Shadows and Ice {Book Review}

Title: Shadow and Ice

Series: Gods of War 

Author: Gena Showalter

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Book Description:

Gena Showalter, the New York Times bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld, introduces a scorching new paranormal romance series… Gods of War.

Knox of Iviland has spent his life competing in the All Wars, where vicious warriors with supernatural powers fight to the death to claim new realms. One winner takes everything—and all losers die. Enslaved as a child for his ability to control shadows, the most ruthless champion in history will stop at nothing to kill his king. But first he must win the battle for Earth. When a fearsome weapon imprisons every combatant in ice, centuries pass without progress…until she walks in.

Vale London craves a fun arctic getaway with her foster sister before settling down to open a bakery. Street-tough but vulnerable, she is unprepared to find ancient gods escaping a frozen cave—merciless beings who target her when she inadvertently enters their war.

Though Vale is now his enemy, Knox is consumed with lust and a fierce need to protect her. But only one combatant can prove victorious, and he will have to choose: live for freedom, or die for love.

My Review:

So I don't tend to do very many paranormal reviews on my blog anymore. I used to read a ton of paranormal books and than became very picky with them and just couldn't find any good ones. A few years ago I started asking around about good paranormal books. There was one particular name that kept coming up. And that name was Mrs. Showalter's. I decided to check out her books and became hooked. Now I'm kind of rambling so on with my review. 

This book is the beginning of a brand new series for Mrs. Showalter. As with all of her books, Mrs. Showalter is very descriptive with the first few chapters. If your not familiar with Mrs. Showalter's books it can almost come as an overload of information. But I promise if you keep reading it does get to the good stuff and more understandable. 

I found that I both enjoyed Knox and Vale's character's, though at times they drove me a bit crazy. 

Vale is a young woman who wants to get away with her foster sister one last time before opening her bakery. Only to find the place they vacation to is where God's are escaping. She was definitely tough enough with a bit a sass. 

I will say this I found Knox to be swoon-worthy right off the bat. Knox is a man who has been enslaved since he was a child for his abilities and is one of the fiercist champions in the war. 

I really don't want to give a lot away. I will say that Mrs. Showalter brings this new world alive in this series and I can't wait to read more from it. 

I'm giving this book 4 Stars out of 5!!!

Disclaimer: I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley for my honest review. The opinions in this post are 100% of Busy Bumble Bee Book Reviews and may differ from others.