Customer Reviews

Icefire

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This book is one of the few that I just could not put down. The story is interwoven with such high-tech equipment and so believable that once you are in you can't let go. The military equipment mentioned in the book is on the edge of fiction and fact. A must read for anybody who is into a militaristic fiction plot that seems based on quite alot of fact.

Just finished Icefire, and thought that the action sequences on the Ice in the beginning were very good, but the suspense building moments in the Pentagon seem to bog the story down in a barrage of initials that even i lost track of their meaning. The Wave is portrayed in a truly frightening, and awe inspiring light. The sequence on the airstrip in Hawaii, and aboard a submarine was very moving, and scary. The hero Mitch Webber's ability to fly everything under the sun is explained, and I thought that the talent was an ingenius way to introduce to the reader ALL sorts of different aircraft. The last third of the book is excellent, but yes it does take a little time to get there. overall i say go ahead and buy it, but please be patient with it. Guys I still Love your work!!

I always thought my dad was crazy for reading all those Tom Clancy novels. Icefire turned my whole perception of techno thrillers around. As a reader who is just as interested in characters as plot lines, I found this book engaging from the get go. I also read to learn, and quite enjoyed delving into military jargon, solitons vs. tsunami, and my great love of the SR-71 Blackbird was quite satisfied with that amazing aircraft's role in the action. The Nevada Rain, of course, was just plain cool. The authors are also not afraid to kill people which I find painful and realistic. Death is the second inevitablity after taxes and it is a refreshing change from gold-plated characters who sometimes, maybe, get a hangnail or the poor "red-shirts" (the nameless guys in Star Trek who always bought it and were eulogized by a mournful Bones in some variation of 'He's dead, Jim.') The reader is energized and drawn into the drama because of this no nonsense, stark addition of death, no longer just irritated with those baddies but just aching to get the part where they get a taste of their own medicine. I have not heard about a film, but can't wait to see it should it become a reality. A great read, even if you don't much care for the genre because it incorporates so much more. It is so satisfying when you have a History Channel husband who starts with amazement at hearing CincPac roll glibly off your tongue.

This is my fisrt Judith and Gerald Reeves-Stevens novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I rated its as better than some of the works done by Clancy,cussler.

The Thriller was written with an air of plausibility. The tecnical details are described in a way anyone can understand. The characters in the story, Abbot, Webber, Rey, Bailey, Hurd are those you would identify with.

Do check out this book in your next visit to the bookshop or library.

I gotta hand it to Judith & Garfield...having read several of their Star Trek novels (far and away the best out there, too) I was taken by surprise when I noticed a techno-thriller with their name on it. I checked the wallet, found enough and got me a copy and took it home...fast forward a few days...!!!WOW!!! This book can rival just about any techno-thriller out there! If I were to have ANY criticism at all, it would be that at times the explanation of the tidal force unleashed at the bottom of the world was a bit over my head. Now I'm by no means a genius, but it certainly SOUNDED plausible. Fun and very fast paced, this locomotion in print is a MUST READ for any who enjoys a good action/adventure novel. By the way, the comparisons to Clancy and Cussler are TOTALLY deserved.

This book was well-written, but it got boring at times. The authors used WAY too many abbreviations for things (like government agencies, etc.). How are we supposed to keep them all straight? NORAD, NEST, OPCOMM, NCMM, NSCS, etc, etc, etc. It's quite confusing in that respect. Otherwise, it was decent and entertaining for the most part.

The plot of "Icefire" presents an interesting concept that was exciting and not unbelievable but bogged down with countless references to real or imagined acronyms. It seems that at times the story line was contrived just to accomodate the use of obscure military/civilian communications and surveillance systems. There was also an excessive use of commas throughout the book.

I enjoyed the book and thought it was an above average techno-thriller but it could have been better with more emphasis on characters and less techno babble.

Good techno-thriller. Some of the tech is far out, as is the man-made crisis the story hinges on. The story has the requisite two-dimensional characters, but is ultimately a lot of fun. The authors are quite prolific, unfortunately it looks like most of their recent output has been Star Trek novels. Ick.

This was a great book! I really enjoyed it. The action was fast and exciting, the characters were intriguing and realistic, and the plot terrifying in its real world possibilities. I never wanted to put the book down because each chapter ended with me wanting to see what happen next. I also loved the technology in this book. The tech aspect of the novel was not too deep and futuristic but played along nicely with the real world background needed for a story of this kind. It makes me wonder just what was created for the story and what really exists in today's military. If you like "The Hunt for Red October" I think you will love this book. I give it two thumbs up!

A well written, very suspenseful and almost believable story. Holds your interest all through. Gives thorough background when laying a scene. Action packed suspense. A very good read.