Ice Princess (Behind the Ranges Book 2)

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Both Flower Jones and William King are headstrong and stubborn, and both are determined to reach the two very different goa Often, in a historical adventure romance novel, the love story will be a plot that develops alongside — or even as a result of — the adventure. Both Flower Jones and William King are headstrong and stubborn, and both are determined to reach the two very different goals they've set for themselves.

Their goals are mutually exclusive; there's no way both can accomplish what they've set out to do. So, for much of the novel, their relationship seems like the classic conflict between irresistible force and immovable object. It's the middle of the s, in Oregon Territory.

Ice Princess (Behind the Ranges, #2) by Judith B. Glad

William was a slave in Alabama who seized on a lucky chance to escape and, by sheer determination and strength, made his way west, where another lucky chance has given him a home. He knows the part luck played, but he also recognizes the value of determination. Flower is the daughter of an American trapper and his Native American wife, both now dead. Raised and educated in several different traditions, feeling herself a stranger in all of them, she like William had finally begun to feel at home and safe in a place called Cherry Vale — until, after suffering a brutal gang rape, she lost faith in everything and everyone, especially herself.

I won't spoil the story by telling you what the conflict between Flower and William is, only that it leads them through wild country and into dangerous and terrifying situations where they'll need all their skills and determination, together and separately, just to survive.

This is an exciting story.

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The characters are real, three-dimensional people you can't help caring about, and Judith B. Glad is a real and excellent writer. Read this one — you won't be sorry. Gigi Halfmann rated it really liked it Jun 22, Nicole rated it really liked it May 23, Rosemary Plonka rated it it was amazing Dec 08, Heather marked it as to-read May 31, BookDB marked it as to-read Oct 09, Nancy marked it as to-read May 10, Kim marked it as to-read Jul 13, Jane Janelba added it Nov 18, Jenny Lynn marked it as to-read Nov 07, Phaedra added it Jun 05, Tippit marked it as to-read Aug 29, The second part of story takes place in the far north of Westeros, where an 8,year-old wall of ice, simply called " the Wall ", defends the Seven Kingdoms from supernatural creatures known as the Others.

The Wall's sentinels, the Sworn Brotherhood of the Night's Watch , also protect the realm from the incursions of the " wildlings " or "Free Folk", who are several human tribes living on the north side of the Wall. He eventually becomes Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. On the continent of Essos, east of Westeros across the Narrow Sea , Daenerys is married off by her elder brother Viserys Targaryen to a powerful warlord, but slowly becomes an independent and intelligent ruler in her own right. Her rise to power is aided by the historic birth of three dragons , hatched from eggs given to her as wedding gifts.

The three dragons soon become not only a symbol of her bloodline and her legitimate claim to the throne, but also devastating weapons of war, which help her in conquest of the Slaver's bay. Books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series are first published in hardcover and are later re-released as paperback editions.

In the UK, Harper Voyager publishes special slipcased editions. Martin was already a successful fantasy and sci-fi author and TV writer before writing his A Song of Ice and Fire book series. He grew frustrated that his pilots and screenplays were not getting made [25] and that TV-related production limitations like budgets and episode lengths were forcing him to cut characters and trim battle scenes.

Tolkien in his childhood, he wanted to write an epic fantasy, though he did not have any specific ideas. When Martin was between Hollywood projects in the summer of , he started writing a new science fiction novel called Avalon. After three chapters, he had a vivid idea of a boy seeing a man's beheading and finding direwolves in the snow, which would eventually become the first non-prologue chapter of A Game of Thrones.

Martin in [30]. In , Martin gave his agent, Kirby McCauley , the first pages and a two-page story projection as part of a planned trilogy with the novels A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter intended to follow. When Martin had still not reached the novel's end at manuscript pages, he felt that the series needed to be four and eventually six books long, [26] [31] which he imagined as two linked trilogies of one long story.

Martin saw the struggle of the cold Others and the fiery dragons as one possible meaning for "Ice and Fire", whereas the word "song" had previously appeared in Martin's book titles A Song for Lya and Songs the Dead Men Sing , stemming from his obsessions with songs. The revised finished manuscript for A Game of Thrones was pages long without the appendices , [35] with the publication following in August The pages removed from the A Game of Thrones manuscript served as the opening of the second book, entitled A Clash of Kings.

