home most, two lost souls who feel they will never get to live their dreams. Their dreams had been taken and squashed by others but together they feel free. Its not hard to see how that would bind them together; however, they weren’t bound in pity, pain, or sympathy. These two lost souls found themselves in each other- in LOVE.
The “conflict” in the story, as Beth calls it, is a stark reminder that hidden in the shadows true monsters lurk. Monsters that scare people and hurt others. Most people however ignore the monster as long as it doesn’t effect them. People forget daily that others lives are being ravaged by monsters that lurk inside them. My heart hurts for them and I love that this story reminds us all of our own mortality.
Steady as the Snow Falls is a beautiful love story that obviously made me cry, but it also has you smiling at the same time. Beth takes a job to write the biography of a person she doesn’t know and has never met. She’s being paid a ridiculous amount and for that she will only work a few hours a day. Sounds too good to be true, but its a risk she’s willing to take.
Once she knows the true identity of her subject, she is wary and uncomfortable. The problem is she’s not sure why she’s so uncomfortable. Is it him or the “monster” that makes her so shaky? Is it the thoughts of a future swirling in her head or the possibility of none? – Reviewed by Becky Rendon
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