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Review title: Not Edna's best Britt Montero book
Product review: The character development in Ice Maiden didn't seem to be quite up to par in this book by Edna Buchanan. I never really could get a good sense of who the Sunny character was supposed to be and I never felt any empathy for her or the ordeal she went through. Same with her parents, the boy's parents, or the boy himself. The frequent references to 9/11 tended to date the book as well. Usually the Britt Montero books are ageless, now I will be forever classifying them as pre or post 9/11 and expecting dates, seasons, etc. to "match" up to something. The extra-marital affair that was exposed at the end came from no-where-land and added nothing to the storyline. Same with the house explosion and the death of a recurring character. Sorry, Edna, it just wasn't there for me with Ice Maiden.
