Minor spoilers for book 1 might appear, I try to avoid spoilers of this book.
The second book of The Legend of the Ice People is called Heksejagten (Danish for 'The Witch Hunt') and it picks up 3 years after the first book ends and we hear about Silje and Tengel's lives and their little family as they try to survive in the frozen wilderness. Most of what's happened in those 3 years gets referred to, but not explicitly shown, something that is consistent with the first book; it does a lot of telling and less showing. Usually this is a big no-no, but honestly, this series would be even longer if we didn't sometimes just get a quick walk-through of what's happened so far.
I love with book because of the characters, esecially Sol and the other children, who are now older and more developed. And because I just love Sol, period. And of course, as I hinted in my long review of the first book - which in retrospect might have turned more into a review of the series - Charlotte Meiden gets a bigger role in this book and as I do each time I read this, I can't help but be happy for her. She doesn't just get a bigger role, she gets a second chance. But enough spoilers!
Remember I said that the narrative is a lot of telling and not so much showing? Well, there is one thing that Sandemo does an incredible job at showing and that is the setting. With carefuly chosen words and sentences, she manages to describe the Winter frozen wilderness, the no longer plague-infected city of Trondheim, the damp and rainy forests with it's horrible roads and so many other places vividly and colourfully. I always get lost in the passage about the carriage ride over Dover and through the forests - not because it is long and boring, but because it is beautifully written and so easy to picture.
Maybe I just like walking in forests a little too much.
The sexual tension between Silje and Tengel in the first book is less in this one, probably because they're married and all that. But that doesn't mean that this book lacks sexual tension. I think it is a thing of Sandemos, because you'll notice thoughtout the series, if you read it all, that yes there is usually always a love-story or at least a love-angle to the story. But the physical aspects are not negleted, though I will admit that they are not that full-fledged either. I do believe we've all read way, way more explict scenes than there are in this book and series. What'd you expect, it's from the 1980s.
I'm ending this review with another reccommendation. Read this book. As the series goes along, we will of course move forward in time, and therefore follow the following generations of the Ice People, but this book has the same main characters as the first book. So really, read on. I for one am picking up book 3, Plejedatteren right now. More Sol for me!