Ashlee's Reviews > A Whisper of Solace

I took two whole days to read this. It was a conscious decision because when I read The Headmistress and finished it in the early morning hours of its debut day, I was so disappointed that it was over too soon. I was like a kid who went to Disney and got sick at 10am after too many trips on Space Mountain. This time I vowed that I would not finish it so fast I was left with a book hangover. I didn’t finish too fast but I still have that hangover. Milena McKay’s words flow in a way that not many can match, she leaves you hanging on every word. Her characters are complex and relatable, at times you hate them and want to shake them and at others they make you feel so bad you’ll excuse any poor behavior. Her plots are always complicated in a way that leaves me wondering how the end can possibly be the one I’m hoping to see. A Whisper of Solace follows her other novels with their age gap, ice queen tropes but this is the first told exclusively from the ice queen’s pov and I loved it. I can’t think of any others told like this and it was so exciting to read Neve’s thoughts and feelings. This one also differs in that it starts out with the relationship between Neve and Audrey ending at Neve’s plotting and goes on from there. Milena’s ice queens are some of the best in lesfic, rivaling those from Lee Winter, she has a knack for creating them and I certainly hope she continues.