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Fire & Ice

By: Patty Jansen
Narrated by: Edward Mittelstedt
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Summary

Where magic is dark and gritty, characters are troubled and twisted, and victory comes at a heavy price.

Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen Southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power that locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For 50 years, the ruling Eagle Knights, who fly on the back of giant birds, have killed these Imperfects, fearing the return of the old royal family, who used icefire to cut out people's hearts, turning them into ghostly servitors. 

The old king's grandson Tandor only sees the good things icefire brought: power and technology now forgotten while the people of the South live in dire poverty. He's had enough of seeing his fellow kinsfolk slaughtered by ignorant Knights, of Imperfect babies being abandoned on the ice floes to be eaten by wild animals. His grandfather's diary tells him how to increase the beat of the Heart, the first step to making the land glorious once more. Arrogant as he is, he sets the machine in motion. All he needs is an army of Imperfect servitors to control the resulting power.

Isandor is Imperfect, an ex-Knight apprentice, betrayed by his best friend and running for his life. Queen Jevaithi is Imperfect, living like a prisoner amidst leering Knights, surviving only because the common people would rebel if their beloved queen were harmed. 

Both are young and desperate and should be grateful Tandor wants to rescue them from their hopeless situations. Or so he thinks. The youngsters, however, have no inclination to become heartless ghosts, but while they defy Tandor, the Heart beats, and he alone cannot control its power.

This will appeal to fans of Joe Abercrombie and George R.R. Martin.

©2012 Patty Jansen (P)2018 Patty Jansen

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Ice 🔥, good or bad

This is an exciting fantastical science fiction story. The characters are bigger than life and have their own ulterior motives. Tandor ,Ruko, Javethee, Isandor and the other imperfects takes us on a unbelievable journey. This audiobook has a cliff hanger that makes you want to pull your hair out, but I will buy book 2. I need to hear what's going to happen next. I received the audiobook in exchange for a honest review and I am ecstatic to have found this author. The narrator is very talented and enjoyable to listen to.

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Entertaining ideas that didn't quite click for me

This is a slightly difficult book for me to review, there are a lot of good ideas, interesting characters and a fairly well-realised world but for some reason it just didn't seem to click fully for me, at the same time though there wasn't anything in particular that I didn't like about it.

One possible reason for this situation might be that the characters were mostly interesting rather than likeable and thus couldn't serve as the initial hook early in the book while the rest of the world-building took place, which hampers this book, but could readily result in it helping subsequent ones in the series now that a lot of that stuff is out of the way.

The narrator gave a good overall performance that enhanced the book and helped to bring the characters to life.

Overall, this was a good book with enough interesting ideas that I would look into further parts of the series and I suspect this instalment will seem stronger as part of a trilogy than on its own.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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