{"id":2304,"date":"2013-04-26T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:24:58","slug":"book-review-iced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Iced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1333022535l\/12444166.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>14-year-old Dani from the Fever series is super-speeding through Dublin, living large and generally trying to be a superhero. But she isn&#8217;t the fastest or strongest thing on the streets, and one of those faster\/stronger things &#8212; Ryodin &#8212; forces her to work for him. <\/p>\n<p>Something is icing people and fae alike. Who? Why? And can they stop it?<\/p>\n<p>I lo-o-oved the Fever series. This sequel was good, but I guess I&#8217;m just not as into Dani as I was into Mack. It&#8217;s not that Dani isn&#8217;t a well-drawn 3D character. She definitely is. It&#8217;s more that she was so well done that she was an entirely believable and obnoxious 14-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>When I heard there was going to be a sequel starring Dani, I thought (hoped) that it would take place a few years later, after Dani grew up. I was surprised to read about her as a 14-year-old in an entirely adult book. This is NOT YA, or even close. It&#8217;s full of sex, violence, language, and adult concepts. In some ways, Dani is forced to grow up too soon. In some ways, she&#8217;s an obnoxious teenager.<\/p>\n<p>To go a step further, it was difficult as a reader to try to bridge the mental and psychological gap between a sexually-charged adult novel and a 14-year-old heroine. <\/p>\n<p>Dani really does need a keeper. She&#8217;s too dangerous to be let loose and too immature to understand consequences. She&#8217;s learning, but for now, I think I just found her a difficult character to fully embrace. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I liked it, but I didn&#8217;t love it. If you liked the Fever series, I recommend this.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3\/5<\/p>\n<p>Title: Iced<br \/>\nAuthor: Karen Marie Moning<br \/>\nISBN: 0385344406<br \/>\nPublished October 30, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14-year-old Dani from the Fever series is super-speeding through Dublin, living large and generally trying to be a superhero. But she isn&#8217;t the fastest or strongest thing on the streets, and one of those faster\/stronger things &#8212; Ryodin &#8212; forces her to work for him. Something is icing people and fae alike. Who? Why? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[69,146,26,144,142,143,145,18,19,80],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","tag-christine-amsden","tag-danni","tag-fantasy","tag-fever-series","tag-iced","tag-karen-marie-moning","tag-mackayla-layne","tag-review","tag-romance","tag-urban-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}