A review by tregina
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

5.0

This is another book that I'm not sure how to talk about, as though I'm missing the vocabulary to express what it made me think and how it made me feel. There's a fascinating intensity throughout the whole thing, whether it was coming from the young girls or from the ice palace itself or the tension in the community after what happened. (I also have an intense fear of iceburgs which, while not directly relevant, almost certainly feed into the tension I was feeling). Ultimately, it made me think about how relationships and other people are hard to understand when we're young, but that's also when we're at our most fearless. Honestly, I just can't stop thinking about it.