Miranda is a strong, independent-minded young lady, who is a spitfire without being shrewish and is gentle and sensitive without being a push-over, which is an amazing balance for an author to be able to strike. The psychological pain he experiences is so intense that he has thought of killing himself more than once, and he has a few flashbacks that were violent enough to make me a tad squeamish, one involving a horse, which as an animal lover, was particularly disturbing.
After an incident in Lord of Fire, where he lost track of where he was and came back to himself with weapons in his hands, he decided to live a solitary life for the safety of his loved ones. Damien is an intense, tortured alpha with the call of the warrior in his blood and an extreme case of PTSD from the time he spent in the Peninsular War fighting on the front lines. In some books I have read, such descriptions can be dry and slow the pace, but in Lord of Ice, everything from the account of the Knight family's Christmas celebration to the political climate of the era was woven together seamlessly and in an engaging way that made it seem like I was actually there.ĭamien and Miranda were a memorable hero and heroine. Foley's use of details to enrich the narrative. It was an extremely heartwarming scene that left a huge smile on my face. One of my favorite scenes in the book is when Miranda spies the Knight brothers having a late-night snowball fight like a bunch of unruly schoolboys. Even though they are of mixed parentage and each of the siblings has a distinct personality, they are a very close-knit and welcoming family. I loved the warm family atmosphere surrounding the Knight clan. I'm not really sure this second ending was necessary, but it did give another slice of life scenario to this appealing couple. The main plot of the story climaxed about forty pages or so from the end of the book and then turned in a completely unexpected direction, actually giving it a second ending of sorts plus an epilogue. There were several times that the direction of the story surprised me, but none more so than the ending or perhaps I should say endings. I did not find this to be a predictable read at all. In my opinion, it was a little light on the romance, with the historical and suspense elements being given almost equal weight, but it was still a wonderful and engaging book. Lord of Ice is another winning story from Gaelen Foley.
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