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ezichinny's review
3.0
Cursed by Ice picks up right where Cursed by Fire ended. Dethan had just found out that he will be getting the aid of his youngest brother Garrett, on the mission to build an army while gathering worshipers for their patron gods. In book 1, Dethan’s punishment was nightly burning by god’s fire, whereas here, Garreth was continuously frozen for his punishment.
Garreth was a more humble and likeable character than his older brother Dethan. Garreth was more sensible and cautious about his actions. Garreth accompanies his older brother to the city of Kith and there, he meets a slave girl named Sarielle. During their mission to conquer the city, Garreth learns that Sarielle has a bond with a wyvern (Dragon-like creature) and her life depended on the safety of the wyvern and vice versa. Sarielle has two sisters that the city elders held hostage, forcing Sarielle to usethe wyvern to protect Kith. While Garreth becomes attracted to Sarielle, he doesn’t lose track of the mission that goddess Weysa set him and Dethan upon.
Garreth and Dethan finally sack the city and Sarielle asserts her independence, which put her on equal footing with Garreth. Thus the road to pursue their attraction was cleared, and they began a battle of wills.
Better than book 1 but this series is not going to be memorable. It's just not on par with some of the new releases right now. I am on the fence about this series overall. I feel like it could really be good but it’s lacking something. The story telling was much better in the sequel and the main characters had more depth. There was even more involvement from the gods in this book. But the story needs a little more of something to propel it from average status. I will try book 3 in a few months.
Garreth was a more humble and likeable character than his older brother Dethan. Garreth was more sensible and cautious about his actions. Garreth accompanies his older brother to the city of Kith and there, he meets a slave girl named Sarielle. During their mission to conquer the city, Garreth learns that Sarielle has a bond with a wyvern (Dragon-like creature) and her life depended on the safety of the wyvern and vice versa. Sarielle has two sisters that the city elders held hostage, forcing Sarielle to usethe wyvern to protect Kith. While Garreth becomes attracted to Sarielle, he doesn’t lose track of the mission that goddess Weysa set him and Dethan upon.
Garreth and Dethan finally sack the city and Sarielle asserts her independence, which put her on equal footing with Garreth. Thus the road to pursue their attraction was cleared, and they began a battle of wills.
Better than book 1 but this series is not going to be memorable. It's just not on par with some of the new releases right now. I am on the fence about this series overall. I feel like it could really be good but it’s lacking something. The story telling was much better in the sequel and the main characters had more depth. There was even more involvement from the gods in this book. But the story needs a little more of something to propel it from average status. I will try book 3 in a few months.
tfail24's review
4.0
Let me start off by saying that this book was a lot better, to me, that Cursed by Fire.
I liked Garreth and he was definitely more likeable than Dethan was. Garreth's curse is to freeze to death over and over again, but never allowed to die because of his immortality. Garreth is brought back by the Goddess to be her full time warrior. Here he meets Sariella, a slave, much like himself.
Sariella has a rare gift and is currently being used by the lord to control, Koro, a mythical beast. Sarielle is in charge of caring for her two siblings and they being held by the lord as leverage against her so that she has to use her gift to control the beast for him.
I liked that Garreth and Sariella were both slaves to somebody else, so they kind of knew what each other was going through. Garreth and Sarielle's journey to was wonderful and their love story gives the book a very good ending.
I am so glad that I didn't give up on the series after Cursed by Fire, because this one was really, really a lot better.
ARC was provided by Netgalley for an honest review.
I liked Garreth and he was definitely more likeable than Dethan was. Garreth's curse is to freeze to death over and over again, but never allowed to die because of his immortality. Garreth is brought back by the Goddess to be her full time warrior. Here he meets Sariella, a slave, much like himself.
Sariella has a rare gift and is currently being used by the lord to control, Koro, a mythical beast. Sarielle is in charge of caring for her two siblings and they being held by the lord as leverage against her so that she has to use her gift to control the beast for him.
I liked that Garreth and Sariella were both slaves to somebody else, so they kind of knew what each other was going through. Garreth and Sarielle's journey to was wonderful and their love story gives the book a very good ending.
I am so glad that I didn't give up on the series after Cursed by Fire, because this one was really, really a lot better.
ARC was provided by Netgalley for an honest review.
eloiseinparis's review
2.0
This book to my disappointment is no better than the first but is in fact worse. The same sophomoric writing style is used and it doesn’t even fit in with her other series. So either she wrote this a long time ago and now that she is a popular writer they decided to publish it without any changes or it was her idea but someone else wrote the actual book. I don’t know what is going on but they really need to get it together.
Sarielle is one of the dumbest heroine’s I have ever read. Garreth has conquered her city and she has no idea if he is friend or foe, she she initially refuses to give him information and then less than two minutes later tells him all her weaknesses. And yes I mean literally two minutes pass before she tells her weaknesses unsolicited. There was no reason for that other than the writer was to lazy to make Garreth work to learn about her.
Garreth is also and idiot. He conquers a city and expects it to immediately bend to his will socially and politically. That naiveté or ignorance might have been plausible if he hadn’t been a conquerer before he was cursed, and you could say he was rusty except in between this book and the one prior he and his brother had conquered other cities. Also for some reason Dethan was a douche. He kept insisting that Garreth and Sarielle be apart because he was “worried” about his brother. Even though he married and still fought for his god. Bethan was condescending and conniving throughout the entire book. It was a forced conflict and it made a character do a complete 180 unnecessarily.
I don’t think I’ll be reading the next book in this series. Not only is the writing bad, but the plots are weak. I wasn’t rooting for a HEA because both leads were idiots.
Sarielle is one of the dumbest heroine’s I have ever read. Garreth has conquered her city and she has no idea if he is friend or foe, she she initially refuses to give him information and then less than two minutes later tells him all her weaknesses. And yes I mean literally two minutes pass before she tells her weaknesses unsolicited. There was no reason for that other than the writer was to lazy to make Garreth work to learn about her.
Garreth is also and idiot. He conquers a city and expects it to immediately bend to his will socially and politically. That naiveté or ignorance might have been plausible if he hadn’t been a conquerer before he was cursed, and you could say he was rusty except in between this book and the one prior he and his brother had conquered other cities. Also for some reason Dethan was a douche. He kept insisting that Garreth and Sarielle be apart because he was “worried” about his brother. Even though he married and still fought for his god. Bethan was condescending and conniving throughout the entire book. It was a forced conflict and it made a character do a complete 180 unnecessarily.
I don’t think I’ll be reading the next book in this series. Not only is the writing bad, but the plots are weak. I wasn’t rooting for a HEA because both leads were idiots.
lindaunconventionalbookworms's review
3.0
*I received a free ARC of Cursed by Ice from Ballantine Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest and unbiased review*
Cursed by Ice is better than Cursed by Fire, but it still didn't totally make me weak in the knees :) Full review to come soon.
This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews
Cursed by Ice is better than Cursed by Fire, but it still didn't totally make me weak in the knees :) Full review to come soon.
This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews
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