A review by susana82
Fogo e gelo by Julie Garwood

adventurous funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

The writing is very amateurish and filled with clichés. Almost like a corny Wallmark film. The muscled FBI agent that doesn't have serious relationships, the smoking hot blondie, and they sort of dislike each other at first, all that blah blah, blah. Nothing groundbreaking here.
With that being said, despite the annoying clichés, it was a fun, easy read that did me good in a time when work was particularly heavy and stressfull. If I had been reading Doctor Zhivago instead, it would have been so much more difficult!
The story doesn't have much of a world building, is more action and dialogue centered.
Sophie becomes suspicious about the circumstances in which a guy that she had interviewed for work showed up dead by a bear in Alaska, of all places! That made her investigate further on her own, and then with the help of the FBI, where the agent MCallister travels with her to the great cold north.
At the same time we follow some diary entries from a scientist and although at first we do not know how that correlates with the dead guy, bit by bit everything ties up together.
Lots of funny bits of dialogue, but lots of clichés as well. And the way the FBI agents work here, doesn't sound very real, but it would work for a Hallmark film, I guess. The ending could have been a bit more worked. Seemed poorly completed.