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- One of my favorite books of all time
- Characters were great.; They jumped off the page
- More than a BDSM book
- Joey W Hill strikes again
- WOW!!! A truly emotional read worth reading over and over!
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Ice Queen
Joey W. Hill
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One of my favorite books of all time.......2007-09-04
I loved this book so much that I re-read it immediately after I finished it for the first time. Marguerite is a domme, and she has had a crush on Tyler, also a dom, for a long time. They both 'play' at the same BDSM club. Matters some to a 'head' (no pun intended) when Marguerite is forced to fullfil a requirement of the club to train as a submissive with one of the club's Masters, in order to make her a better Mistress. Marguerite has a huge problem giving up control, and in choosing Tyler with whom to fulfill the requirement, she's inadvertently chosen just the man to dive into her most forbidden emotional areas.
This is a beautiful story of someone who has built barriers in her life - for legitimate reasons, and of a man who's love for her drives him to invade all her private spaces and uncover the secrets that prevent her from moving forward with her life.
The secondary characters are also wonderful. This is a book rated X for Extreme. One of those Extreme scenes is toward the beginning, and the character there, who you think you'll never see again, returns to play an important role later in the book(s). He is such a fasinating character, that he'll be getting his own book soon (yippee!)
Characters were great.; They jumped off the page.......2007-08-04
Character develpoment was excellent! So many BDSM erotica I have read does not give you much character insight. It is Dom meets sub; they have sex and BDSM activities; they get together in the end. But you don't feel the affectin/love between them. This book was not like that.Yuo care about the charaters and waht happens/happened to them.
This book was good. I also enjoyed her other book Natural Law.
More than a BDSM book.......2007-05-29
WOW!! I don't know what to say about this book. It was fantastic, intense and emotional. Joey Hill is such a talented writer. This book never tells you what has happened to make Marguerite the way she is yet from the beginning, through Ms. Hill's writing, you can feel her intense, soul deep emotional pain. It pulls at your heart strings. haunts you, makes you feel her pain even though you don't even know what she has gone through and makes you just want to wrap her in your arms and tell her that everything will be ok (I say this from a Mother's point of view). Due to Joey Hill's wonderful writing skills you can feel how strong she is yet how hard she works to hide (even from herself) how fragile and emotionally damaged she is. Tyler is a wonderful compliment to Marguerite. He has his own demons and recognizes who Marguerite really is underneath the cool, calm exterior that everyone else sees. I absolutely can't wait until the sequel comes out in print it will definitely be a "must have" book for me.
Joey Hill is an absolutely fantastic writer. I don't think I've read anything (and I have read literally thousands of books) that has put me through such an emotional roller coaster. She doesn't just put words on the paper for us to read - she puts them there for us to FEEL and we do!
Joey W Hill strikes again.......2007-01-22
JWH is incredible. Her books are so deeply emotional that you (almost) don't care about how erotic they are. All of them are well written, well developed, and multi-dimensional. She is one of my top favorite erotic literature authors.
WOW!!! A truly emotional read worth reading over and over!.......2007-01-15
Referred to as the ICE QUEEN, Mistress Marguerite is very well known and respected within the walls of The Zone, an exclusive BDSM club she frequents. Marguerite thrives on control and routine in her personal life as well as her Domme life. She never looks anyone directly in the eyes, never picks the same sub twice, and allows very little to no physical touching. All of these are traits that have not gone unnoticed by fellow Dom, Tyler, and he fully intends to break through the ICE QUEEN's frosty exterior and get to the woman beneath.
Tyler Winterman is a part owner of The Zone as well as a Dominant himself. Because of a computer error Marguerite never fulfilled the terms of the mentoring program that is required by the club, which includes her learning about BDSM from the subs point of view. Tyler sees this glitch as his chance to get to know Marguerite as a woman. The more Tyler gets to know her, the more he's intrigued, but will he be able to break through the mental barriers Marguerite keeps erecting?
Marguerite has been a Domme at The Zone for almost two years. The idea of playing the part of a sub for another Dom terrifies her. She invites Tyler to meet with her at her business, Tea Leaves to discuss this requirement. Once Tyler mentions that he's a part owner of the club, Marguerite tries to convince Tyler to lie for her. He has other ideas for her and they require that she go through with the training. He wants to see her lose that control. From watching her over time, he's aware that she always holds back with her subs, and everything appears synchronized. He knows that she's an excellent Domme, but wonders if she could possibly be a switch. Her physical reaction to his presence is more of what he'd expect from a submissive. However, to uncover the real Marguerite, he'll have to brave the violent reactions she exhibits when feeling threatened in any way.
