Review: Fantastic!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
Fire and Ice was one of those books where I saw the cover and went "Sign up NOW" when I got the tour invitation (I didn't even bother to read what it was about) I just saw the cover and HAD to read it. Which let's be honest here, happens a lot. Sometimes the book matched the epic cover, other times it doesn't. This time however, the gorgeous cover totally matched the wonderful story. Plus the author is a fellow Ontarion so I had to sign up for the tour for that reason too!While the book was exceptionally well written and addictive. I have to admit that I thought that the first 30 pages were a bit slow for my liking, but it wasn't anything that troubled me over much because in a way it made me want to read more just to get to the real heart of the story.I enjoyed the way the book was written a lot. There was quite a bit of character and world building going on and the author's attention to detail was amazing. I know sometimes too much detail can be annoying but that was so not the case in this one. I thought she did a really good job in detailing the things that needed to be detailed without going overboard.The story was an interesting one. I haven't read a book about a healer in some time and I really like the whole healer thing in novels and I wish a few more author's would have characters like Lorelie. I thought that Lorelie was a very realistic character. I enjoyed the fact that like a real person, she had quirks, such as being a healer with a low tolerance for the sight of blood. I thought she was really relatable and I was rooting for her throughout the whole book because she was just plain awesome. I liked the way the author mixed some magic, mystery a wee bit of romance and a whole lot of other stuff going on that I was unsure of at first but came to enjoy.Overall, I thought that the writing was really good, but the story did sputter a bit at the beginning and in the middle. I enjoyed how the author set the world up for the next book in the series and I'm looking forward to reading book two in the trilogy when it is release. I thought this was a really well rounded YA novel apart from a few small issues.I would recommend this novel to fans of YA novels especially those with a magical element, romance and mystery all mixed into one, with a likable heroine that's really endearing.*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my free and honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed herein are 100% my own.