Ice Crypt
By Tiana Warner
4.5/5
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About this ebook
From award-winning author Tiana Warner comes the sequel to Ice Massacre, the #1 Amazon Kindle Best Seller.
Meela has just returned from the Massacre—the annual attempt to wipe out the mermaids threatening her people’s survival. After forming an unlikely connection with Lysi, a mermaid she was trained to kill, Meela is determined to stop the war between humans and merpeople for good. She knows of a legendary weapon that could bring peace if she uses it against King Adaro, ruler of the Pacific Ocean. But her people have plans for future Massacres and refuse to help her uncover it.
While Meela works in secret to unearth the Host of Eriana, Lysi is held captive under Adaro’s tyranny. Sent to the battlefront, Lysi joins forces with a band of rebels that could either bring her freedom—or have her executed for treason.
Separated by the vast Pacific Ocean, Meela and Lysi must find a way to defeat King Adaro and end the war that has been keeping them apart.
Tiana Warner
Tiana Warner is a writer and outdoor enthusiast from British Columbia, Canada. She is best known for her critically acclaimed “Mermaids of Eriana Kwai” trilogy and its comic adaptation. Tiana is a lifelong horseback rider, a former programmer with a Computer Science degree, and a dog mom to a hyperactive rescue mutt named Joey.
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Reviews for Ice Crypt
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ice Crypt is a worthy sequel to Ice Massacre but different in style.
Ice Massacre was a dark edge-of-your-seat action packed adventure with two female armies fighting to decimate each other. It was a true grit blood bath that I loved and I'm not even a fan of blood.
In Ice Crypt we get a much slower, balanced story with alternating view points between the main characters Meela and Lysi. Lysi's storyline is more action based while Meela's is a meandering of sorts where we feel her frustration and angst. Lysi needs to get back to Meela at all costs and Meela needs to figure out the mystery behind something she's not even sure exists. It makes for a rhythmic read with alternating chapters of intensity and slow down, intensity and slow down. It gave the pacing a kind of limp along action that I'm not entirely pleased with but was okay enough. However, the slow down isn't boring or unnecessary, either. Both storylines reveal the characters and weave together well. Towards the end, both narratives storm into action which Warner has a good knack of writing. There's a lot of imagination in this and it's fun to read.
My only gripe is that everything was fleshed out so well through the majority of the book and then a few things were resolved very quickly (too quickly?) in the last couple of chapters. I would have liked to have seen those elements get drawn out more or perhaps had the supporting characters show deeper ambivalence.
My personal preference lies in the first book because I'd never read anything like it. This second book, however, gives us richer depth into both main characters and is written well.
I definitely would not recommend reading this as a standalone book. If you haven't read the first installment turn yourself around and read it. It'll give you the backstory of the friendship, desperation, darkness, characters, allegiances, and folklore that the second book is built upon.
Overall, it's a good continuation of the series. I'm excited to read where the adventure takes us in the third book.