Joey W. Hill's ICE QUEEN will take readers deep into the more intense BDSM club scene. Both Marguerite and Tyler are well-known Dominants, but you get the sense that Marguerite is hiding behind her ICE QUEEN image - like she's playing a part. I am so impressed with Tyler and the extreme patience and understanding he exhibits with Marguerite. ICE QUEEN had me so hooked I just made the trip over to Ellora's Cave and purchased the first two books of Ms. Hill's NATURE OF DESIRE series and anxiously awaiting the next book MIRROR OF MY SOUL (in print) which contains the rest of Marguerite and Tyler's story.
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A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world‹my world, at any rate." Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university. Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red). Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal. Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back. The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility.
Hoffman's story advances with a feline economy of language and movement--not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative. Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale's harsh mercies (e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter), Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. --Regina Marler
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A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world#139;my world, at any rate."Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university.Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red).Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal.Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back.The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility.Hoffman's story advances with a feline economy of language and movement--not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative.Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale's harsh mercies (e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter), Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. --Regina Marler
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Wonderful, deep, incredible book........2007-09-09
I just read a review in which someone said "The Ice Queen Stinks"...I can not for the life of me believe that...from now on in I'm not going to be able to trust another review. This book is so beautiful. And more so, because my father died two years ago and sometimes when I see a butterfly, especially a Monarch, I know it's him.
I also feel sad for the person who didn't finish this book, because the end was incredible and it's where you start really caring about the characters (esp. the main character). I think Hoffman intended on making the main character not very likable, because she (the main character) didn't like herself. Anyway...10 stars, in my opinion.
Tough, but good, read.......2007-08-23
This is an interesting book. I can't say I enjoyed reading it, but I'm certainly glad I did. The outlook for much of the book is so bleak, that I found myself wanting to stop reading. On the other hand, the writing and story were captivating, I couldn't stop. Definitely a book that makes you think, but mostly about things you try to avoid thinking about. So it's probably a pretty healthy thing to pick up.
I Was Awestruck.......2007-08-21
I can barely find words. I have read alot in my fity years of life. I have been busy of late and read this because I wanted to go to the Book Club Dinner. I was absolutely taken, hijacked, awakened. I was in a state whereby I did not sleep or eat and did nothing but read . With the main person nameless I wondered why I was so enamoured. I loved every word, every moment drove me awakened every emotion. I loved and hated and felt every feel ing of each character. I could not belive how this novel embraced me. I have paced it to a loved friend. It too oer one week for me to actually walk out of the life of tis book and back into my own...Reading this is a must
Another Book I Couldn't Finish.......2007-05-24
While this started off with an interesting and unique storyline, I found myself wholeheartedly unable to connect with a single character. I was only thirty pages to the end and I realized that, quite frankly, I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Back on the shelf it went: ending unknown and curiousity nonexistent.
What a disappointment.......2007-03-11
Let me say at the beginning that Alice Hoffman is my favorite novelist, and I love her sense of magic.
Now let me say that "The Ice Queen" stinks.
All the glowing reviews quoted at the beginning of the copy I read must have been mailed in, or else they read a different book than I did. Normally, I care deeply about Hoffman's characters, but in this one I never cared at all about any of them except Nina and Renny, a couple of peripheral characters.
The "magic" in this novel, to me, is not magic but pure absurdity. Making love in a tub of cold water because her lightning-struck lover is so hot? Puh-leeze.
And all the promised eroticism just wasn't there. Lazarus Jones was pure cardboard (ok, singed cardboard, but still cardboard) and although we are supposed to believe that he has melted this ice cold woman, it just didn't seem so compelling to me.
Moles and bats appear repeatedly throughout this book. Uh huh.
One of my pet peeves is authors who repeat a phrase again and again as if they think their reader is too dense to get the point otherwise. To my deep disappointment, Hoffman is guilty of that again and again in "The Ice Queen."
Toss in the tired and too-easy device of having someone die of something at the end, and I was beyond let down with this book. In fact I had to slog through the entire thing whereas I devoured her "Second Nature" in two days and thought about it for a month after.
It's dark. It's filled with unfortunately un-charming, unlikely nonsense. (and I LOVED "Aquamarine", so it isn't that I just don't like imagination...I do!) Skip this and read "The River King" or "Blue Diary" or one of the others I have mentioned in this review. Ugh.
