Customer Reviews
another sexy hero - By: avid reader, 25 May 2008 
If you're looking for quality literature & insightful authorship, you're reading the wrong book. This is a true modern romantic suspense, done extremely well & great escapist reading. I got swalllowed up in the relationship between the two main characters, despite the similarities with previous Anne Stuart heroes, there are enough unique points in this book to keep it fresh. She truly is the queen of the genre.
An enjoyable up and down reading experience - By: Karen, 09 Sep 2007 
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
I was half enjoying this rather slow-moving romantic suspense. Doing my best to ignore some lapses in pc-ness, when on page 152, I was hit by the most gigantic bulldozer of an offensive ethnic stereotype. I had to stop reading & start writing the review. In retrospect, the stereotyping started long before then. In fact it started the minute the hero, Takashi O'Brien, rescued the heroine Summer Hawthorne. Not to mention the token African-American best friend who gets killed for no good reason at alll.
Although the word is not used in the novel, Takashi, exemplifies the word `inscrutable.' I just chose to ignore that fact. What I couldn't ignore was when on page 152 he declares that his special skill is that he 'knows how to (mid market clothing label).' Oh brother.
Despite this I did finish Ice Blue. And I think to myself. How predictable the plots for this series are becoming. I wouldn't say I know what will happen in each novel. I definitely can predict the order in which events occur however. Ice Blue is a pale pale shadow of Cold As Ice. Takashi would probably have done better with his Japanese intended. A film I always vaguely remember seeing is Throne of Blood. Since then I just totallly falll at the feet of scheming Japanese females.
Ice Blue is rather tame reallly. The first half is basicallly spent riding around in 3 different cars. I had difficulty in seeing what other reviewers have objected to. Is it that Takashi tries to murder Summer? Or that he gives her the big O & then leaves her lying in a boneless puddle on the floor. At one point I thought these two were NEVER going to get it together. And tbh the way Takashi treats Summer is a lot more interesting than the baddie part of the plot. You just know that on the day Summer presents him with their first child Taka-chan is going to have the most massive nervous breakdown as he remembers what he almost did.
Goes without saying I'll be pre-ordering the next one in the series, Ice Storm.
