Seasons of the Storm

Gr 9 Up–At the precipice of death, Jack can choose to do nothing or he can choose to live—with strings attached, of course. Jack Sommers decides to live, and he becomes Winter. Each person is assigned a season to control the change of weather on Earth, and that change is violent. The incoming season must kill the outgoing season, e.g., Summer kills Spring, Autumn kills Summer, and so on. There are rules that must be followed or the consequences are severe, and can include final death. But Jack is not good at following rules, especially the one forbidding seasons from fraternizing with one another. Jack has fallen in love with Fleur, the Spring who kills him every year. Cosimano, in the first book of a duology, takes a familiar concept and adds a wild twist; what Jack and Fleur do not realize is that their rebellion is going to alter everything. And through the story, readers will experience the common occurrence of the seasons changing as something magical and mythical.