I found this book to be a little too brief for me to become invested in the characters. It whipped along so quickly that it was over before I had really taken any of it in. The premise was interesting, if creepy, but did not crystallize for me into a solid read. ( )

Gene O'Neill has an excellent imagination for the unusual story line. Frozen Shadows is a very good story of a man that must deal with an evil entity that snatches souls when he is a child. As an adult, he must face that entity again. Wild Woman was also a good story that began with a lonely, unpopular young girl who meets another young "ugly" girl. When they become separated children begin to disappear in the town and her life becomes truly miserable until they met again as adults. I do believe that he could have had excellent stories if he had fleshed out the characters and scenes a bit more. Sometimes I had to stop and go back to see if I had missed something as there were places where I felt the story had lost me. I would definitely read him again though.

I won this book through Goodreads and agreed to give it an honest review. This is a flip book with two stories in one book, I read Wild Woman by Chris Marr in this Journalstone book VII Series and as time permits will review the next.

Jule is a lonely seven year old with terrible patches of dry skin and oozing sores on her body and her classmates nicknamed her Ghoulie Julie. Julie is the out cast in her family when her beautiful sister is born and her dad dies. She stumbles through the woods to find a giant naked girl with her eyes sewn shut and she raced home to get scizzors to cut the thread. Afterwards the giant and small girl become friends and promise to meet at the cliffs the next day, but Julie gets sick and can't go until she's well, but Yani doesn't return. Then young girls go missing...

I won this book through Goodreads and agreed to give it a honest review. FROZEN SHADOWS is the second flip book and I'm so glad it was read next! Sean O'Donnell went to live with his grandparents after his dad had been killed in the war and his mother's recent death when she was involved in a car crash. At age six, he barely knew them but he soon felt comfortable in the little town of Sutter's Creek. At eight he had a beautiful girl claim he was her boyfriend and he discovered a mysterious man that cast no shadow. Then, young kids suddenly became ill and he and Bell knew that Mr. Black was responsible so with the help of his gramps the three set out to catch the creepy man.. ( )

Two really fun books. Not sure how this works, why there were two separate books in one...but I really enjoyed them both. Unique plots, likeable characters...what more could you ask for? ( )

There were two books in this edition. They were both very different and I quite enjoyed them.
Frozen shadows by Gene O'Neill tells the story of Sean and Bell. Twice they encounter an ageless gypsy who steals shadows from children.
WildWoman by Chris Marrs is a story of Julie and her friend Yani, who lives in the woods. I really liked the storytelling in this one. I could totally relate to Ghoulie Julie. ( )