What readers think of In the Midst of Winter, plus links to write your own review.

A monster blizzard has shut down New York City in January 2016, and in the process three very different people are brought together—and their lives will forever change because of it. Their stories unfold: Evelyn, a 20-something undocumented immigrant who somehow survived the horrors of the MS-13 gang in her native Guatemala; Lucia, a 63-year-old from Chile with her own chilling stories of forced exile; and Richard, a 60-year-old American professor at NYU with four cats who prides himself on his routine, uneventful life that works to bury his tragic past. Throw into the mixing bowl, a murder mystery and a very touching love story, and stir cautiously because you will be pulled in to this delightful batch of literary delicacies by accomplished author Isabel Allende.

By turns heartrending, shocking, brutal and even somewhat humorous, this is a tale for our times if there ever was one.

Hits all the current social issues including binary sex identification, thus guaranteeing an audience... implausible plot, commercial fiction, unexpected from this author

While there is much to like in this novel in regards to character development and descriptions of location, relevance to current political climate, I could not get past the main plot which I found to be distracting and unrealistic. It's a shame the story wasn't unified in a way that was believable.