This review was written by the Beautiful (and Angst lovin') Snshyne
Frozen Spring by Meadow Cliffdiver
Original Author's Description: Bella moves to Forks for a change of scenery after leaving her fiancé. She didn't expect to find that her inherited house would throw her into a world filled with mystic secrets and vengeful spirits. Will she end up a casualty? AU/AH, M
I was dipping into the repertoire of SFFR family reviewers and I came out with Frozen Spring by MeadowC. This story is so much more than I expected based on the author's description alone. MeadowC takes the already supernatural characters of Twilight as vamps and wolves and transforms them into a completely different supernatural realm all together. One of evil rituals, spirits, and haunted houses. Cue eerie scary tunes. I kid, this fic is NOT scary, but it is definitely mysterious. The ghosts aren't your average sheet wearing, fly through the sky, walk through walls ectoplasm. Instead, each spirit is unique in their abilities and restrictions and it will keep you guessing as to how it will come into play. Similar to Canon, their human characteristics and circumstances translate into their afterlife.
The move to her Aunt Esme's old house is nothing short of eventful from pretty much the moment Bella steps foot back into Forks, WA. Twenty-two years ago her mother left it with her out of fear. Except in this story, Charlie follows them and they live happily every after in Phoenix. Right? Perhaps, not so much. Up through her early teens, Bella would visit with Charlie and always felt a natural pull to the old family home in Forks and takes Charlie's offer to move into the house after a love-life gone wrong. I have to tell you, I laughed at the way that the failed loves plays out in the story; it's highly amusing. On those summer trips, Bella learns more and more about her parents past and the history of the old Victorian home, which only serves to make her more susceptible to her serendipitous fate.
As if falling in love with a vampire in Canon wasn't hard enough, Bella has to go and fall for a ghost with a serious case of the guilties and a set of inconvenient limitations that have the tendency to separate them. Being inexplicably drawn to each other opens up Bella's eyes to the realm of the supernatural and sets her path to communicate with and help those that fall into her path unexpectedly. With the help of Alice, another human with the ability to sense and communicate with the supernatural, and the rest of her new found friends, Bella will embark on a mystery to explore true love and fight the evil that threatens them all.
MeadowC’s story is beautifully compelling. You can tell she loves the characters she is writing about by the way she makes reading about them fun. The love is felt passionately between her characters, even between those of different universes. This story does not have a lot of lemons, but I think it has room for them. Do you think it’s possible to consummate a relationship between a human and a ghost? I hope so because the Bella/Edward pairing is not the only pair that consists of a ghost and a human. I hope you will treat yourself to Frozen Spring. I know you would enjoy it!
You can find MeadowC over on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/meadowc
Meadow has been known to visit and post teasers over on the Frozen Spring twilighted thread: http://www.twilighted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7127&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
Check out the story here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5428177/1/Frozen_Spring
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