Our Lady of the Ice (Hardcover)

from krau0098

I have read everything by Clarke (and with the exception of The Wizard's Promise) really enjoyed all of her books. This book was masterfully written and incredibly intriguing but also moved fairly slow. It's a book that needs to be read slowly and carefully, but the description throughout and the...

from Cherylk

I have not read anything by this author before. Instantly I was transported to Hope City. I got a clear picture of what the city looked like and could feel the icy, cold of the Artic. I think I would go out of my mind living in a place like Hope City during the long winter months. One I don't lik...

from stefferoo

Last year, I became a big fan of Cassandra Rose Clarke after reading her adult novel debut The Mad Scientist's Daughter, an emotional tale about love, loss and androids that shattered my heart to pieces and left me pining for more. So ever since I learned about her new book Our Lady of the Ice, I...

from reading_fox

Interesting concept but doesn't quite do enough with it to fully entertain. Sort of steampunk SF, but set in the future I think? which doesn't make a lot of sense. It's the worldbuilding all around which most lets down this blend of gangster noir and SF future tech. The setting is a city on antar...

from Jaylia3

Dark, gritty and inventive, I was drawn to this book by it's premise--robots and humans living together uneasily under Antarctic domes. Throw in a ruined amusement park, exploitation by "mainlanders" back in South America, and the fact that the robots are evolving and there was no way I could res...