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| View Larger Image | Colder Than Ice (Mordecai Young Series, Book 2)
by Maggie Shayne
| | List Price: | $5.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 299458 | | Studio: | Mira | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 416 | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2005 | | Publisher: | Mira |
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Book Description
Seventeen years ago, government agent Joshua Kendall was part of the raid on the cultlike Young Believers. His own bullet killed an innocent girl, and he has lived with the guilt ever since. But a new assignment will reveal that the most shattering incident of Josh's life was nothing more than a lie. Elizabeth Marcum was that girl. She survived the bullet from the botched raid and now lives under a new identity in rural Vermont, hiding from the cult leader who has managed to elude capture all these years. But she's tired of running, tired of hiding. If Mordecai Young tracks her down, so be it. When Josh is sent to protect Elizabeth--and realizes who she is-he will do anything to keep her alive, including lying about who he is. But as Mordecai descends back into their lives they become targets in a deadly battle that threatens to shatter their last chance at life and love. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 13 reviews)
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Unlikable characters 
Why is it that so many romance writers only know how make a heroine strong by making her sarcastic? I really didn't get into the characters. The heroine was inconsistent - gullible one minute, suspicious and caustic the next. The hero was a good lier and of course had lots convoluted reasons that he needed to lie to her. Blah. If I'd had time to go to the book store, I wouldn't have finished this one.
February 05, 2007 | |
Unlikeable, unrealistic characters don't make good romance 
I was really looking forward to reading this book. It sounded fascinating. The basic storyline is that there was another survivor from the raid on the cult. She was supposedly accidentally shot and killed by a sniper's bullet. But really, she survived and was in a sort of unofficial witness protection. The female lead plays a role in the first book, the male lead is only alluded to as the agent who accidentally shot and killed a young woman during the raid. So in this story, the woman is now in a lot of danger because someone who wants her dead now knows she's alive. To protect her, the former agent who once thought he killed her is sent to protect her. He didn't know until he saw her who she was.
So it sounded utterly fascinating. Such an interesting dynamic. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to it's billing. The big problem with this story was that the characters weren't exactly likable, and certain dynamics presented in the first book are just not dealt with and they really needed to be. The woman just did not fit who she was presented as in the first book. In that one, she's got a certain personality and does certain things, but then in the 2nd book, she's soooo different, and the way she acted in the first book just isn't dealt with. It's makes it hard to find her realistic. As for the guy...he's who the title is based on, Colder Than Ice. In a lot of ways, he's a complete jackass. Sure in the end, they get together, but before that, I just couldn't accept his actions. He bugged me.
The storyline itself isn't too bad. I wanted to know what happened and I liked the progression. The characters just annoyed me. It really took away from the story. I still would have read it though if I'd known this ahead of time. The storyline's from the books are too intertwined. I'm just disappointed that it ended up kind of sucking when I thought it would be the best of the 3.
Rating: 2.5 / 5
July 07, 2006 | |
Loved It! 
After reading other reviews I really didn't understand how this book could not be liked!!! of course it is fantasy and romance and stupid guy tricks but I love the series and all the books gave me the entertainment they promised and let me know the future of my heroines!! it seems to me have all the elements to take this series even farther with what may come in the future from what started to long ago in the past. intrique. suspense. love and romance found it's way into my heart and I was not disapointed!!
December 10, 2005 | |
He thought he'd killed her - now he'd do anything to protect her 
Eighteen years ago, Josh Kendall was a young AFT agent. Part of a team surrounding a compound run by the psychotic, compelling leader of the Young Believers cult, Mordecai Young, Josh is involved in a disastrous shootout. Many of the teenagers held captive by Young are shot, including Elizabeth Marcum, seventeen years old, who is critically injured by a bullet traced to Josh's weapon. When he visits her in hospital, she's in a coma and the staff tell him that she won't survive the week.
Unknown to Josh, Elizabeth did survive. Seventeen years later, she faced Young again - told in THICKER THAN WATER - and as a result of that confrontation the FBI has given her a new identity. Now, she's Beth Slocum, living in a small Vermont town, always vigilant, trusting no-one but Maudie Beckham, the 70-something owner of the former Blackberry Inn. What Elizabeth - Beth - doesn't know is that Young has discovered where she's living and he's on his way to get her...
Tipped off, the feds have to do something, and Josh's former boss, now Beth's government contact, knows what. Every agent sent to protect Beth has been sent home with his tail between his legs - she knows a fed when she sees one, and she wants nothing to do with them. Josh was made a scapegoat by ATF after the raid and has owned his own security consulting business ever since. He's not a government man and, more importantly, will do anything to keep Beth alive. Hired to guard a woman he doesn't know, he gets the shock of his life when he recognises Beth Slocum as Elizabeth Marcum.
Lying to her from the moment they meet, Josh tells her that he's Maudie's grandson. In order to win her trust, as their relationship develops he tells her that he's attracted to her and, later, that he loves her. Although Beth is always suspicious and convinced that Josh is lying - despite another reviewer's comment that she believes Josh's thin tales - she hasn't enough to go on and, once she realises that Young is indeed in the area, she has to decide whether or not to trust Josh regardless that she knows he's lying to her. Besides, she's attracted to him. But will the truth, if and when it finally comes out, destroy her feelings for him? And will Young get to Beth and her loved ones despite Josh's vigilance?
I don't normally read romantic suspense, but I enjoy Shayne's writing and am not sorry that I picked up this book (though I now need to read the prequel and sequel too!). Themes of atonement and forgiveness are well addressed in here: is it possible to start over? Josh has to find that out not only in relation to Beth, but also with his son Bryan (a well-drawn secondary character). The villain is also not a cardboard cut-out nasty guy. Young is clearly psychotic, hearing voices in his head which tell him what to do. While he obviously has some psychic ability, he could have done with psychiatric help a long time ago. Convinced that everything he does, including commit murder, is for a greater good, serving the god who rules his life, he can't conceive of any of his acts as evil. And, in the end, he finds some good in himself by saving a life the `voices' intended him to kill. Redemption as a theme, indeed.
With a cast of interesting, lively and well-portrayed secondary characters, COLDER THAN ICE was an entertaining read and I look forward to reading the other books in the trilogy.
-wmr-uk
October 18, 2005 | |
I thought I'd already read it
I've been a big fan of Maggie Shayne since her Silhouette debut, but this book--I really thought it WAS the same book I'd already read (that WAS Thicker than Ice, there are 2)--I didn't realize they were different books until I went to decide which copy was in better shape to take to the used bookstore.
This is the first time I've been disappointed by Ms. Shayne.
June 17, 2005 | |
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