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Frozen Stiff by Mary Logue

lelia_t's review against another edition

1.0

This seemed almost like it was written for middle schoolers, with a sex scene added to make it more adult. Characters aren’t particularly developed - even Claire Watkins seems barely there. The most significant character is the cold. Logue has a school marm’s primness about video games and she could use an editor who checks continuity and facts. Details relating to the properties of snow in extremely cold weather and to firearms seem inaccurate, which stopped the flow of my reading. Action scenes didn’t make much sense. The time stamp that precedes each section is distracting since characters say they’ll do something in 10 minutes but the time stamp lets us know 30 vital minutes have elapsed instead with no explanation. The investigation seems to consist of Claire asking Rich what he would do in a certain situation. And conversations like the one in which Rich says “Makes a convoluted sense” and Claire replies “Isn’t that the only kind of sense there is?” had me worrying about her capacity for logic and reason.