Martin was several months late turning in the third book, A Storm of Swords. Bantam Books published A Storm of Swords in a single volume in the United States in November , [15] whereas some other-language editions were divided into two, three, or even four volumes. Since the events on the Iron Islands were to have an impact in the book and could not be told with existing POV characters, Martin eventually introduced three new viewpoints. In , Martin was still optimistic that the fourth installment might be released in the last quarter of On one hand, Martin was unsatisfied with covering the events during the gap solely through flashbacks and internal retrospection.

On the other hand, it was implausible to have nothing happen for five years. Printing the book in "microtype on onion skin paper and giving each reader a magnifying glass" was also not an option for him. With the characters spread out across the world, [21] a friend suggested that Martin divide the story geographically into two volumes, of which A Feast for Crows would be the first.

With around pages in manuscript length, [1] A Dance with Dragons was eventually published in July after six years of writing, [26] longer in page count and writing time than any of the preceding four novels. Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will be big books of manuscript pages each. The Winds of Winter will resolve the cliffhangers from A Dance with Dragons early on and "will open with the two big battles that [the fifth book] was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle [ And then take it from there.

In December , Martin posted a chapter from The Winds of Winter from the viewpoint of Theon Greyjoy ; [60] several other chapters have been made public since. In there were indications that the book would be published before the sixth season of the HBO show [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] but in early January Martin confirmed that he had not met an end-of-year deadline that he had established with his publisher for release of the book before the sixth season.

Ice Princess

He also revealed there had been a previous deadline of October that he had considered achievable in May , and that in September he had still considered the end-of-year deadline achievable. He further confirmed that some of the plot of the book might be revealed in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones.

During the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico in early December , Martin offered the following hint as to the tone of this book:. There are a lot of dark chapters right now I've been telling you for 20 years that winter was coming. Winter is the time when things die, and cold and ice and darkness fill the world, so this is not going to be the happy feel-good that people may be hoping for.

Some of the characters [are] in very dark places. Martin is firm about ending the series with the seventh novel "until I decide not to be firm".

On the other hand, Martin noted the challenge to avoid a situation like the finale of the TV series Lost , which left some fans disappointed by deviating too far from their own theories and desires. This included the end stories for all the core characters. Deviations from the books' storylines are also being considered, but a two-year show hiatus to wait for new books is not an option for them as the child actors continue to grow and the show's popularity would wane.

Regarding A Song of Ice and Fire as his magnum opus , Martin is certain never to write anything on this scale again and would only return to this fictional universe in the context of stand-alone novels. However, he will see if his audience follows him after publishing his next project. Martin believes the most profound influences to be the ones experienced in childhood. Lovecraft , Robert E. Howard , Robert A. Heinlein , Eric Frank Russell , Andre Norton , [29] Isaac Asimov , [33] Fritz Leiber , and Mervyn Peake [81] in his youth, Martin never categorized these authors' literature into science fiction, fantasy, or horror and will write from any genre as a result.

Martin experienced some harsh winters when living in Dubuque a few years in the 70s, and suspects these winters had an influence on his writing; "I think a lot of the stuff in A Game of Thrones, the snow and ice and freezing, comes from my memories of Dubuque". The medieval setting has been the traditional background for epic fantasy. However, where historical fiction leaves versed readers knowing the historical outcome, [81] original characters may increase suspense and empathy for the readers. Martin is widely credited with broadening the fantasy fiction genre for adult content, including incest, paedophilia, and adultery.

Setting out to write something on an epic scale, [87] Martin projected to write three books of manuscript pages in the very early stages of the series. Martin said he needed to be in his own office in Santa Fe, New Mexico to immerse himself in the fictional world and write.

Martin drew much inspiration from actual history for the series, [80] having several bookcases filled with medieval history for research [92] and visiting historic European landmarks. The story is written to follow principal landmarks with an ultimate destination, but leaves Martin room for improvisation. On occasion, improvised details significantly affected the planned story.

For instance, Martin has inconsistently referred to certain characters' eye colors, and has described a horse as being of one sex and then another. The books are divided into chapters, each one narrated in the third person limited through the eyes of a point of view character, [49] an approach Martin learned himself as a young journalism student. The short-lived one-time POV characters are mostly restricted to the prologue and epilogue.

Modeled on The Lord of the Rings , the story of A Song of Ice and Fire begins with a tight focus on a small group with everyone in Winterfell , except Daenerys and then splits into separate stories. The storylines are to converge again, but finding the turning point in this complex series has been difficult for Martin and has slowed down his writing. Depending on the interview, Martin is said to have reached the turning point in A Dance with Dragons , [21] or to not quite have reached it yet in the books.

