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I loved being back in Moning's ruined Dublin. Iced seems to pick up right after Shadowfever, with the city over run with Fae, an Unseelie Prince trapped in ice underneath the abbey, and Chester's as the go-to place for human/fae encounters. However, now we're following 14 year old Dani "Mega" O'Malley as she works with Ryodan to figure what's causing random places around the city to instantly freeze.

Even though this is Dani's book, there are a few chapters from Christian MacKeltar's POV. It was interesting seeing his slow transformation into an Unseelie Prince, but in general his chapters didn't add anything to the story, with the exception of the time Dani was unconscious and unable to narrate. Other than that, he just watches Dani from a rooftop or a tree, pines after her (which was SUPER random and weird), and talks about his penis. I like Christian, but his chapters just did nothing for me. However, Kat, the new Grand Mistress at the abbey, also has some chapters scattered throughout. Her's are very interesting, but I think they'll play a bigger role in the following books.

I'm wondering if Dani's trilogy is all going to follow the there's a problem that gets solved at the end formula. That's how Iced is. There's no over arching conflict that I could identify. Sure there's a cliffhanger ending, but it's a personal problem for Dani, nothing major.

We also get to meet the mysterious Dancer that Dani mentioned to Mac in Fever. He plays a pretty big role in this book, but he has to the flattest character I've ever read. He has no personality at all, and seemed to just be there to be the brains behind Dani's brawn. He's super smart, and figured out a lot of the missing pieces, but that's about all he did. He was a convenience.

I really liked this one, but it's missing something for me that Fever had. Maybe it's that lack of a larger conflict, I'm not sure, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Dani is a great character to follow, but I don't get what appeals her to Christian and Ryodan. In fact, that whole semi-love-triangle thing, was really weird and felt forced. I'm curious to see where that goes though.


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Iced Fever Series Book 6 Karen Marie Moning 9780385344401 Books Reviews

5/5 Hoar Frost King stars

I put off reading this for a long time. I think I was sad that things were pretty much shorn up with Barrons and Mac's story, and I wasn't ready to let go. Also, I wasn't sure I wanted to read a story so Danicentric.

I was wrong on all counts. I loved being in Dani's head. She's fearless, despite her young age. It's hard not to love her zest for life and adventure. She'd rather risk her life, face death head-on, than live to old age in safety and boredom.

Ryodan is like Barrons. I get that. Hard to know. Still, he's not fooling anyone. He cares about what happens to Dani. Even when she makes him so mad he threatens to break her legs.

Dancer is delightful. I hope he is in more of the coming stories.

Christian is the character I feel most sorry for. He has no control over the fact that he's turning into a monster. He can't help it. But he's still not pleasant to be around. He's lost the most in this post AWC world.

On to the next book. Hopefully, Dani and Mac get their stuff sorted.
Like most others looking at this book I read the 5 volume Fever series from which it derives, a series I thoroughly enjoyed for its creative spark and plot development. A character introduced late in the Fever series, a 14 year old named Dani, is the protagonist for Iced. The novel is still loosely set in Dublin, and the scenario picks up where the Fever series ended, with the wall between the world of Fae and that of humans broken, leaking Seelie, Unseelie, and other nightmarish elements of Fae into the world of humans, slowly wiping out humanity. For unknown reasons, Dani has the ability to move with blinding speed from place to place so long as she is furnished with enough to eat (an eating disorder that would make most of us envious, since she constantly gorges on Snickers). She has possession of a Fae sword that can kill Seelie and Unseelie. Her abilities are trumped by the character Ryodan (also somewhat of a player in the Fever series), his henchman Lor, and Christian, who is gradually turning from human into a ruthless Unseelie prince. For continuity, there are occasional references to the characters of Mac and Barrons from the Fever series, where Mac was a protagonist who had to morph from party girl to a force of nature. Mac possesses the only other known weapon, a spear, that can kill Seelie and Unseelie. There is enough complexity that the author deserves credit for not getting things tangled up any more than they already were.

Overall, I don't think this novel is a bad effort, it just gets a bit tiresome to read through the same Dani musings over and over and over. She's characterized as an insecure teenager with an inflated ego to cover for her anxieties, indulging in endlessly stupid introspection. The plot line is OK, but takes far too long to develop in getting from point A to point B. In the first 5 books the story unfolded in unexpected and interesting ways. That creative spark was less in evidence in this novel, with Dani and Ryodan basically doing the same song and dance repeatedly to the extent you just want to say "OK, OK, I get it". There is some redemption for the pace of the book when Dani inadvertently unleashes the Crimson Hag from her prison in the White Mansion, a Fae structure introduced in the Fever Series. But then, that also proves to be an artifice for setting up the next novel in the developing series. I was also put off by how Iced ended, with a few paragraphs devoted at the very end to having Mac suddenly confront Dani (i.e., stay tuned, a preview of coming attractions).

I can recommend this book for fans of the Fever series, but be warned that it is not a page turner. It does do a reasonably good job of setting up for a series it is obviously designed to lead into. Hopefully subsequent volumes will redeem what I found to be a rather average effort at leveraging the much better executed Fever series.
I loved being back in Moning's ruined Dublin. Iced seems to pick up right after Shadowfever, with the city over run with Fae, an Unseelie Prince trapped in ice underneath the abbey, and Chester's as the go-to place for human/fae encounters. However, now we're following 14 year old Dani "Mega" O'Malley as she works with Ryodan to figure what's causing random places around the city to instantly freeze.

Even though this is Dani's book, there are a few chapters from Christian MacKeltar's POV. It was interesting seeing his slow transformation into an Unseelie Prince, but in general his chapters didn't add anything to the story, with the exception of the time Dani was unconscious and unable to narrate. Other than that, he just watches Dani from a rooftop or a tree, pines after her (which was SUPER random and weird), and talks about his penis. I like Christian, but his chapters just did nothing for me. However, Kat, the new Grand Mistress at the abbey, also has some chapters scattered throughout. Her's are very interesting, but I think they'll play a bigger role in the following books.

I'm wondering if Dani's trilogy is all going to follow the there's a problem that gets solved at the end formula. That's how Iced is. There's no over arching conflict that I could identify. Sure there's a cliffhanger ending, but it's a personal problem for Dani, nothing major.

We also get to meet the mysterious Dancer that Dani mentioned to Mac in Fever. He plays a pretty big role in this book, but he has to the flattest character I've ever read. He has no personality at all, and seemed to just be there to be the brains behind Dani's brawn. He's super smart, and figured out a lot of the missing pieces, but that's about all he did. He was a convenience.

I really liked this one, but it's missing something for me that Fever had. Maybe it's that lack of a larger conflict, I'm not sure, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Dani is a great character to follow, but I don't get what appeals her to Christian and Ryodan. In fact, that whole semi-love-triangle thing, was really weird and felt forced. I'm curious to see where that goes though.