Review: Ice, Ice, Baby?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
Finn is a mythically strong hybrid man who has been treated with malice in his community and raised an orphan.  Forced to live and eat with the dogs on the outskirts of a community he longed to belong too, he learned to kill, to hunt, to survive but not to love. Sent on a suicide mission by his tyrant leader, he finds an abandoned babe in the snow.  The babe is hungry and cold and even Finn knows that the child needs to be fed and not abandoned the way he was.Rhona is a nursemaid/sometimes lightskirt who does what she must to survive in the cold cruel world she has been unfortunate enough to belong to.She has hardened her heart to ice because men have treated her horribly and fate has treated her worse.  She is hungry, lonely, desperate and cold when a dark stranger with a squalling babe bangs on the door of the stable she lives in.The story that unfolds is one of unforseen love, family ties and action that show that true love can warm the coldest of hearts.This was a very cool book, I don't typically care for mythical/sci-fi type stories but this one was heavy on the emotions and light on the fantastical. I enjoyed the development of the characters, the realism of the setting (my teeth nearly chattered from the cold), and the editing was perfect.  I would definately read other books from this author.  My only critique would be that the cover art is just bad.  Other than that, this book was well worth the read!