The chapters are later rearranged to optimize character intercutting, chronology, and suspense. Influenced by his television and film scripting background, Martin tries to keep readers engrossed by ending each A Song of Ice and Fire chapter with a tense or revelational moment, a twist or a cliffhanger , similar to a TV act break. Each book shall represent a phase of the journey that ends in closure for most characters. A smaller portion of characters is left with clear-cut cliffhangers to make sure readers come back for the next installment, although A Dance with Dragons had more cliffhangers than Martin originally intended.

The unresolved larger narrative arc encourages speculation about future story events. Regarding the characters as the heart of the story, [] Martin planned the epic A Song of Ice and Fire to have a large cast of characters and many different settings from the beginning. However, their backstory remains subject to change until written down in the story.

Martin deliberately ignored the writing rule of never giving two characters names starting with the same letter. Henry V of England. The family names were designed in association with ethnic groups see backstory: All characters are designed to speak with their own internal voices to capture their views of the world. He returns to the intended story if it does not work out, but these detours sometimes prove more rewarding for him.

As the character most deeply involved in magic, Bran's story needs to be handled carefully within the supernatural aspects of the books. Bran is also the youngest viewpoint character, [37] and has to deal with the series' adult themes like grief, loneliness, and anger. Martin hoped the planned five-year break would ease the situation and age the children to almost adults in terms of the Seven Kingdoms, but he later dropped the five-year gap see section Bridging the timeline gap. Although modern fantasy may often embrace strangeness, A Song of Ice and Fire series is generally praised for what is perceived as a sort of medieval realism.

A common theme in the fantasy genre is the battle between good and evil , [84] which Martin rejects for not mirroring the real world. Although fantasy comes from an imaginative realm, Martin sees an honest necessity to reflect the real world where people die sometimes ugly deaths, even beloved people. According to Martin, the fantasy genre rarely focuses on sex and sexuality, [37] instead often treating sexuality in a juvenile way or neglecting it completely.

Martin provides a variety of female characters to explore the place of women in a patriarchal society. Science Fiction Weekly stated in that "few would dispute that Martin's most monumental achievement to date has been the groundbreaking A Song of Ice and Fire historical fantasy series", [37] for which reviews have been "orders of magnitude better" than for his previous works, as Martin described to The New Yorker. Martin earned his following the hard way, by word of mouth, by hooking his characters into the psyche of his readers to an extent that most writers of fantasy only dream of.

Publishers Weekly noted in that "Martin may not rival Tolkien or Robert Jordan , but he ranks with such accomplished medievalists of fantasy as Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson. Martin their Author of the Year The slim pickings here are tasty, but in no way satisfying. According to the Los Angeles Times , "Martin's brilliance in evoking atmosphere through description is an enduring hallmark of his fiction, the settings much more than just props on a painted stage", and the novels captivate readers with "complex storylines, fascinating characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing, and the willingness to kill off even his major characters".

Every town has an elaborately recalled series of triumphs and troubles. At the end, I felt shaken and exhausted. If you pay attention, you will be rewarded and questions will be answered. Jordison detailed his misgivings about A Game of Thrones in a review and summarized "It's daft. And yet, I couldn't stop reading Archaic absurdity aside, Martin's writing is excellent. His dialogue is snappy and frequently funny. His descriptive prose is immediate and atmospheric, especially when it comes to building a sense of deliciously dark foreboding [of the long impending winter].

That when things are, on the whole, pretty crappy [in the real world], it's a deep joy to dive headfirst into something so completely immersive, something from which there is no need to surface from hours at a time.

And if that immersion involves dragons, magic, wraiths from beyond death, shapeshifting wolves and banished princes, so be it. The reported overall sales figures of the A Song of Ice and Fire series vary. Martin's publishers initially expected A Game of Thrones to be a best-seller, [23] but the first installment did not even reach any lower positions in bestseller list.

The series gained Martin's old writings new attention, and Martin's American publisher Bantam Spectra was to reprint his out-of-print solo novels. The fourth installment, A Feast for Crows , was an immediate best-seller at its release, [23] hitting number one on "The New York Times" hardcover fiction bestseller list November 27, , which for a fantasy novel suggested that Martin's books were attracting mainstream readers. Backbone of the World.

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