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A Taste of Ice (The Elementals) Mass Market Paperback – December 31, 2012

by Hanna Martine (Author)

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There is an untapped world of magic that any man would covet...

Five years ago, Xavier escaped from the Ofarian Plant. Today he calls a Colorado mountain town home. It’s there he buries himself in his work, swearing off magic and relationships—until a woman threatens every promise he’s made to himself.

Cat has always known she is different. Water speaks to her on an uncanny level, and she channels this gift into beautiful painted waterscapes. Now, a gallery is debuting her work in Colorado—and it’ll reveal far more about her than she imagined.

The spark between Cat and Xavier is enough to throw both of them off balance. Every tantalizing moment sends them dangerously close to a rising flood of desire. Dangerous because Xavier comes to suspect that Cat is an Ofarian—his people’s enemy. But they’re both about to discover a far greater, more malicious power at play...

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368 pages
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English
Publisher

Berkley
Publication date

December 31, 2012
Dimensions

4.25 x 1 x 6.75 inches
ISBN-10

0425257258
ISBN-13

978-0425257258
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Hanna Martine has loved stories—particularly the romantic kind—since she was very young. She spent a decade working in an office, but has since dedicated herself to writing. She’s traveled to many wonderful places around the world, including the haunted Scottish castle in which she got married.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Reissue edition (December 31, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425257258
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425257258
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1 x 6.75 inches

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Hanna Martine writes sexy, character-driven romance novels in several different sub-genres. Sometimes there's magic (paranormal); sometimes there isn't (contemporary). She left a decade of office work in order to show her daughter what it meant to go after your dream. She loves bar stools, the imaginary world, travel and her friends. Though she and her family live outside Chicago, her heart resides in Australia.

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melindeeloo

A 'tasty' treat - former bad guy Xavier is a great damaged leading man

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2013

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A Taste of Ice was very steamy but very good - this is the second of Martine's Elementals series and these are romances with scifi elements that have a very PNRish feel.

The leading man, Xavier, started out as a 'bad' guy in the previous book, Liquid Lies (The Elementals), before making a very heroic sacrifice. When we run into him again here he is still very damaged - his past is ugly and very hard to leave behind - but Xavier has found a way to cope although it is by keeping himself very controlled and very isolated, so he doesn't really fit into our world. All that changes when he meets his leading lady artist Cat, her innate joy calls to him and makes him want to try to reach beyond the isolation that has helped him to survive. But what really connects the pair beyond an immediate and intense physical attraction, is that Cat's 'need' to paint is very similar to Xavier's 'need' to cook and they 'get' each other on that level.

Since Xavier's damage is very tied to his sexuality (and abuse connected to that), I was worried that the author was going to squick me out when she got to the sensual parts of the romance, but that wasn't the case and this is one of those stories where the sensual parts were key to the story and not just a sex break - and while Xavier's relationship with Cat is very steamy, they are not just about sex.

In addition to the romance, there are also other things going on story wise having to do with other 'special' not quite humans involving kidnappings and a major drama when two past lovers meet. Though I did have some minor nits with the way some of these other parts played out - the most significant being that there was a part of the story in which Xavier's past comes knocking that was totally predictable - I do have to say that the ending was so well done that it overcame all of those nits.

So I enjoyed A Taste of Ice even more than I liked Liquid Lies (you could probably read this story without having read that book.) Now I am very much looking forward to Griff's story, and I am so happy to have just discovered that he gets a whole book, I thought that the upcoming short in Unbound (anthology) was his, so glad I was wrong.

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LD Cudd

Even more exciting than the first book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2013

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I enjoyed reading the first book in the The Elementals and definitely had planned on reading this one(especially after reading the teaser at the end of the first book). Wow, did this second book really deliver! I really liked how Ms. Martine is opening up the Elemental world to let us see more than just the water people. I also really felt for Xavier and what he had been put through by the Ofarians. I so wanted him to get his happily ever after but I am glad that the author did not have him just "get over" his past in the blink of an eye like some books do - it helped to see his struggles and that the heroine stilll stood by him. If you have not read the first book in the series, then I definitely think you should before reading this one. I can hardly wait for the next story!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2014

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This is her second book. And she has quickly become one of the most talented writers to come along in a while. She has created a world that is complex and full of feeling. It's hard to believe that she has just begun what will be a very long career in writing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2014

I enjoyed 'Liquid Lies', especially the character of Gwen, so when I bought 'A Taste of Ice', I was anticipating the same level of character development and a strong, intelligent Heroine. Xavier was very much what I happily anticipated. The tortured soul of 'Liquid Lies' has all the baggage one would expect from his experiences and more. He's struggling to find his place on earth while trying to control his inner demons. I think I fell in love with him from the start. His love interest, Cat, was another story. To me Cat always seemed too immature for Xavier. It was not only the way she acted - which at times was ridiculously naive - but the vocabulary and phrases the author used for her in speech and when writing from her point of view. She sounded far too much like a teenager than an adult. Cat's immaturity clashed with the way she was continuously described within the story as strong and intelligent. The plot then became a mess as Cat's behavior resulted in unbelievably positive results. As much as I liked 'Liquid Lies', I cannot recommend 'A Taste of Ice.' I will not be buying the next book in the series.

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Robin F Kuss

Fantastic Read - A Taste of Ice

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2013

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Get your copy of A Taste of Ice ASAP! I read this book, the second in the Elementals series, in practically one sitting. It's suspenseful, hot, has a great tortured hero, and is immensely satisfying. And the book introduces characters who I hope to get to meet in Martine's followup books.

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Fayls

fantastic to terrible in one book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 30, 2014

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The first half of this was a well written romance that made all the tropes and cliches work. The "damaged hero" was done particularly well in the first half , and being aliens, the abuse wasn't distressing because I knew in the back of my mind that this wasn't happening anywhere in real life. The second half of the book was so bad that it might have been written by someone else.

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