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    Blood and Ice

    Written by Robert Masello

    Narrated by Phil Gigante

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    Journalist Michael Wilde - his world recently shattered by tragedy - hopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. Here, in the most inhospitable place on earth, he is simply looking to find solace...until, on a routine dive in to the polar sea, he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man and woman, bound with chains and sealed forever in a block of ice. Beside them a chest filled with a strange, and sinister, cargo.

    Now, in a bleak but breathtaking world of shimmering icebergs, deep blue crevasses, and never-ending sun, Wilde must unravel the mystery of this doomed couple. Were they the innocent victims of fear and superstition - or were they something far darker? His search will lead from the barracks and battlefields of the Crimean War to the unexplored depths of the Antarctic Ocean, from the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade to an age-old curse that survives to this day.

    As the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt, Wilde will have to grapple with a miracle - or a nightmare - in the making. For what is dead, it turns out, may not be gone. And here, at the very end of the known world, there's nowhere to hide and no place left for the living to run.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 24, 2009
    ISBN9781423376927
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    Blood and Ice
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    Robert Masello

    Robert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of many novels and nonfiction books. His historical thrillers with a supernatural bent have been published in seventeen languages and include The Night Crossing, The Jekyll Revelation, The Romanov Cross, The Medusa Amulet, Blood and Ice, and the Amazon Charts bestseller The Einstein Prophecy. His articles and essays have appeared in such prominent publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, People, Newsday, Parade, Glamour, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, and the Wilson Quarterly. An honors graduate of Princeton University, Masello has also taught and lectured nationwide, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to Claremont McKenna College, where he served as visiting lecturer in literature for six years. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he now lives in Santa Monica, California. You may visit him at www.robertmasello.com.

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    • 4/5
      Terrible ending
    • 3/5

      Photojournalist Michael Wilde has been dealing with the aftermath of a climbing accident that put his fiancee in a coma. When he's offered a chance to go on a month long assignment to the South Pole, he hopes that the work and isolation will help him get back on track. A few days after arriving, he goes on a polar dive and discovers the bodies of a man and a woman frozen in a block of ice. Through dual narratives of 1854 and modern day, we meet the two lovers, Sinclair and Eleanor and discover how they ended up frozen in chains. As the ice around the murdered lovers begins to melt, we learn more about their terrible secret.

       

      I enjoyed this book and it's obvious that the author really researched both Antarctica and the Crimean War. It felt like it was two separate books, one set in the 1850s and the other set in modern day Antarctica. I thought the main character could have used a bit more detail but the secondary characters were interesting and really came to life. The first part of the books was slow, filling in details that we need to know about later. Overall, an enjoyable read and I would like to try another by this author sometime in the future.

       

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    • 2/5
      More reviews onmy blog

      I picked this up on one of my semi-regular charity shop runs, intrigued by the cover and by the book description. I’ve developed a bit of a liking for supernatural stories set in polar regions – witness my love of Dark Matter.
      But would this one do anything for me?

      I was suspicious, sadly, right from the prologue, which was completely overwritten and melodramatic. Still, I held out hope, and after that it seemed like things were improving. Until I was half way through, bored and wondering why – and then I realised! Nothing was happening.

      Seriously. I was two thirds of the way through before any of the plot lines started to intersect or pay off. And when they did pay off, it was deeply disappointing – the climax was too easy, everything happened. Despite the deaths and the trauma, there was no real sense of danger, or creepyness. The tragic love story wasn’t tragic, or a love story.

      It’s a shame, a real shame, because there was so much here that could have been great. But Masello tries to do too much with too little, and as a result the story drags and the characters feel like cardboard cutouts. I felt nothing, and I’m a woman who cries at books, who gets deeply entrenched in the world of a story, who treats characters like real people. But in the world of Blood and Ice, nobody is a real person. Events don’t happen naturally because of their character traits, things happen because they are made to happen, no matter how out of character it is. Foreshadowing is obvious, the sense of danger is not there, there is no real oomph.

      It’s a big, thick chunk of a book, and could easily have had at least a quarter edited out without doing any harm to the story. In fact, I think it would have done it good. It might have been better with more focus on the victorian lovers and their history, properly building up how unnatural they were. It certainly would have been better if the fear had been slower building, the awful events had seemed to actually matter, and if all the ‘horror’ hadn’t happened in the last third of the book.

      This gets a lower mark than it probably deserves, just because I’m so disappointed. 2 stars.

