The Ice Queen, (Paperback)

from Liciasings

Alice Hoffman is a captivating author. This is a compassionate, enchanting story. Gentle, dark, sad; Touched with redemption, love, hope; full of fairy tales and tragedy, lightning strikes, struggles, healing. I like the way you think the character's thoughts and feel what she feels as she proces...

from TheCrowdedLeaf

The Ice Queen is more than a story, it's almost an internal extensive self-dialogue. The narrator (unnamed and it took me the whole novel to realize that) at a young age wishes her mother dead and her wish comes true. Because of this she wanders through the rest of her life half asleep, always co...

from pandr65

First and foremost, the book has the rich quality of writing that all of Alice Hoffman's books have. For that reason, I was drawn to the characters and invested in this journey. The characters in this story are more uncomfortable for me—darker isn't quite the right word and it's as close as I can...

from Liciasings

Alice Hoffman is a captivating author. This is a compassionate, enchanting story. Gentle, dark, sad; Touched with redemption, love, hope; full of fairy tales and tragedy, lightning strikes, struggles, healing. I like the way you think the character's thoughts and feel what she feels as she proces...

from bookczuk

I feel really guilty, I normally love Alice Hoffman's writing, but this book just didn't engage me. Not that the writing wasn't good, or that the ideas were ambiguous or that the imagery was missing -- it just didn't capture me. When over halfway into the I didn't like or care about any of the ch...