"The world had ended long before the snows came, his father liked to say. It had ended after the Great Wars, ended after the Black Floods, the Big Freeze only the latest catastrophe. The world was always ending. The point was to survive whatever came next." 
 Frozen is basically about a desolate world that is covered in ice, where some humans have evolved into x-men-like mutants, minus Xavier's school for the gifted. Instead, these magical beings are being hunted down and exploited. So what does Nat Kestal, a gifted individual, do? She runs away and hires a mercenary to help her look for the mythical "Blue," a safe haven from the permanent winters and the corrupt government. 
 Frozen was kind of interesting, but I felt like there were too many ideas (and flaws) jammed into this book. 
 I imagine the brainstorming session for this book between Melissa de la Cruz and her husband Michael Johnston went down like this: 
 Johnston: Let's write a book about Earth, hundreds of years from now. It'll take place in a post-climate change society. There'll be toxic oceans, a new ice age, wastelands literally covered in mountains of waste, and trashbergs instead of icebergs. It'll also be a place where people won't have access to clean water or real food, where all the animals are extinct, the government is corrupt, and the average life expectancy is 20 because everyone will eventually die of cancer! 
 De la Cruz: Sounds good! You know what'll make this futuristic world even cooler? If we tossed in some witches, wizards, hobbits, elves, zombies, pirates, and dragons! Because why the hell not? But we'll call them enchanters, warlocks, smallmen, sylphs, thrillers, slavers, and drakons instead, just to be original. 
 Don't get me wrong, the whole The Day After Tomorrow vibe was pretty cool (pun intended) 
 The Walking Dead vibe was totally random 
 The sudden LOTR vibe with Sam, Frodo and Galadriel was pretty weird 
 The whole Pirates of the Caribbean thing between Wes and Nat could've been much better. 
 Finally, there's the whole How to Train Your Dragon twist which was definitely unexpected... and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. 
 Overall, Frozen was all over the place. Most of the storyline didn't make much sense and the ending was straight-up absurd.