Finding a Heart of Snow by Ian Sentelik

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At the beginning of time, the Snow Queen fell in love for a human and was betrayed; the pain she felt in her heart killed her and the snow spirits decided to protect themself keeping all their hearts and crystallizing them in a crystal. In this way they were safe from emotions but they couldn't feel anything. Now a spirit of luck steals the crystal and wants to melt it to gain magic, but doing so he will kill all the snow spirits. Shirai, one of the oldest snow spirits was sent to find the luck spirit and instead finds Marmion.

Marmion is an ordinary college student, until this day: he is having the worst day of his life, full of unlucky events. And when he finds a white man with shades of blue in his small apartment, he doesn't think that things can go worst than that: the man is beautiful, but cold as an icicle, and everytime Marmion touches him he risks hypothermia. Not that Shirai wants so much to touch him, since instead he risks to melt away due to the warm from Marmion's body... not a simple situation for wanna-to-be lover.

The story is not so long, 90 pages, but nice. Even if it's a full fantasy story, it's more a fairy tale; the focal point is more the relationship between Marmion and Shirai than the search of the Snowheart crystal; nice the turning of events that allows Marmion and Shirai to be lover, but there is still one thing that I don't understand so well, how they can be together in the long distance: neither of them can live in the other's world, not for forever at least... but maybe I'm trying to be realistic in a fantasy story...

The most interesting thing of this novella is Shirai's character, his physical appearance and what he causes in Marmion. The author gives us plenty of details to imagine him, long waist white silver hair, blue tongue, changing eyes (like a snow storm)... only in the most intimate details he puts a stop, but not only in describing Shirai, also when it's time for Shirai and Marmion to have a private moment together: they have a sex relationship, but it's not something we share with them. We only know that, both for Marmion than Shirai it's their first experience (for Shirai in absolute term).

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