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lisaeirene's review against another edition
5.0
This book was excellent! It was gripping and fascinating and fast paced. Maura Isles, Boston ME, is at a work conference in Wyoming. On a whim she decides to leave with an old colleague and his friends for a ski trip in a nearby town. Except they never make it there. The weather is awful, the car crashes, they are forced to set out on foot to find shelter. They find a weird, abandoned compound that turns out to be the home to a cult. The book is harrowing--dark, creepy, alone in the wilderness in a snow storm--excellent horror movie atmosphere. The story is unique and takes many twists and turns, even at the very end, that I wasn't expecting. Couldn't put the book down.
lauramorosanu's review against another edition
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.5
ennime713's review against another edition
4.0
Full of twist and turns you're not expecting. A very good read and hard to put down.
fondarush's review against another edition
4.0
For fans of Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series...
Well written. Keeps me entertained until the last page.
Well written. Keeps me entertained until the last page.
annamastorou's review against another edition
5.0
Quickest Dutch read. Very suspenseful, preferred picking up the book than my phone - that speaks volumes.
keirareading123's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
monikashim's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
eslismyjam's review against another edition
5.0
A nail biter! I've never read any of the books in this series before but it didn't matter! This was a scary, suspenseful book. Read it in two days!
weaselweader's review against another edition
4.0
A successful continuation to the Rizzoli and Isles series
Despite the fact that ICE COLD is the 8th entry in the now mature Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series, Gerritsen has continued to keep her plotting fresh and exciting and allows her two protagonists to continue changing and evolving, presenting themselves as interesting, exciting and realistic, human characters that their fans will care about.
Medical examiner Maura Isles is unhappy. She has self-diagnosed her personality and her love life as staid, hidebound and unexciting, perhaps even futile. Seeing herself as falling into the moribund trap of utter predictability, she attends a medical conference in Wyoming and allows a friend to persuade her to take an impulsive, unscheduled side trip into the winter wilderness of the Wyoming mountain landscape. A massive winter snowstorm forces her and her companions to seek shelter in a creepy, deserted town called Kingdom Come.
Ironically, Maura Isles' feelings about her day to day behaviour being quite predictable, prove reasonably well-founded as her best friend, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, is worried when Isles fails to return home at her scheduled time. Casual inquiries into her friend's unlikely late arrival home soon turn into a full-fledged investigation into her best friend's death when she learns that Isles' badly burnt remains have been discovered by the ruins of their car deep in the Wyoming wilderness.
Gerritsen moves her story from interesting procedural into the realm of a compelling thriller as it soon becomes obvious that Rizzoli is prying open the doors of a cult and looking into the behaviour of its enigmatic but charismatic leader, Jeremiah Goode. ICE COLD is a topical thriller that sheds light onto the all too common real-life examples of cult brainwashing, religious programming, far right wing anti-government militarism, mass suicide and the courage it takes to effect an escape from such a group and undergo the extensive de-programming that is necessary to resume a normal life.
ICE COLD represents one more successful notch in Tess Gerritsen's gun and a continuation in a series that, quite clearly, still has plenty of legs. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Despite the fact that ICE COLD is the 8th entry in the now mature Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series, Gerritsen has continued to keep her plotting fresh and exciting and allows her two protagonists to continue changing and evolving, presenting themselves as interesting, exciting and realistic, human characters that their fans will care about.
Medical examiner Maura Isles is unhappy. She has self-diagnosed her personality and her love life as staid, hidebound and unexciting, perhaps even futile. Seeing herself as falling into the moribund trap of utter predictability, she attends a medical conference in Wyoming and allows a friend to persuade her to take an impulsive, unscheduled side trip into the winter wilderness of the Wyoming mountain landscape. A massive winter snowstorm forces her and her companions to seek shelter in a creepy, deserted town called Kingdom Come.
Ironically, Maura Isles' feelings about her day to day behaviour being quite predictable, prove reasonably well-founded as her best friend, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, is worried when Isles fails to return home at her scheduled time. Casual inquiries into her friend's unlikely late arrival home soon turn into a full-fledged investigation into her best friend's death when she learns that Isles' badly burnt remains have been discovered by the ruins of their car deep in the Wyoming wilderness.
Gerritsen moves her story from interesting procedural into the realm of a compelling thriller as it soon becomes obvious that Rizzoli is prying open the doors of a cult and looking into the behaviour of its enigmatic but charismatic leader, Jeremiah Goode. ICE COLD is a topical thriller that sheds light onto the all too common real-life examples of cult brainwashing, religious programming, far right wing anti-government militarism, mass suicide and the courage it takes to effect an escape from such a group and undergo the extensive de-programming that is necessary to resume a normal life.
ICE COLD represents one more successful notch in Tess Gerritsen's gun and a continuation in a series that, quite clearly, still has plenty of legs. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
wendy_verbiest's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5