What an odd little duck to have in the YA section at my library. Midwinterblood follows seven different lifetimes for two souls who yearn to be together. The timeline goes backwards, which is a super cool concept, but unfortunately when I got to the end I did not find much to make me care about their struggle over eons. Lots of creepy weird blood sacrifices, people who don't age, halluecineginic orchids, and Vikings. Also, sometimes the souls were brother and sister, or child and adult, so I didn't know if it was simply being together or a sexual/love relationship they were striving for.

Quick read, thought provoking, but I wish there was a bit more meat to the story. I like to feel something about the characters I read about and I didn't really here.