Review: A great story about hearts melting and freezing!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
The Ice Marathon is another high-quality read from Rosen Trevithick. It's a tense tale of unexpected motherhood and the even more unexpected nightmare that every parent in the world gets chills even thinking about.Right from the beginning, narrator Emma is a lively and immediate character, drawing us into her life with ease. Crucially, she doesn't always come across as likeable, which raises questions about her behaviour and what might be causing it. But at all times she is three-dimensional and believable, especially when her fears and paranoias start to kick in.Her explosive meetings with Simon, the father of her child, make great reading and I was surprised at how much humour there is in the early part of the book. Then as the story darkens, I was pulled along very quickly and found myself racing to the finish.If there's any criticism, it's that this meant the book finished a little prematurely for me. I would have welcomed a longer novel with further complications and mysteries. But that is also testament to how easy I found it to read. It's takes a lot of work to make writing look easy, and as always, Rosen delivers an emotional, satisfying story.