Ellison is one of my favorite authors, and I enjoyed this book a lot, if not quite as much as the first two. At any rate, I think it is easily as tightly plotted and interesting; I just liked the first one more because I loved the way Ellison introduces us into the world, and the second one because Adam had been one of the characters who interested me most from the first. A secondary note, but the copy has become much, much cleaner. There were a number of typos in the beginning chapters of this book, but by the end, there were none.

Here, we finally get some of the explanations that some critics of the first book were looking for: the origins of the Frost, and its rather peculiar, primitive society. I was disappointed that Adam disappeared just as Gabe reappeared, as I still highly favor Adam, but I appreciated having Gabe back again, as well.

How to summarize my feelings about this book? The plot is thickening, and the pace has picked up--not that I'd ever really accuse Ellison of slow pacing, from what I've read of her so far. A lot of interesting twists I'm excited to read more about. The only thing that I liked less about this book, besides Adam's disappearance, is that there's a bit more graphic violence, though by no means deeply graphic. I'm just supremely squeamish, and the other books didn't have any places where that might be activated, but this did, a little. ( )

Out of the Frost series so far this one has to be my favorite!

The first book followed a love story, the second introduces a love story and story of survival and the third takes you deeper into the lives of all the characters and finally gets Lia back with Gabe and through the ECHLOS learning where Gabe went and what that world holds.

I felt this book finally took the series into a more mature and in depth look at what was really behind all the secrets and yet there are still more secrets in store. Those secrets of course lead to a wide opening for book four which I will be much anticipating. ( )