Midwinterblood Analysis

It's pretty rare that you'll read a book or watch a movie where the setting of it isn't important. Could the Fresh Prince live anywhere except Bel Air? We don't think so. But in Midwinterblood, Ble...

Midwinterblood is a bit tricky when it comes to the narrative point of view. Okay, it's a whole lot tricky. In each of the seven stories, a new narrator appears along with a fresh way of looking at...

Midwinterblood covers seven different stories in seven different time periods, so it's fitting that there are a whole bunch of different genres in squeezed in there, too. Trust us: We could add in...

Sedgwick loves to throw all kinds of contradictory emotions at us in Midwinterblood, and his attitude toward these things falls into two categories. On the one hand, the story is so lyrical and rom...

The writing in Midwinterblood is so simple and straightforward, that at times it's even stark. Take this passage for example:Everyone gathered then at the side of the longhouse, upon which were wri...

The title of this book is pretty creepy, but it's not just looming there on the cover to freak us out. It's actually inspired by a famous painting called Midvinterblot. In the novel, this is the pa...

This one ends on a bit of a bummer note. Or does it? Just as Eric Seven is about to be sacrificed (a.k.a. murdered) to bring fertility to Blessed Island, Merle thinks quickly and manages to save hi...

Since Midwinterblood is written for young adults, the text is super readable and engaging—it's designed to captivate teens, after all—but this doesn't mean it's child's play. See, the story is...

Since Midwinterblood doesn't just tell one story, but seven, it doesn't always flow super smoothly through a classic plot analysis. Here, we focus mainly on the first and last stories, which take p...

In real life, Midvinterblot is six feet high and fourteen feet long. Massive. Just like it's subject matter. (Source.) Because Carl Larsson's painting is über famous in Sweden, there's actually a...

For an epic love story, Midwinterblood is pretty light on the sexy times. The hottest thing that happens is when Eric imagines his lips brushing up against Merle's neck. So scandalous. Sure, there'...

"The Lay of Hakon" (6.4.31): Leif Longfoot's song celebrating the victories of the Viking ships is based on this Old Norse poem. (Source.)"The Unquiet Grave" (5.7.22, 5.8.11): Merle recites one hal...