Until she was 10-years-old, she lived with her parents and older sister on a farm on the other side of the glacier. Unlike Ginn, Eðna did not grow up in the city. But the thing is, Brosa doesn’t know about her past. And I particularly liked seeing his interactions with Eðna, leading her along quietly, getting her used to their world and to him. When the story begins, he is a pretty dark personality, but as we get further along as he connects with Eðna, his true personality shines through, and it’s wonderful to see. He is definitely a pretty happy guy, even if he is depressed and suicidal the deaths of his wife and child. I absolutely adore Brosa and have since the first book. While she never stops wanting to go back to the future (hee!), she adapts well to the time, and is definitely attracted to (and attractive to) Brosa. Ginn, however, is not the woman Eðna remembers Ginn has been re-shaped by her new life with power over everyone around her – and Eðna ends up as the unwilling long-term guest of the household. He mistakes Eðna for a spirit.īrosa brings Eðna into the homestead, where she meets Ginn for the first time.

Brosa has never really recovered from the death of his wife and child and when Eðna finds him, he has literally been sleeping next to the unearthed bones of his late wife, waiting for death to find him. For those who haven’t read Beautiful Wreck, we have already met the easy-going Brosa, brother to Heirik the chief. In the process, though, she stumbles across Brosa. Unlike Ginn, she finds her way out by herself, walking in the general direction of ‘away’ from the water. Like Ginn, Eðna is dumped into the freezing ocean. We start out following Eðna Jonsdottir, time traveler from the future, as she follows Ginn, the heroine from the first book, into the past. Maybe that anticipation was my downfall, though, because while I enjoyed the story, it didn’t completely blow me away. And I was so excited to read So Wild A Dream, set in the same world as Beautiful Wreck, that when I got the chance to review it, I was literally breathless. Last year, we raved about her novella, Tress.

Two years ago, I declared Larissa Brown’s Beautiful Wreck was one of the Best Books of 2014.

Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown