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A stunning thriller! With a its fascinating characters, harsh, Polar terrain, and riveting action sequences, Blood and Ice will chill you to the bone. --Lisa Gardner, bestselling author of Say Goodbye
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This fascinating adventure on The Ice really captures the feeling you sometimes get down there, that anything can happen. The science, romance and danger of Antarctica are all well conveyed, and merge into the thrill that is the true Antarctic experience.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book because it was an adult vampire book and as much as I loved the Twilight series I was 'thirsting' for an adult vampire book as I'm currently working on my own vampire book. Blood and Ice is very much a modern Gothic romance that revolves around Lieutenant Sinclair Copley of the 17th Hussars and his lover Eleanor Ames, a nurse attached to Florence Nightingale, who makes a few cameo appearances. The book is a bit hard to take for the first half as it lurches between 1854 and the present day, usually a chapter at a time but I would encourage people to keep reading as once these two doomed lovers are freed from the ice block and awakened, the story suddenly takes on a Chricton type pace. At its heart it is a love story that spans centuries and poses the interesting and fascination scenario of 19th century characters being thrust into the 21st. The reaction of Eleanor to an African American female doctor is well within reason and totally believable. Masello has stayed away from the traditional vampire stereotypes and traced his vampire back to the Strigoi, a kind of beast that preyed on the dead and dying in the Crimea. The setting of Antarctica is fascinating and really takes you there, in the end you are forced to keep reading because you really do care about these two characters plucked from the 19th and thrust into the 21st century, where everything is both fascinating and terrifying. It was one of those books I read in a single afternoon and night. You almost want it to keep going into a sequel but I rather suspect that might ruin the story, it ends as it should end and leaves you feeling satisfied and hopeful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This fascinating adventure on the ice really captures the feeling you sometimes get there, Loneliness, fright and the feeling anything could happen and it does. The science, romance and danger of "The Pole" are well conveyed.
This book caught my attention after a forum member mentioned it and did not like it, oh what a challenge me thinks. The book is for fair way in, in two parts, the past and the present. The past tells us how the ice bound characters came to be where they were found in the 21st century. I loved the detail about the Crimea war and how it affected all the characters who we read about early in the book. It is a fantasy, sci fi and plausible story about cryogenics, vampires (and why they are vampires) and the cold wastes of the "Pole." The scientists are very true to form as I know many in real life I loved the story it really affected me and took me on an emotional rollercoaster ride. I feel the author rushed the last 1000 words or so and left no real detail or a longer "who dunnit" People who like their books firmly rooted in the real world probably wouldn't enjoy this book. I would have swapped certain pages over and not given away the clues so quickly and kept the suspense a bit longer But there is a plausible answer to the story and one I think may have afflicted Crimean War soldiers. Don't be put off with the gory bits they are true to the Crimean war period and need to be told. There are some very implausible parts that the reader will have to access and decide upon for themselves but it does not distract from the story line as long as you realise this is or maybe not fantasy.
Suitable for young adults too but you may be put off by the detailed gory parts. If like me you enjoy history then you will relish the past tense pages.
I cant wait to buy more of his books and it has been a great read and all of the 495 pages were very enjoyable indeed.
This book caught my attention after a forum member mentioned it and did not like it, oh what a challenge me thinks. The book is for fair way in, in two parts, the past and the present. The past tells us how the ice bound characters came to be where they were found in the 21st century. I loved the detail about the Crimea war and how it affected all the characters who we read about early in the book. It is a fantasy, sci fi and plausible story about cryogenics, vampires (and why they are vampires) and the cold wastes of the "Pole." The scientists are very true to form as I know many in real life I loved the story it really affected me and took me on an emotional rollercoaster ride. I feel the author rushed the last 1000 words or so and left no real detail or a longer "who dunnit" People who like their books firmly rooted in the real world probably wouldn't enjoy this book. I would have swapped certain pages over and not given away the clues so quickly and kept the suspense a bit longer But there is a plausible answer to the story and one I think may have afflicted Crimean War soldiers. Don't be put off with the gory bits they are true to the Crimean war period and need to be told. There are some very implausible parts that the reader will have to access and decide upon for themselves but it does not distract from the story line as long as you realise this is or maybe not fantasy.
Suitable for young adults too but you may be put off by the detailed gory parts. If like me you enjoy history then you will relish the past tense pages.
I cant wait to buy more of his books and it has been a great read and all of the 495 pages were very enjoyable indeed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Blood and Ice is the first time I have read anything by Robert Masello, but I will have to be on the look out for other books by him now. This novel isn't easy to categorise, I would say that it is mostly science fiction, but there is a good bit of history thrown into the mix and a little romance and let's not forget vampires, although I would certainly not call this a horror novel. Most of all, I would say that this tale is a superbly told adventure story and that Robert masello has blended all these element's wonderfully well. This is a story of doomed lovers Eleanor and Sinclair, from the times of the Crimean War, when Florence Nightingale and her nurses went over there to tend to the injured soldiers. It is also the story of journalist Michael Wilde sent to a remote research station in Antarctica in the present day to write a feature for Eco-Travel magazine. Their stories converge when after a deep sea dive, which Michael was a part of, the bodies of a woman and a man are found chained together, frozen solid in ice at the bottom of the sea. When these two are brought to the surface, they are gradually thawed by the scientist's at the station to be studied, that is when the killings start and they begin to realise the danger they are in. I would thoroughly recommend this breathtaking novel, it is pure escapism at it's best and great entertainment.
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Some Blood, a lot of ice, not much story...
When you read the back of the book it sounds like a good modern twist on the vampire legend. You slog through the very detailed accounts of the Antarctica and the research that is... Read more
Published 9 months ago by tiddly-pom
Interesting take on vampires
The blurb to this book instantly caught my attention. It's a rare occurrence for me to pick up a book that I've never heard of by an author I've never heard of. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Thoughts Of A Scot Reviews
Worst Book Ever
This book is pointless. I finished reading it in case something suprprising would eventually happen, but it doesn't. There is no story to tell. The characters are not believable. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Reader
I really enjoyed this book.
This book was really great, the only thing I was disappointed with was the ending, which I couldn't help thinking was somewhat rushed, which was a real shame. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Tam
No teeth, little blood
If Mr Masello intended this book to be a lighthearted parody of Carpenters The Thing and modern vampire romances, he succeeded well. Otherwise he failed miserably. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jan Patrik Sahlstrøm
Great start, then very disapointing
Blood and Ice starts really well. I don't mind admitting that after the first 20 pages or so, I was hooked and thought this was going to pan out into being a great book. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dawn
Fantastic, but a let down ending
Saw this and was intrigued by the title and the promise of a different kind of vampire. All went well till near the end of the book when suddenly the characters I had been eager... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Sphynxthinker
Could Have Been Better...
This book is one of those books where the Author has a brilliant idea and then ruins it by writing a half-assed ending. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Miss Victoria Ramage
Struggled to finish what promised to be a great story
By reading the blurb on the book, i expected a lot from this novel, but unfortunately, it failed to deliver. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jade H
What a brilliant read!
I was drawn to this book initially by the cover and when I realised it was an adult vampire novel I was eager to read it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jenni
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