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Frostbite by Richelle Mead

26 reviews

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Gore, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Action Packed

So much goes down in this book that there’s almost no break. You get to meet quite a few new people including another spirit user! Be prepared to cry by then end though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Confinement, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death and Mental illness

scarlettereads's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Frostbite is just as bad as book one, except that instead of one paedophile there are TWO! And the second was my favourite character in the series when I was a teen. To be fair, it was slim pickings with this series. But at least I didn’t picture Mr. Tommy Wiseau when I read about Adrian Ivashkov!

Rose is insufferable for most of this book. It was hard to read, especially when the audio performer made her voice so bloody whiny.

Nothing really happens until the last two-ish hours of this (audio)book. It’s pretty boring, overall. (Except for when Adrian buys Rose countless perfumes. Seriously weird way of flirting. Like, you smell good enough to eat, but you’d be mouthwatering with a little seasoning? 🧐)

I’m going to read book three anyway because I’m putting off reading a new release that I’m sure will break my heart a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Alcohol, Death, Pedophilia, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use

joyfulfoodie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I think this series is growing on me - I enjoyed book two more than book one. Maybe it was partly being more familiar with the three types of vampires, maybe it was that some of the world building was out of the way and the plot could just go. 
Now to be clear I’m giving this five stars but it’s not like a new favorite book of all time that I’m planning to fan girl and reread … but it was solidly enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Grief, and Sexual content

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I think the plot has improved from the first book. There was some character development. The bonds between characters have developed as well. I found this book to be more gripping and intense, and it kept me engaged. 

My main hang up is the developing relationship between Rose and Dimitri. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Alcohol, Addiction, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent and Mental illness

itslil_iguess's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I prefered the first book, this one isn't bad it's just kinda fine. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Alcohol

meheehee's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Torture, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Alcohol

feuillycakes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

If not for the setting being at a ski slope this might have been 5 stars. I really just don’t care for skiing. 

I enjoyed the character growth in this book. Rose acknowledges her faults and tries to fix them, with little success but still she tries. Her relationship with her mother is very interesting to see and the way it changes as Rose grows as a person and gains new experiences is really quite nice to read. 

The thing with Dimitri is still not icking me out like I thought it would. It’s a tiny bit uncomfortable but the reasons are discussed in the book and they do make an effort to move on. 

Lissa remains largely personality-less though there are hints to her caring about Rose every so often. She’s very caught up in her boyfriend though and that’s most of her personality. 

I was surprised at how this book does not shy away from the inherent horror and trauma of the situations these characters find themselves in. It’s very heavy and Rose most certainly has some sort of ptsd that is shown through flashbacks. Truly, this was darker than I expected it to be and the larger mystery and action had me quite hooked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Child death

hoffmann's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Not as good as the first, but still made me cry/scream/etc. Honestly, my least favorite part was the reiterating of the lore. like. we obviously read the first book, you don’t need to give us a refresher course. just put in a glossary and call it a day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gore, Sexual content, Gun violence, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

the_escapist's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Drug use, and Addiction