Blood and Ice is Robert Masello's offering of a thriller suspense novel which is set in the Antarctic, making the story as cold and deadly as the setting itself.
The novel is about two male protagonists Sinclair Copley and Michael Wilde, both located in Antarctica, but separated by time. The story of the two however is parallel in so many ways, including their insatiable thirst for physical danger, and their grief and depression.
The lives of the two are suddenly meshed when Michael Wilde living the 20th century suddenly finds himself amazed at the struggle for survival in South Pole, the setting of the Crimean War in which Sinclair Copley was a part of hundreds of years earlier.
Robert Masello takes us through the 500-page novel in an easy breeze, the plot and characters unraveling naturally as we are also presented with the richness of Antarctica and the Crimean War, and leaves us hanging on the right moments, enough to make us want to know and find out more about the story.
His narratives in Blood and Ice about Antarctica is almost poetic, and we could almost see and feel everything about it as vividly as if we were there ourselves.
However, there are also minor low points for the novel. The complexity of the novel and the volume of information about the two protagonists somehow makes the novel a little too "cluttered". And aside from the already rich and overwhelming amount of color-so to speak-there is a distracting vampire story in the novel which is weirdly placed, albeit forgettable.
Overall though, Blood and Ice is a gripping thriller which would be difficult to put down. It may be a little dragging in some moments, but the wicked plot is enough to make us make it through reading the whole novel.
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