Originally posted at The Winner's Book Thief. 
 "The most powerful magic of all is choice." 
 This was a terrifyingly sad sequel. After the amounts of badassery we had in Snow Like Ashes, Ice Like Fire book is rather slow and boring. Even Meira, the amazing kickbutt character we saw in Snow Like Ashes is boring. This book focuses more on the politics and such, and sadly, no more amazing woman power. Romance in this book is all over the place, and yes - the love triangle (that I had forgotten about whoops) was just a constantly bugging me. 
 That brings me to my next point - something else that was constantly bugging me - the WORLD BUILDING. There are like FIVE HUNDRED GAZILLION places and countries (actually maybe seven or so) AND MY LITTLE BRAIN WANTS TO REMEMBER THEM ALL but there are SO MANY and it's SO CONFUSING with the rhythms and seasons and asdf;alksdf;alkjsdfalksdjf;lkj!!!! <-- reason for why Beatrice was so frustrated. I want to know all the kings and queens and their histories and what their favorite colors were (actually, I'm writing this review so late that I can't even remember if they discussed that...probably not) but we never go in depth with anything or anyone. 
 Will I read the third book? Probably; it's gorgeous. HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL CHANGE!!!