Midnight in the Snow: Lose Yourself in a Winter Wonderland love story to thaw the coldest heart

Another great read by Karen Swan, one of my favourite authors. This book was set in the world of snowboarding, and to a lesser extent surfing, both of which use similar skills. The two main characters are Clover and Kit. Clover is an award winning documentary maker, currently riding high with her documentary about Cory, a champion surfer who had a terrible accident that ended his career and changed his whole life, due to the actions of fellow champion surfer, Kit. Clover needs to do choose another subject for her next documentary and, through a set of circumstances, ends up shadowing Kit for her next project, who is now staging a comeback in the snowboarding world after he became persona non grata in the surfing world after Cory's accident. Kit has been forced into it through his sponsorship deal, but doesn't want to help at all and is very antagonistic towards Clover, who he feels is partly to blame for everyone hating him. And to be fair Clover was definitely on 'team Cory' to start with. I did find probably the first half of the book quite frustrating, with Kit and his team, and Clover and her team, circling around each other, with lots of simmering tension. But as the story went on I just got sucked into the book, as there had obviously been more going on than met the eye between Cory and Kit, which eventually (very slowly) revealed itself as Clover and her team investigated Kit and his side of the story, albeit with absolutely no help from Kit at all. The setting itself, set mainly in the Austrian Alps, sounded beautiful, and even though I know nothing about snowboarding, I really enjoyed the storyline. Definitely a slow build up, with lots of underlying tensions, but the story just gathered pace as it went on and was one of those books that I just had to read one more page to find out what actually did happen. Highly recommended.

Really enjoyed this book. Couldn't put it down to be honest. This genre at its best.