Cassie brings a little bit more to the table. In the original story, the heroine saves the polar bear through her exceptional laundry skills. It’s a wonderful mix, especially when Cassie and Bear find an elegant way to bring their talents together, using Cassie’s scientific expertise to help Bear’s magical purpose along. Durst also throws an interesting touch of religion into her explanation of Bear’s strange powers. Myth and science are married in many ways in this novel – most literally in the actual marriage between Cammie, an 18-year-old arctic scientist, and Bear, a giant mystical polar bear. But if you’re willing to suspend a little disbelief, you will find a wonderful love story and an epic adventure in Ice.ĭurst’s take brings in some unexpected elements. The strangeness of this particular story is brought into sharp relief by Durst’s choice of a modern setting, and it can be jarring – both for the reader and the characters. So it’s no surprise that this story has already been tackled multiple times, most memorably in Edith Pattou’s exquisite East. Now, the original is a strange and compelling story that leaves a lot of strange gaps in the plot – gaps that are just begging to be filled in and explored by an enterprising YA author.
Durst’s novel is a re-telling of the fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. This is not a story that pulls punches with the absurdity of it’s premise. Right now you’re either pulling a face at me or you’re hooked, right?
A conversation about metaphysics between a teenage scientist and her husband, who is a giant talking polar bear.
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