Proceed With Caution:
This book contains violence, gore, death, and grown men lusting after a fourteen-year-old.
The Basics:
Iced is the sixth book of the Fever series, but the first book in a new trilogy starring Dani Mega O'Malley. She's a deadly fourteen-year-old with superhuman abilities and she's been recruited to help Ryodan figure out what's freezing his club patrons.
My Thoughts:
The first thing I noticed about Iced is that we've got a severely toned down version of Dani, which is a good thing. If you compare her chapters from the previous Fever books to this one, there's a stark difference, i.e. this one is easier to read. Dani is still her hyperactive, hormone raging self, but her language has been cleaned up making for a smoother reading experience.
I am still disturbed by Ryodan and Christian lusting after Dani. Ryodan is who-the-heck-knows years old, has lived countless centuries and millennia and has no business having dirty thoughts about a teenage girl. Sure, he's not a human man and has different morals and whatnot, but still. No. As for Christian, at least he knows his lust is wrong. He's a hot twenty-something dude who's turning into a death-by-sex Fae, and Dani is female, of course something is going to be stirring there. I still don't have to like it.
Iced is my last reread, and I also remembered nothing from it, so it's kind of like reading it for the first time again. It does pick up immediately after the big ending of Shadowfever, but like I said in that review, there's still work to be done. Dublin, and the rest of the world, is in ruins. Fae are still running amok, but now there's a new threat. Something is encasing everything in ice. Who is it? Why are they doing? Can it be stopped? Why is Ryodan so concerned about it (a point that bothered me to no end)?
Iced is a fun read, but it felt more like a standalone spin-off rather than a continuation or even the start of a new series. The plot is resolved and there no larger picture story going on unless you count Dani's preoccupation with avoiding Mac because she's afraid she'll kill her. Which unfortunately makes no sense and is just annoying because if you read Shadowfever (you better have!), we already know that Mac doesn't blame Dani. This better get resolved quickly, because it makes no sense and is forced for the sake of drama.