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Reveals the hard edge of this skating star.
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A STUNNING BOOK.......2000-07-03
As one of the critics says; this i s indeed a pageturner... However, there are numerous faults facts in this book. Among them includes that the film IT`S A PLEASURE was a Fox film. Wrong, it was produced by International and released by RKO. Several critical comments on her films are stolen from among others Leslie Halliwell, a notable filmcritic and the ONLY bible for moviebuffs until internet movie database came along. Stories of Sonja and Tyrone are also way over the top; the talk they had in the dressingroom - how did Leif Henie and Raymond Strait get hold of t h a t? Leif was still in Norway at the time. However. There are several items that distinguish this biography; the stories by Sonja`s secretary Dorothy Stevens in particular... It is true that in creating the ice-skating star Sonja Henie, her father created a monster. But in the long run Sonja suffered from it. She was never taught to be a normal person. And indeed: She gave Norway a place in the sun and donated with her third husband Niels Onstad the Henie-Onstad ArtGallery near Oslo. U should visit it if u came to Norway. All of Sonja`s medals and trophies are in a well-guarded room and photos etc from her films are displayed in a huge basement. It must never be forgotten that she gave our nation a great deal - indeed giving the community of Bærum a home for retired people. U WILL see this reading this book that she was a trouper - a woman who was taught to fight and be competetive. And everything she tried her hands on - became lucrative.
Hell on Ice.......1999-10-30
I know and have known quite a people who worked with Sonja or were as close a friend as she would permit and this book seems to confirm all that I've heard over the last 40 years. I met Sonja in 1963 in Pittsburgh at the opening of the Pittsburgh Arena. Despite all her shortcomings as a person, there was something about her that fascinates me as a skater and as a person. Anyone interested in skating should read this book.
Facinating book!.......1998-12-30
For those who loved to watch Sonja Heine, this book is a must, showing her amazing rise to fame, volatile temperment and unbelievable perserverance. You won't be able to put it down from start to finish.
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As featured in Elle, Bust, the Boston Globe, the New York Times and on "Today," "Good Morning America," and the Oxygen television network
In this groundbreaking book, top executive coach and bestselling author Jean Hollands explains how being a "Bully Broad" is not the way to business success for women. Tough, assertive, authoritative, often intimidating, Bully Broads were once the driving forces behind some of this era's most successful companies. Unfortunately, Hollands explains, these same qualities that propelled women up the corporate ladder can ruin them in today's relationship-building, teamwork-oriented corporate culture.
Drawing upon her 20 years of experience coaching thousands of executives at many top companies, Holland's Same Game, Different Rules includes 25 rules that help women pass through, or completely avoid, the Bully Broad stage without compromising their goals or sacrificing their hard-won power and success.
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Rise to the top and stay there without becoming a B@#%!
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Stop bowing to the stereotypes - and CHANGE THE RULES!.......2004-02-02
Although Hollands book may move some women's careers forward, she is also setting back most women in all fields a few dozen years! Equal opportunity for women is still a long way off. Each time a woman succumbs to theories like Hollands' ''bully broads,'' she not only halts progress, she takes a giant step into the past. The challenge is to speak out about gender discrimination, not bow to it. The challenge is to rid the workplace of stereotypes -- not pay homage to them. Until we do, executive women will still be called "bully broads," while men are applauded for their aggressive, take-charge business style! (Marion E. Gold is author of "Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU," and "TOP COPS: Profiles of Women in Command."
Stop bowing to the stereotypes - and CHANGE THE RULES!.......2004-02-02
Although Hollands book may move some women's careers forward, she is also setting back most women in all fields a few dozen years! Equal opportunity for women is still a long way off. Each time a woman succumbs to theories like Hollands' ''bully broads,'' she not only halts progress, she takes a giant step into the past. The challenge is to speak out about gender discrimination, not bow to it. The challenge is to rid the workplace of stereotypes -- not pay homage to them. Until we do, executive women will still be called "bully broads," while men are applauded for their aggressive, take-charge business style! (Marion E. Gold is author of "Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU," and "TOP COPS: Profiles of Women in Command."