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    • 2/5
      Als ich mit dem Buch anfing, wusste ich noch nicht, dass auch hier wieder mein Lieblingsthema aufgegriffen wird. Ich hatte vor allem einen Wissenschaftsthriller erwartet, etwas in der Art von Preston/Child oder Crichton. Der Vergleich mit Stephenie Meyer in der Presse hat mich allerdings schon hellhoerig gemacht, und bald war klar warum.Leider verraet das Buch gleich zu Anfang im Prolog viel zu viel, so dass die "Entdeckung" fuer mich keine Ueberraschung mehr dargestellt hat. Es war natuerlich interessant zu lesen wie sich die Geschichte entwickelt, allerdings haette ich mir ein bisschen mehr Spannung und Leidenschaft gewuenscht. Das Buch macht durchweg leider einen unterkuehlten Eindruck - was nicht am Schauplatz liegt, sondern an der sachlichen Art, mit der der Autor schreibt.So wirkte alles mehr wie ein nuechterner Bericht als ein packender Roman, der zudem ein paar Seiten zu lang war fuer meinen Geschmack. Ich habe mich zwar ganz gut unterhalten, aber dieses Buch wird mir bestimmt nicht als herausragendes Leseerlebnis in Erinnerung bleiben.

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    • 2/5
      Such a great idea, started off good, ended rediculously badly with the worst 'happily ever after' I have read!! 

