Words I Write Crazy: Ice Flight, Frostbite: Guest Post and Review

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Ice Flight, Frostbite: Guest Post and Review

Today I'd like to welcome over Casey Lea, author of Ice Flight and Frostbite, over for a guest post!

So since there was a bit of a mix up, there's no guest post. Sorry!

From Goodreads:
Darsey Ice never thought her first trip past Jupiter would claim the lives of her crew. But then she hadn’t expected to become the first person to make contact with aliens either.

Kidnapped, enslaved and lost on the Outer Rim of a mighty civilization light-years from Earth, the only person she can turn to is her enigmatic new owner. A dishonored outcast, he is just as alone as Darsey. Exiled by his people and struggling to survive, the last thing he wants is a rebellious primitive as a slave. She complicates his efforts to hide a dangerous secret and to complete a quest that is likely to claim both their lives. They will only survive if they can find enough trust to forge an unwanted alliance.

From Goodreads:
When the ice takes your friends and then comes for you, what do you do?

Amber Grace has spent countless lives preparing for battle, but her time has finally run out. She’s mortal now and can only hope that her enemy is close. That when the monster comes to devour them all, she’ll still be alive and able to offer herself instead.

All Amber has to do is keep herself safe, but one thing the Universe never guarantees is safety. Forced from hiding and trapped on the Rim with the criminal scum of every interstellar species, Amber finds herself truly living in a way she hasn’t for millennia. Suddenly her choices are more than equations and the potential of billions killed must be balanced against protecting her friends.

Amber finally dares to embrace her last life, but a single mistake costs everything she has won. An ancient evil reaches through the chill of space, to freeze everything it touches.

Now the ice is coming… and it’s not alone.

My Review:
I loved this books! Oh, were they awesome, they had awesome characters, and they had wonderful worlds that were build so great! I loved to be submerged into them (hehe, using a water term with both of the titles have water in them) and yeah, just really great!

I felt for both Darsey, and Amber, they were both really different, but they both had struggles, and they both fought for what they believed in, and they were strong, independent women, even while Darsey got sold as a slave, and Amber deals with the fact that she only has the 1 life left.

There was a lot of detail, detail that made the worlds so very beautiful and complex, but at times, there was too much detail, to the point where I'd kinda forget what was currently going on, what had just happened, like there wasn't too much action at all.

Something I've read, and that I agree with, is that you can read Frostbite by itself, and not be confused, because while they are in a series, they don't have to be read together, you can understand one without the other, so yeah, there's that!

Yeah, a great series, I don't know if I want a sequel, they both ended pretty well, so yeah, check them out!

Author: Casey Lea
Series: The Iron Altar Trilogy #1, 2
Read: July 20th, 20th, 2014
Source: Copies for the Tour
Reason Why: Sounded good!
Publisher: Pegasus Press
Published: December 8th 2013, March 7th 2014

Ice Flight:

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

3/5 Stars

Frostbite:

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4/5 Stars

Bio:

Casey Lea is a mother and daughter writing team with a strong interest in science fantasy. The Casey Lea partnership began in 1990, with the arrival of Emma Casey Frost, first daughter of Shelley Lea and Gary. Although Emma was a very precocious child, it took another fifteen years before she began working with her mother.

Shelley Lea (pronounced ‘lee’) was born on a snowy June day, near the bottom of the world, in Invercargill, New Zealand. Reluctant to supply a date of birth, she would rather claim several decades of maturity, but only a few days of actual wisdom. Those decades have covered a range of jobs, a couple of degrees (including English Lit), one great husband, plenty of travel, two gorgeous daughters, several scatty cats and one charmingly dumb dog. They’ve also included an on-going struggle to put pen to paper in any spare second. This has led to some dire poetry, some eyebrow raising children’s stories and finally to something resembling a novel. This languished in a sadly disjointed and hand written form until…

Emma Casey inherited her mother’s love of books and the ability to string two sentences together (sometimes three). She proved to be the missing link in trying to actually finish a manuscript. Younger, savvier and able to turn on a computer without causing it to explode, she picked up the book and ran with it. Emma is also studying graphic design and happily provides Casey Lea’s cover artwork.

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