If you're interested in winning a brand new, hardcover copy of Ice by Sarah Beth Durst, I will once again stronly recommend you become a follower of my blog (just click the button in the sidebar). You don't have to. There will be other ways to enter the drawing, but I'm just suggesting you do this quickly. Very quickly.

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WAHOO!!! Watch out, World. Enna Isilee is BACK with a vengence! And what's to blame? Ice by Sarah Beth Durst.

This book is based in modern times, up in Alaska and the arctic. Cassie lives with her father and their team at a research station in the middle of the ice-desert. Cassie's grandmother often told Cassie the story of how her mother was promised to the Polar bear king by her father the North Wind, but then she fell in love with a human man and the Polar Bear King(love him!) agreed to protect her from the North Wind's wrath, on the condition that their first-born daughter be his wife. But North Wind found her anyway blew her to the edge of the earth to be with the trolls.

Now it's Cassie's 18th birthday, and the Polar Bear King has come for her.

We're talking hardcore Squeaky Book here guys, as in I haven't moved from this chair all day! What was it that gripped me about this book? EVERYTHING!

As some of you may know, this is the latest book by the author of Into The Wild (Heh. I just re-read my review of that book. I gushed there too), and this one is also based on a fairy tale.

It's based on East of the Sun, West of the Moon , and when my mother saw me reading this she said(justifiably), "Is that another book based on east of west moon sun?" And I am here to tell you: no it is not.

I haven't read East but I have read Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow. And I'm telling you, even if you have read those, this book will keep you on your toes! Durst brings in such an interesting mix of fairy tale, folklore, culture, and... I don't want to say religion, because that's not quite what it is, but if you read it you'll understand.

Just a quick squeaky: it's for a slightly older audience than Into the Wild (I'm gonna say... 14+, due to mild swearing, and married people doing what married people do).


Well? Are you hooked? Have I won you over? Are you dying to get your hands on this book as soon as it comes out?!

How about I help you out with that?

I'm not going to officially announce a contest until Monday. But let's just say it's in your best interest (and mine) to become a follower of my blog before then (you'll notice that the author of this book is! HI SARAH!!).

Tee hee. I'm so excited!
~Enna Isilee

More Snyder! Are you excited? I am.

This is the last book in Snyder's AMAZING Study series, I won't be giving any plot summary because if you haven't read Poison Study, or Magic Study I don't want to give anything away.

So, I will just say this:

All of these books are fantastic and are definitely Squeaky Books.

ALSO they are not typical YA fantasy books. I would say they gear more towards adult fantasy, though not enough to throw me off. The characters are just older, and some of the themes are more mature. I would say a 15+ series.

This was probably my least favorite in the Study series, but I still loved it. If I had to rank them, I'd do it Poison, then Magic, then Fire. But there's a very small margin between them. Just like Forest Born is my least favorite of the Bayern books, but I love them all so much, that it's still one of my favorite books.

Makes sense?

That's all I'm going to say, and I know that makes this kind of a lame review, but I think I've said all there is to say in my two previous reviews (links above) to the books in this series.

But hey! At least I'm reviewing again, right? Wahoo!!

~Enna Isilee

Hooray! It's my birthday! As you get older, that seems to mean less and less, but I'm still excited!

And as my birthday present, let's just pretend these last three weeks of non-posting never happened, okay? I have book reviews and contests, and maybe a reading challenge coming up.

I'll make it up to y'all!

~Enna Isilee