Ice Song

Great Read

Sorykah/Soryk is a strong female/male character. The journey of Sorykah/Soryk to find their twins leads through a a good blend of character development and scene descriptions to build the knowledge of this world. The genetic engineering in this world has gone awry. But the books leaves me wondering if the humans with genetic mutations captured the humanity and left the human race without compassion. Sorykah/Soryk as a Trader is a highly valued commodity and a reason to hide their identity and that the twins have inherited that gene. This would be a good book for a book club discussion.

This fantasy/adventure thriller was a fantastic read!

I was on the edge of my seat reading this fantasy/adventure thriller. It intertwines gender identity, science and the fierce devotion of a mother who bravely overcomes all odds to save her children.

It was hard for me to believe that this was Kasai's first published novel. She spins a story that takes readers to the frozen land of the Sigue where the tale of Sorykah Minuit unfolds.

Sorykah, an engineer and the sole woman aboard the ice-drilling submarine, Nimbus must reclaim her infant twins, from a madman who abducts babies to use in his dreadful experiments. In this futuristic sci fi thriller, Sorykah and her male alter-ego, Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get the children back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt from a deep and dreamless sleep.

The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins.

exciting futuristic science fiction thriller

Engineer Sorykah Minuit is a Trader whose gender changes periodically without her control of the switch. She currently works on a low end job on an ice drilling sub. When she finishes her tour, she goes to meet her infant twins Ayeda and Leander and their nanny Nels in the dangerous ice cap town Ostara. However, they fail to show up.
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To keep from freezing she enters a Somatics' bar; a place unsafe for Traders as the hybrid human-beasts prefers no mingling with outsiders. Rava an octopus-lady takes her into her zone while informing a distraught Sorykah that the Trader Matuk the Collector abducted them in his quest to dissect unique individuals seeking a cure for his repulsive mentally disturbed daughter the W ild Wood Beast Radhe. Sorykah goes into Erun Forest to rescue her children, but switches gender losing most of the essence that made her who she was including memories of being a caring mother.
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ICE SONG is an exciting futuristic science fiction thriller that extrapolates modern day genetic engineering and HG Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau with a brilliant gender-memory twist. The story line is fast-paced yet the three prime locales are vivid in a dark gloomy way as readers will anticipate pending doom. Sorykah is a terrific lead protagonist who changes from hard worker to desperate distraught mother to confused male and does so in a believable manner. Kirsten Imani Kasai provides a fascinating well written cautionary tale.
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Harriet Klausner

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