Less Iron Fist, Stiletto Tongue, Sneering Glare, and Iciness.......2001-11-06
Imagine a woman who is no nonsense, aggressive, bright, extremely capable, hard-working, very focused, and willing to take charge who is the top performer in her organization. Sounds like a future CEO, doesn't she? Jean Hollands predicts that this is a woman who will rise near the top of her organization, but will then hit the glass ceiling so hard she may be shattered. Such women are usually referred for coaching (if they haven't already been fired) to make them less like bullies. "No one likes a bully. Even so, in today's business climate, many men can get away with it. Women almost never can."
Ms. Hollands reports that she knows the type well. "I'm from a long line of Bully Broads." Although that term may sound pejorative, Ms. Hollands reports that everyone knows what it means and it avoids using other "B" words that are more pejorative.
While the men that she coaches are sent for a variety of weaknesses, 95 percent of the women are there to get rid of Bully Broad characteristics.
There are a number of different types of Bully Broads, including Sounding-Off Tyrants (who verbally blow up a lot), Sarcastic Aggressives (who use words to cut others down to the floor), Selectively Quiet but with High Expectations (perfectionists who let their disapproval of others' performance show), and Silent, But Judging (Ms. Understood, and whose reserve and mental point-scoring is seen as disdain or worse). The book has a quiz to help identify if you have any of these problems. Bully Broads seem to be immune to realizing they have a problem until it is too late because they don't measure themselves very much by what others think of them. Basically, these are people with low emotional intelligence, the attribute that most equates to success in typical business situations.
The heart of the book can be found in the cases (usually two per rule) that show how a variety of women in many different kinds of jobs and organizations walked the plank without realizing they had a problem. Each rule then goes on to suggest ways to change (even if you only have the problem slightly), how to deal with a colleague or boss who has these characteristics, and specific suggestions for how to communicate better. Many of the 25 rules will seem obvious, but apparently they aren't to some successful women, such as "Don't Tick Off the President, the CEO, or the Human Resources Person."
I won't list all of the rules (space doesn't permit, and that wouldn't be fair to the author), but let me give you a few examples to help provide a flavor for the book:
"`Listen Up' Until You Are About to Throw Up"
"People Will Sabotage You If They Can't Confront You"
"Beware of Jealousy"
"Don't Burn Bridges -- Ever"
"Soft Sell Is the Best Sell"
"Remember: It's Not Your Money"
"Avoid All or Nothing Thinking"
"You Are Not Joan of Arc."
The messages are strong, because many women who need them apparently are in denial. For example, I was fascinated by one story about a woman who was fired and didn't emotionally realize it until about two years later since she continued to work out of her old office as a "consultant" to the company, and kept up her old ways.
The irony of many of these stories is that the woman involved often has a CEO or boss who sets a bad example as a bully or polishes his image by letting the Bully Broad do the dirty work of carving people up for his benefit (the old "good cop, bad cop" routine).
The main weakness of the book is that it's aimed at helping a small percentage of women improve their career prospects. The bulk of the potential readers will be victims of Bully Broads who need protection. If you are either a Bully Broad or a Bully Broad victim, this book can really help.
On the other hand, I hope that many human resources people will read this book as well so that their company can help head off bullying situations, whether they are caused by women or (more frequently) by men.
How many things can be accomplished faster and better by having more than one person cooperate with one another? Almost everything. Find ways to make that cooperation smoother, more pleasant, and more effective for all involved!
Be the leader you would like to have!
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Detailing the land of Kislev in lavish detail, this book presents both the people and the places of the Ice Queen's realm. Inside you will find Kislev careers and creatures as well the secrets of Ice Magic revealed for the first time.
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Bartlett and the Ice Voyage
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Bartlett's Ice Voyage Adventure.......2007-04-07
In the novel Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, a very powerful queen is not satisfied with the taste of the fruit she is provided with, and wants to taste a melidrop, a rare and delicious fruit that spoils the day it is picked. The queen asks one of her most trusted advisors what she should do. The advisor recommends a certain explorer named Bartlett to retrieve a melidrop from across the ocean. The queen finds it hard to believe that someone could bring it on a nine-week voyage across the sea without spoiling. Bartlett and his partner, Jacques le Grand, ponder how they could get a melidrop back to the queen without spoiling. They go on a long trip across the sea to the country where melidrops grow most abundantly. They ask the owners of a melidrop field what they should do. One of them, a mere boy, offers to help them with this seemingly impossible task. His family offers to give them shelter, food, and water for a night while they recuperate. Then, while Bartlett is thinking about how cold the water is, his train of thought triggers an idea. He goes to the harbor and looks for a captain who is willing to take his ship into the frigid waters of the arctic sea. They find one captain who agrees to take them up to the Arctic Ocean. They want to find an iceberg large enough to preserve a melidrop for nine weeks on the voyage back to the queen's palace. After searching in vain for an iceberg the right size, they decide to go back. Along the journey back however, they find a stray iceberg just the right size. They go back to the melidrop farmers and ask for the tastiest melidrop in the orchard. It is given to them, and the challenge now is to get to the queen within the deadline time. They make it and the queen is so grateful that she funds an exploration of the Margoulis Caverns; the largest chain of unexplored caves in the world.
