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The Ice Maiden - Jane Badrock

 


I'm delighted to be on the Book Tour for this book today.


Book Blurb :- 

Who is Maddie?

If she doesn’t find out…she’ll die.

Tormented by visions of a woman’s death, 

maths student Maddie’s search for answers


leads her to question her own origins


and puts her life in danger.


Who’s trying to kill her?


Why?


It’s the most critical problem she’ll ever have to solve…


And she’s only got three weeks.



Review


I found the book blurb on this one to be intriguing - and it certainly was...


Maddie is 20 and a uni mathematics student. A number of tragic events occur in her life, the first being the death of her Mother. This begins a quest to find out who she really is, but also to uncover who the woman is that she keeps seeing in her dreams. Helped by a dream scientist she begins to unpick the recurring dreams, but what is a dream and what is real?


The book has an enormous amount of self talk by Maddie. This initially threw me a little as I am not used to reading this amount of internal dialogue. I can say however that by the end of the book this style of writing made total sense. Also don't expect the book title to make any sense for quite some time!


This became a real page turner around half way through with so many red herrings that I began to suspect everyone of having a hand in the events that began to plague Maddie. I even suspected those I should have put in the clear, but so many weird things began to happen in the book that I started to doubt what was real and what was in Maddie's dreams. 


A satisfying ending which had me rethinking what I had read. It's a very clever storyline.


I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Zooloo's Book Tours for the invite and the ARC to review.



About the author


Jane writes novels, short stories and poems, usually with a good dose of humour in them. She's probably owes it all to her late grandmother who, she's just found out, also wrote short stories and poems. She tends to get an idea and then run with it whether it be a 100 word short story or an 80 thousand word novel. It all depends on the voices in her head at the time…

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Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Badrock/e/B07HZ2HD3Q

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18510015.Jane_Badrock


Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B098F578W2

Amazon US - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098F578W2

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  1. Zooloo's Book Tours25 August 2021 at 10:24

    Thank you so much for this fab review and for taking part in the tour today x

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