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Iced by Karen Marie Moning
4.0

Iced is written from Dani O'Malley's point of view who has superhero aspirations and her Batman and Robin misquotes are funny:

The Unseelie King's library! "Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!"

"Paperwork! Holy replicating reams! Is that all you ever do?"


Dani is fourteen but she's lived more in those young years than many live in a lifetime. Her immaturity, obstinacy, independence, fecking mouthiness and inflated cockiness is balanced by her Sidhe-seer talent for freeze-framing, moving at neck-break speeds and super heightened senses. If I had those talents as a teen, I'd be sassy and obnoxious too! And, she owns one of the only two weapons that kill the fecking fairies to boot. She is a force to be reckoned with.

Two immortals see Dani's future potential. Not only how powerful she will become, but see her hard veneer covers a fiercely good and brave heart. I love her spats with Ryodan and his underlying exasperation. Ryodan is usually unflappable and poker-faced, yet her constant questions, Are we Is my sword free there yet? and his resounding negative after the umpteenth time shows how she manages to nearly annoy him to death. Hilarious. Highlander Christian turning Unseelie prince is set to protect her too and he's such a conflicted character that it's almost painful to read.

Luckily there is no romance in this book because, frankly, that would be all sorts of revolting between an immortal and a teen, eeeeew! But, Dani could do a lot worse than her geeky brainiac friend Dancer who gets my vote if Dani needs a boyfriend in future books. Still, with her experience so far the best emotional moments for Dani is receiving compliments for slicing and dicing Fae in superhero mode, for which she positively preens, but that praise is rarely given. However, the entity that is icing Dublin's inhabitants is the new scary big-bad and Dani needs to suit up to the task as a Sidhe-seer to See, Protect & Serve.

Good addiction (sic) to the series.