I liked this story because it had funny characters and twists and turns that really left you thinking. This imaginative tale will be cherished for a long, long time. It is a true masterpiece, and should be read by anyone and everyone who enjoys quirky tales with unusual but hilarious characters
Charming!.......2003-03-21
What a lovely book! I would recommend this to those who have enjoyed the Gail Carson Levine Princess Tales books, as well as anyone who like a story with a little adventure, a little humor, and a good ending. The author's descriptions of the luscious melidrop made me long for them to be real!
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Opening the castle to visitors promises the answer to King Clifford's financial woes. But it all goes horribly wrong in the third story about Prince Paul and his friends. 11" x 10" For children ages 5-8 years.
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A Royal Treat.......2000-07-25
A king discovers that there is no money left in "the royalpurse" and panics to find a way to raise money for the royalpeople at the castle. Suggestions are given and it is finally decided that the castle will be opened to the public, with admission charged to those who enter. In order to draw people to the castle, ice cream, created by Dr. Potamus, is promised to each guest. The incompetent "royal chart-maker" creates a map to the castle and the ice cream is made for the anticipated guests. When the princes and princess of the castle find lines of people walking to their uncle's castle across town instead of their castle, they begin to worry. How were they going to get all those people to their castle before the ice cream melted? This book was entertaining and fun to read, as it provided plenty of dialogue between the unique characters. It was also neat to see how the children in the story were involved in making decisions for the castle. There was a great deal of sarcastic humor used in the story, which makes this story funny to older children as well as younger children. The colorful watercolor illustrations provided an action-packed visual image of the action that was taking place in the story.
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- Sorry but not one of his best works ..
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One of the most dominant conquerors of all time, King Rahn was a man who could have any woman he wanted. The Ice Queen was his most beautiful courtier, but she treated the king with a regal disregard unheard of in the kingdom. Rahn was not one to tolerate such insubordination. She would submit to his will and learn to serve her lord in the fashion he had come to expect.
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Sorry but not one of his best works .........2004-04-26
thats for sure cause this author KNOWS erotica ....
The book deals with a mythical land and a powerfull king, Rahn, who rules with a firm hand generally rapoing and pillaging those who do not pay him homage. He has a large harmen populated generally by the wives and daughters of deposed kings and war lords.
We really don't see the 'Ice Queen' until the middle of the book and even then she really doesn't capture the reader's attention appart from being just another one of the kings' women.
Actually that is really the problem, we can't identify with the king or many of the other characters including the confidant of the king who ia actually telling the story of the Fall of the Ice Queen .....
I gave it 3 stars but really only out of respect for the author since this one is probably a stinker ....
Touch and Go.......2002-02-04
I bypassed this with barely a glance a hundred times, strictly because of the picture. It needs a Luis Royo kind of thing in blazing red and gold, with raised swords and muscles, else, who can guess it's this kind of story? Bawdy, barabarous, set somewhere in ancient history, maybe even tribal Scotland. Cool! It loses points with me for anachronisms that I feel could have been avoided. Example: "gods" and "the Church". Not fair to judge it harshly for being so MALE - it is what it is. For what it is, I'd recommend it to those whose tastes run in that direction. And for me, well, it had it moments. A fast story, adequately written except for some weak editing. As a female, I was looking for something comparable to THE TATTOOED ROOD by the author of MANDINGO, say something like that but less inhibited. THE FALL OF THE ICE QUEEN is thoroughly uninhibited, but I'm still looking.
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Wings on My Feet
Sonja Henie
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000AXQ95W |
Product Description
Sonja Henie gives an intimate picture of her life from the earliest years in Norway and makes available for the first time a world experts instruction on skating. The world famous champion tells you how to ice skate by giving instructions for the basic fundamentals and then directs you in the performance of all the school figures. Each step is illustrated by action pictures
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