Cold As Ice: Cold As Ice

I am now an Anne Stuart fan!

Genevieve is a lawyer who is supposed to get some papers signed by one of her firms clients. Client is a rich good looking pervert terrorist named Harry. Genevieve doesn't know he is really a bad guy. Once aboard his yacht, she is tricked into spending the night, and when she wakes up the next morning she finds out that the yacht has been taken over by Harry's assistant, and that he plans to kill both her and Harry.

Our Hero has many chances to kill Genevieve, but Peter keeps putting it off. Even though he is a stone cold killer he has never had to kill an innocent woman who simply happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Genevieve is an idiot! Halfway through the book I was begging Peter to put a gun to her head and pull the trigger. She is supposed to have graduated from an Ivy league law school but she is TSTL.

I liked Peter at the beginning of the book, but then he kept trying to help Genevieve. Gah! Just let her die. He was also mean. He kept saying cruel things to her. I know he was just covering his own feelings, and trying to make her like him less, but I don't enjoy head games.

Call me a sappy romantic, but I don't like how this romance ended without the Hero telling the Heroine he loves her. That is just wrong wrong wrong.

Good book… not top score.

And I hate not being able to give his book my five-star rating. But I was thrown off the synopsis, and I don't like that.

Genevieve is a strong character, one who worked her way up and made a good life for herself, despite how it started. However, while she is very intelligent, she is a little on the naive side. And it takes her a lot longer than the synopsis says for her to see Van Dorn's true colors. Even when the action finally starts, she's still trying to save Van Dorn, still thinking that Peter is a terrorist.

Peter has one hell of a cold heart, but Genevieve manages to unthaw it, much to his chagrin. I think Genny was perfect for Peter - his balance, so to speak.

Although the book was a fast read, and good, it wasn't the greatest. It took a little more than halfway through the book for the action to finally begin, where the 'oomph' finally makes it's appearance, and it still took a little longer than that for Genevieve to finally see what Van Dorn's all about.

The ending, however, is just shy of perfect, but still excellent. I would have liked to see a little more reaction from Genevieve in the aftermath of what happened to Van Dorn.

While the synopsis threw me off, it isn't a bad book - I just expected more. I really liked the first book, Black Ice. I will be starting book three, Ice Blue, very soon.