Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Ice Room is a novel bristling with passion and repression in equal measure. In the mid s against a backdrop of impenetrable ice and snow, the novel evokes the menace in the loves of three people. On the slopes of the French ski The Ice Room is a novel bristling with passion and repression in equal measure.
On the slopes of the French ski resort Chapagny En Avoriaz their affair has devastating consequences. Interweaving their evocative personal tales, the reader is seduced into a haunting realm, inhabited by the intriguing emotional and sexual lives of two men and the woman they both desire. Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , pages.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Ice Room. May 11, Mikhael Brown rated it really liked it Shelves: stories. Really enjoyed the book. Nov 03, Jaykayrisque rated it really liked it. Marcus is a wealthy misogynist.
He wants women for sex, but otherwise neither likes nor trusts them. His best friend Peter though, falls for and marries Madeleine, a musically gifted woman whose appealingly vulnerable and child-like appearance belies her considerable prowess on the ski slopes.
Peter is besotted with her, but we come to see that she feels entrapped by men's desires for her and resents that her doting husband is blind to the flawed creature that she knows herself to be. She can on Marcus is a wealthy misogynist. She can only be at ease with Alan, an avuncular ex-policeman, who takes her under his wing and cares about her as she is.
Marcus is also an expert skier, and away from Peter, he and Madeleine vie with each other on the ski slopes. Marcus becomes infatuated with her, and decides he has to have her. She responds to his yearning, and has sex with him behind her new husband's back; then, when he becomes demanding and dependent, rejects him with contempt. From that point things turn very weird and nasty!
These are a good set of characters to work with, and the narrative, suitably intense where it counts, descends at a steady pace into creepy and disturbing realms. Perhaps here and there are some inconsistencies of style, yet descriptions are often very inventive and atmospheric, and there are a lot of strong ideas effectively executed.
There's a scene where waif-like Madeleine adulterously offers herself naked - beneath a 70, euro white fur coat All in all, I'm sure the author can deservedly count her first novel a success! Overall it was quite a good story; the kindle version's formatting was a struggle at times with passages A story of love, loss, infidelity and consequences; one of the quicker books I have read of late as flowed well and easy to read.
Michele rated it liked it Dec 23, Rick Koobs rated it really liked it Nov 25, Marcus becomes infatuated with her, and decides he has to have her. She responds to his yearning, and has sex with him behind her new husband's back; then, when he becomes demanding and dependent, rejects him with contempt. From that point things turn very weird and nasty!
These are a good set of characters to work with, and the narrative, suitably intense where it counts, descends at a steady pace into creepy and disturbing realms. Perhaps here and there are some inconsistencies of style, yet descriptions are often very inventive and atmospheric, and there are a lot of strong ideas effectively executed.
There's a scene where waif-like Madeleine adulterously offers herself naked - beneath a 70, euro white fur coat All in all, I'm sure the author can deservedly count her first novel a success! Read more. The Ice Room is a novel bristling with passion and repression in equal measure.
In the mid s against a backdrop of impenetrable ice and snow, the novel evokes the menace in the loves of three people. On the slopes of the French ski resort Chapagny En Avoriaz their affair has devastating consequences. Interweaving their evocative personal tales, the reader is seduced into a haunting realm, inhabited by the intriguing emotional and sexual lives of two men and the woman they both desire.
My first time reading a book by a singer I listen to. I know of her from her two bands and so when I found out she was putting out a book her second actually I thought I'd check into it.
I liked the book, quite good actually. Without giving too much away it's basically a story about one woman who gets drawn into another woman's small circle and then things turn dark until a sacrifice is made.
I'm not sure who was actually sacrificed; the one who was killed or the one who died later on to free the women. There's also a few things that were left unsaid, why the body was never found, what exactly happened to Ria. For the most part I enjoyed the book, my only problem with it were the instances of the narrator foreshadowing events with "I know now what happened I did enjoy the book and it was the first one in the past few months I did enjoy reading and wanted to find out what was going on with the characters.
All in all a pretty good book by Miss Ovenden.
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