by Annabelle Blume
Release date: August
7, 2012
A decade surviving on her own. Three
days with the enemy. Can love conquer all?
Cressenda knows how to survive. With
her sled dogs as her only companions, she’s spent the past ten years hiding in
the snow covered wilderness from the oppressive regime of the Affinity. When a
routine trip to civilization takes a turn for the worst, Cressenda is forced to
take refuge with the enemy or lose her life to the frozen countryside.
But Beckett, a Guard of the
Affinity, is more than a man in uniform. His desperate need to help Cressenda
escape both the blizzard and the Affinity, makes her feelings for him all the
more troubling. Will Beckett be true to his word and set Cressenda free? Will
her heart let her leave after all they’ve shared?
My Review:
The
first half of Frozen Heart chills your blood, while the second warms your
heart.
My
favorite line, “Just because we don’t run away doesn’t mean we’re mindless
drones…”
Cressenda
lives alone in an ice age, a post-apocalyptic world where memories of a Green
Age still linger. If freezing to death isn’t enough, she must battle giant
snarly beasts made from genetic experiments, avalanches, Reapers, falling
icicles, and last but not least: The Affinity: a controlling, totalitarian
government that matches people in order to improve low birth rates. Phew!
That’s a lot.
While
trading in town, a thief grabs her bag. She knows she shouldn’t follow him, but
her anger gets the better of her, and she draws attention to herself. By a
stroke of luck, the handsome, guard that reads her key card is a sympathizer,
and doesn’t report her. She’s just about to leave when a blizzard warning
erupts over town, and her only chance is to follow the guard home, leaving her
vulnerable to everything she’s ever feared.
Annabelle
Blume creates an intriguing sci fi world. I loved reading about Cressenda’s
resourcefulness. She’s lived alone with her two sled dogs for ten years, and
she knows how to hunt, cook, fight Reapers, and even build a solar panel.
Beckett was a mystery to be unraveled, and my heart went out to him as I
learned his tragic story. The heat between them steams up their icy world.
Frozen Heart is a sci fi, dystopian novel with a blazing romance at its core.
Annabelle is a Science Fiction and
Urban Fantasy Romance author, that is, when she's not checking homework or
begrudgingly cooking dinner. Wife, mother, and creator of alternate worlds,
Annabelle has a penchant for that which is outside the norm.
Her Sociology degree did nothing to
progress her writing skills, but has given her the ability to construct worlds
that exist only in her head and translate them passionately to the page. The
time spent studying individuals, interpersonal relationships, and particularly,
women, within the constraints of our society led to Annabelle's unabashed
ability to talk about sex as it fits into our modern lives.
She's also the author/personality of
The Bombshell Mommy at Vitacost.com, where she expounds her knowledge of being
a vixen clad in sweatpants.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnnabelleBlumeAuthor
Twitter: @AnnabelleBlume
Web Site: www.AnnabelleBlume.com
1 comment:
I don't read much science fiction, but this is definitely something I would read! Sounds like a great book!
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