A Perfect Snow

I'm not sure why I didn't quite like this book. Perhaps it's just that the redemption of the main character feels uneven--it's meant to be a book that raises social awareness in the teens that read it (I'm assuming) but doesn't quite go far enough in painting the emotional and intellectual journey from one extreme to the other. His change of heart felt somewhat unreal and vague compared to the vitriolic hate that is quite strongly portrayed in the narrator at the beginning and through other characters throughout.

A simple story that can be read in one sitting. When Ben Campbell meets the spirited Eden Taylor, whose car is stuck in a snowdrift, he has no idea of the foreboding in her words. Since his family's move, Ben and his brother have taken part in secretive and dangerours activities of the local hate group. He begins to realise how dangerours his actions are and the novella centres around him finding out if it is too late to save himself and his younger brother David.