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    • 3/5
      This book is one of those books where the Author has a brilliant idea and then ruins it by writing a half-assed ending. It starts brilliantly by telling you how Sinclair and Eleanor end up in the ice block, then in the next chapter switches to the present day, with Michael as the main character. The book continues to do the switching each chapter so you learn about Sinclair and Eleanor's life in the past, then Michael's life in the present. Then it slows down three quarters of the way through and finishes with a weak ending.I would have given this book 4 stars but every so often Robert Masello launches into extreme detail about the horrible ways animals kill each other and how humans kill animals. There seems to be no need for it either, it was kind of like he just felt like throwing it in the mix. Then he decides to throw in a leg amputation. Why? Guess he felt like it. I will say this is without anaesthetic so if you have a weak stomach it's probably not advisable.
    • 4/5
      An adventure that spans continents and centuries -- the story ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic research station, where journalist Michael Wilde uncovers a shocking discovery that has been trapped in an ancient glacier for nearly two hundred years.
    • 5/5
      December 28, 1856, in the Southern Ocean very close to Antarctica, the captain and crew of the Brig Coventry throw two of their passengers, husband and wife, overboard into the frigid black water.In the present day Michael Wilde photographic journalist is given a commission to write a feature about the work being done at Point Adelie in the Antarctic. On his first diving expedition in Antarctic waters he discovers frozen bodies trapped in an underwater glacier. What he doesn't expect is that they will wake.I've seen BLOOD & ICE categorised as suspense, thriller, fantasy, horror, and it certainly is a little outside my usual crime fiction fare. Certainly there is mystery, and there is murder, but Masello goes well beyond that in the themes that hold the plot together. Be prepared to have your credulity challenged. One reviewer wrote: riotous mix of history, cryogenics, vampirism, and a chilling adventure and he is not far wrong.BLOOD & ICE took me a little beyond my comfort zone, but I liked the strong evidence of research that underlies the book, whether it is of the historical period surrounding the Crimean War in the 1850s, or life in an Antarctic research station. The writing is very polished and the stories intertwine well. The character of Michael Wilde is further fleshed out with the story of his girlfriend Kristin existing on a life support machine, after a climbing accident.
    • 4/5
      On assignment in Antarctica at a scientific research station, travel writer Michael Wilde makes an unbelievable discovery while on a dive--a man and a woman, chained together, perfectly preserved in glacial ice. Told in alternating chapters of the couple's story in the 1850s and the present day. The suspense builds slowly, but it is still hard to put down. The paranormal/horror element of the story blends into the action so well, you'll believe every word of it. Highly recommend.
    • 5/5
      In 1856 the HM Brig Coventry, tossing in a wild maelstrom is thought to be cursed by two unwanted passengers. When an unusual bottle of wine is found by one of the crew members, the captain is hailed and warned that Mr. and Mrs. Copley are of evil nature. To save the ship from plummeting down to Davy Jones Locker, Sinclair and Eleanor Copley are bound in iron chains and with their sea chest of strange wine bottles, are tossed overboard to drown in icy seas. In present day Antarctica young wilderness photographer Michael Wilde is on location to shoot some underwater photographs for Eco Travel magazine. He has a two month pass to work with researchers and scientists assisting with various projects of weather, wildlife and the natural habit conditions at the South Pole. While diving beneath the polar ice cap with high hopes of stunning photographs, Michael unearths an antique bottle of what appears to be Madeira. Putting the old bottle in his scavenger sack and swimming further, he finds an entire sea chest of them, and nearby, within a sunken iceberg, the haunting face of a beautiful woman. Thinking his oxygen level must be affecting his coherency, he resurfaces topside to inform the crew of what he thinks he saw. Armed with ice cutting equipment and additional oxygen, Michael and another researcher dive again beneath the frigid waters and uncover the find of a lifetime. Two people, a man and a woman, frozen in time, enchained together in a block of ice for centuries. Cutting them free, hauling them above to safety, has the Antarctic team in awe and bewilderment at what they have found. Secrets are kept from the outside world, and decisions are made after careful contemplation on the best way to thaw these icy specters from the past without decomposition. The Victorian lovers are placed in a saltwater bath for what should be a slow and carefully timed melting process. But….while Michael and the team patiently wait, and do some lab tests on the wine bottle contents, Sinclair and Eleanor Copley not only defrost, but come…alive! Robert Masello has penned a phenomenal suspense horror novel that I doubt any reader could contemplate putting down for one minute. His talent to slowly build the tension as he alternates the story from the Victorian past with Sinclair as a soldier in the 17th Lancers Division during the Crimean War, and Eleanor as a nurse working side by side with Florence Nightingale mending wounded soldiers, to the shocking and violent events in the present as the researchers at the South Pole are under attack and fight one nightmarish battle after another. As the famous Charge of the Light Brigade serves up a battlefield of dead and bloodied soldiers, a sinister entity feeds on the flesh and turn Eleanor and Sinclair into thirsty immortals damned for all eternity. Two entwining stories chained together for a future revelation offer up a superb blend of history, romance, science, and horror. The way this story unravels, is not what you may think, it does not follow the usual rule of thumb, and what I really loved was that the author took an age old story we’ve all read before and spun a really cool new twist that ended in a most unique way. Robert Masello gives us a well written complex plot, wonderful endearing characters fully developed, and a suspenseful horror novel blended with a surprising integration of love and tenderness amidst the horrors of war and amongst the philosophies of what it means to be human. Where the dividing line between man and monster lies, is brilliantly found between the pages of Blood and Ice. I LOVED this book !!!!
    • 1/5
      The worst book I read in 2009, hands down. I expected to like it, what with the combination of so many interests - vampires, journalism, science, the Crimean War, etc. The writing as prose wasn't too bad, but the plot-anvils and atrocious characterizations made me wish I could burn it to save other library patrons. I could have accepted the main character being guilt-ridden enough to act totally obsessed, but to have ALL the scientists encountered conspiring in a massive coverup (those that weren't dead yet, anyway), including the brilliant one who just wanted to go back to his fissssshhhh, was just unbelievable. I could go on and on, but I don't want to spoil it any more for those less critical than I.
    • 2/5
      I was disappointed with this lengthy work. The ending was not helpful at all. There was still far too much left unresolved. And most of the emphasis on the "other" woman in his life, and her sister, was just sort of dropped. There was a lot of icy detail which was fairly convincing but there did seem to be a lot of effort spent on going back and forth "between" time periods and on traversing expanses of ice.
    • 4/5
      Michael Wilde is a journalist for Eco-Travel magazine. His boss offers him the chance to travel to the ends of the earth or pretty much close to it. He tells Michael that he has set it up where one reporter is being allowed to go to Point Adelie in Antarctica, near the South Pole. This assignment would be to take pictures of the Adelie penguins and write a report on them. Michael knows he can't pass up an opportunity like this, so he agrees to go. While out on a diving expedition, Michael unearths something so horrific that it leaves him speechless. There located in the Antarctic Ocean is a man and a woman. They are frozen in a block of ice but that isn't the usual thing. It just so happens that the couple has been bound together by chains. It is like the ice has preserved them for all ages. Michael knows that he has discovered a gold mine. His only goal now is to figure out what happened, so many centuries ago. The answer to this mystery will blow you away as Michael possess what could be one of the best kept secrets of all times. Let me first start off by saying Wow! I did not expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. At almost five hundred pages this is a good thing. Though as much as I liked Blood and Ice, there was only one little problem that I had and that was when the storyline would switch from the past to the present. I had a little trouble following at first and would have to check to see if I was going back in time before I would start reading. Other then this issue which I would call minor, I had a pleasure reading this book. Towards the middle of the story, it started to get dark. I don't want to give away the ending but let me tell you that it is good. I plan to check out Mr. Masello's other work.