Inspired by the tale of Sleeping Beauty, Belle de Glace is a novel that will please no doubt fans of the Black Moon collection. Recalling Bal Frost in New York for its futuristic and sterile world, past and future mingle in this book of children's literature to slight look of science fiction. Flashbacks are incorporated into the main plot, which significantly boosts the novel. For Rose is the passive heroine par excellence. Fortunately, his lack of character gradually fades and Rose progresses to take one's own decisions. And if the characters of this novel seem rather conventional, sometimes they surprise us, as is the case with the character of Otto, which will mark the spirits, as much by the uniqueness of its nature and his humor and kindness .
The world imagined by Anna Sheehan is interesting insofar as it raises many issues, like human ethical: far can science go beyond his rights before? Is it has the right to be free when you are from a scientific experiment? Belle de Glace is a novel at all relative complexity, a beautiful ode to life, encouraging to say to go to the end of his dreams.