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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345517197
ISBN: 0345517199
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Studio: Ballantine Books
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’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is to read.
Gabriel McQueen has only just arrived home on holiday leave from the service when his county-sheriff father sends him back out again with new marching orders. A brewing ice storm, and a distant neighbor who’s fallen out of contact, have the local lawman concerned. So he enlists Gabriel to make the long haul to the middle of nowhere, and make sure Lolly Helton is safe and sound. It’s a trip the younger McQueen would rather not make given the bitter winter weather–and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly.
But there’s no talking back when your dad is the town’s top cop. And there’ s no turning back when night falls just as Gabriel arrives–and discovers that the weather outside isn’t the only thing that’s frightful. Spotting strangers in Lolly’ s home–one of them packing a weapon–is all it takes to kick Gabriel into combat mode. And his stealth training is all he needs to extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is discovered, the heat–and the hunt–are on. And the winter woods are nowhere to be once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.
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Linda Howard is one of my favorite authors so I was really looking forward to spending a nice evening with a great read. When I picked up the book I was disappointed that it was a short story masquerading as a hard-back novel but bought it anyway because I have always enjoyed her books.
I guess I should have read the reviews first... The characters were flat, the story was formulatic, and after finishing the book I felt like I had just wasted an hour (it is really short!) and $16. Now I still have the evening wide open and am wishing I had tried out a new author instead of going with a story that felt like a twenty-year old first draft that was found in the bottom of a desk drawer and freshened up for quick publication.
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I am sad that Linda Howard released such a lacking book. I usually love her books and eagerly await the next. The characters were unsympathetic, the plot skimpy, and the cost was too high for such a short and disappointing book. C'mon, Linda! You can do better!
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I have always enjoyed Linda Howard's books and looked forward to Ice coming out, but like the other reviewers' I finished it in a couple of hours, couldn't figure how the couple fell in love, the plot seemed unlikely, and there was no suspense of any kind. It was such a disappointment.
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Seemed more like a bad Lifetime movie than a book,disappointed I shelled out the money.
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I thought others were being too picky when I first started reading this book, it could have been so good with the beginning set up. But when it ended up switching to four different POV's all recounting the same time period I was bored. And whatever happened to learning about characters through conversation and interaction?? Pages and pages of the hero and heroine ruminating in their heads was more than I could stand. And then no good wrap up at the end? And I had thought getting through the first half of Burn was bad!! I love Howard's older stuff, she's written several of my top twenty books so this is just sad.
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