Blood and Ice

A+++ horror thriller!!!

Get out your credit card or make haste to your nearest library and get this book! It grabs you on the first page and doesn't let loose of you until the end. Where a lot of thrillers with adventure as a key element are written to appeal mainly to a male audience, Masello's thriller will capture just as many women. There's adventure in an exotic and hostile environment, non-stop suspense, supernatural horror, riveting historical fiction, and even some romance. If you enjoyed the movie "The Thing" or the novel "The Ruins" by Scott Smith, or you like novels that take place in the Arctic or Antarctica, you'll love this one.

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After reading about halfway I was convinced it was another Clive Cussler shlock piece. Then the ice melted and I found it had thawed into another cold hearted vampire Cirque du Freak shlock piece.

When will someone drive a stake through the heart of this stuff and we get on to more engaging novels. One or two Vamp novels a year are more than enough. But when writers need $$$ they turn to Drac dreck.

I suppose readers are turned on by going through these things hunting for something new.

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One of the Best Books I've ever Read

Blood and Ice just captured me from the 1st page to the last page. I basically read it in one sitting. What a totally awesome read. Part horror, part supernatural, do yourself a favor and read this book.

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excellent paranormal thriller

In 1856 British 17th Lancers Lieutenant Sinclair Copley and Florence Nightingale's Harley Street Hospital Nurse Eleanor Ames are in love. However, on the 28th of December the pair falls overboard from the HMS Coventry sloop in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Neither body is found.

In November of the present in Seattle, writer Michael Wilde needs time away from to escape a tragedy that haunts his sleep since he lost his beloved Kristin who lies in a coma; her residence being that ward of Tacoma General Hospital. Whereas her parents believe she will soon come home; he knows she is no longer there as in his mind her soul moved on. Thus he accepts an assignment from Eco-Travel Magazine to write an article on Point Adelie Research Station in Antarctica. Michael finds two bodies frozen in a block of ice; each chained. Shockingly once the ice is melted, Sinclair and Eleanor are alive.

This excellent paranormal thriller hooks the audience even before the rescue as both the present and past rotate somewhat perspective with each subplot fascinating. The story line is fast-paced and filled with chills; not all from the weather conditions as readers and Michael need to know the facts re the mysterious nineteenth century couple for personal reasons perhaps more than simple curiosity.

Harriet Klausner

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Historical vampires

I should have read more reviews. Was not prepared for this to be a vampire book. It turned out to be fair read but just not my taste.

A good read but missing the gusto I was hoping for

Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
Well there was certainly a lot of ice, but very little blood. Blood and Ice was not terrible, but it was not really great either. It had great potential, but failed to follow through. The book was well written and I may try another book by this author, but I must say this was my first impression and I was not impressed with the complete package.
The book offers a familiar story of 2 young lovers torn apart by war, and a second story of a man that has lost his love in a tragic accident. Although it sounds like there would be a lot of angst, there really was not, which is good we all have enough of that from Twilight series. The vampire twist in this one is decent, and again has great potential, but fails to follow through.
The characters are well developed, interesting and have what it takes to make a great book, but it falls short of getting there. The story of the ice freed lovers has good grit and movement, but needs a bit more edge. The ending felt a little rushed, and a little to tidy.
The author does a good job implementing the timeline changes. The flashbacks and memories are well constructed and fit well into place making it easy to follow.
Overall not a bad book.

enjoyable

"Blood And Ice" by Robert Masello is two stories, the first the love story of a doomed Victorian couple from two hundred years ago and the other, a scientific expedition to the South Pole. One journalist Michael Wilde finds the frozen bodies of the couple chained together in the ice, the adventure begins. But when the ice melts and they become alive again, terror takes over. This isn't really a horror story and I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat. But the story unfolds nicely to keep one's interest in what would happen next. It was an enjoyable weekend read.

A little too much flashback for me

It could be argued that the flashbacks into how the couple became essentially vampires is essential to the story, but I found myself wanting to hurry those sections along and get back to the present time line. Some of the science seemed a little unbelieveable also. One of the mysteries never explained was the origin of the creatures carrying the blood infection that turned them into vampires.

Blood and Ice

When I was looking at this book, I thought it would be a adventure packed, thrilling, and romantic story. Although there was action and some thrill, I found the book to be dull. The action seemed to draw out to slowly for me, it was predictable, and not romantic at all. I disliked a majority of the characters, particularly the main one. A good thing about the novel was that it seemed to be very well researched, it was very original, and there were parts that were very interesting, such as the story of the vampire lovers. But it wasn't enough to capture me. If you're going to read it, I suggest borrowing it from someone, from the library, and waiting until it comes out in paperback.

Romantic Thriller Crosses History and Time

I loved "Blood and Ice." The imaginative storylne was original, absorbing, dramatic and thrilling. What happens to Sinclair and Eleanor 150 years ago affects the lives of those stationed at a modern-day research station in the Antarctic. One of those deeply involved is journalist Michael Wilde. Masello's well written and fast-paced story combines horror, sci-fi, adventure and romance into a delicious book you will not be able to put down. I deeply cared about what happened to Sinclair, Eleanor and Michael, as well as those assigned at the South Pole. I enjoyed reading about the Crimean War. Highly recommended.

Another Vampire Book

Ho hum, another vampire book. Not terrible, kept my interest. I hated the first half of the book when we kept going back in time to the boring 1800's. I would never read it again and would not recommend it to any one. But over all not terrible

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Outlander Meets the Thing

This book had a lot of elements that reminded me both of Diana Gabadoon's Outlander series and the John Carpenter movie The Thing. The book starts with a British couple on-board a ship near the South Pole sometime during the 1800's. The woman (Eleanor) is sick and the man (Sinclair) is secretly trying to aid her with some mysterious wine bottles. When the crew finds out about the bottles they raise up against the couple. They are chained together and tossed overboard into the icy polar waters.

The book then picks up in the present time with a photographer (Michael) sent on assignment to a remote base in the Antarctic. He first has to make peace with his own family as his wife is in a coma and her parents blame him for his wife's condition.

Michael ends up in the base in the Antarctic and has to deal with extreme weather and living conditions while he works on a magazine story dealing with the scientific research on the base. One of the things he does is to accompany some scientist on a dive under the ice. While underwater Michael stumbles upon a woman with a chain around her frozen into the ice (can we say Eleanor and Sinclair?).

As the story progresses we learn Eleanor and Sinclair's story as she was a nurse and he was a military officer who fought in the Crimean War. Little by little the reader starts to understand more what was in the bottles and why the couple was thrown overboard.

As other readers have pointed out, to tell too much of the story would ruin it with too many spoilers. Michael is a deep character with his own internal demons because of what happened to his wife and Eleanor and Sinclair have a very interesting tale of how they met and what later happened to them.

I liked this book and finished rather fast and the ending does leave things possible for a sequel so if the author has one in mind, I will be game.

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