Review: Reviewed by Desere Steenberg
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
Imagine working with children each and every day of your life, but not being able to have any ofyour own. You crave a child so bad that thoughts of simply picking one up and walking out the hospital doors never to be seen again, pop-up in your mind on a regular basis.Scary and also a little psychotic, for those of you that have been blessed with children, put yourself in the shoes of a woman that wants a child and simply does not stand the chance. It can ruin any hope of a normal relationship, it can emotionally destroy you and in the end if you are not strong enough it can drive you to  insanity. Would you be strong enough or would you simply give up?In the new read by Kamy Chetty she explores the traumatic life of Olivia, who gives her all each and every day to make sure new borns' are healthy and that their mothers will have the chance to see their children grow up, it is what she does best.But deep down in her heart she holds in the pain of a life she simply will never have. Here, she is holding and cuddling adorable little babies and never will she be able to say, "This one is mine! " And because of this Olivia is known in the hospital as the ice lady.The one man that can however melt her into a puddle of want and need is come-over-here-and-I'll-make-you-smile Jack!Soon Olivia and Jack start up a relationship. Olivia is upfront with Jack from the start and it does not seem to bother Jack in a major way, but Jack has a skeleton hiding in his closet.The real question is what will happen when the past pops out of the closet and a whole new world of opportunities arise for Jack, will he be able to get Olivia to stick around or will she take off running because taking a risk to love and then losing it all again, is the pain she never wants to feel again. Or will Jack be the one to make the sacrifice?The characters were both well written, I felt truly sorry for Oliva, being a mother I can only imagine how terrible it must be to want a child and never being able to have one. I liked that the author started the read, giving me the idea that Olivia is just a little on the nutty side, yes it did worry me a little but it got me looking forward to see what will be the trigger to bring Olivia's wild thoughts back to reality.Olivia is strong and independent  but simply because she needs to be, if not she will crumble and might never be able to get back up again.  Loved that she gets up and moves on. I could understand why she dwells on the past , but I would have liked to see the author delve just a bit deeper into the precise what, who and where happened to her. She had a jerk of an ex-husband in her past. I got the general idea and enough information to form a picture but not quite what I was searching for.Jack was a great character, fun and kind of a goof-ball  yet sensitive and caring. He is basically a all round good guy but the author giving him some faces from the past popping up in his life made him a bit of a bad boy, nothing major bad but yes I got the essence of it.The dialogue was of the pure emotional kind, the author kept to the tune of this being pure drama, she gave me as reader some medical drama that was of the life threatening kind which I liked, and then blended in the romantic drama but very faintly, these two characters were more the kind to have a little argument and immediately also make up, which was kind of a new touch for me as reader as normally we get the hot and heavy conflict from today's reads,  yet I found this conflict over before if even properly starts somewhat refreshing.The message I am taking away from this read is that you must never give up on your dreams, there is always something or someone waiting in the wings that will be the light you need to crawl up out of the darkness that pain can cause. And when life gives you pain, get up, fight back and you might just find the silver lining.4.5 star review"The ice lady with no baby is about to find her very own family"