WARNING: Spoiler are present in the review. 
 I'll start off by saying I've never read anything by Becca Fitzpatrick. Her Hush, Hush series has never interested me. So I was happy when I saw that she had a book coming out that actually sounded kind of cool. I read several mixed reviews of the story before starting, but for the most part I went into it with an open mind. I've read books before that contain this kind of captive/kidnapper romance, and in my opinion it's a very difficult thing to write about and almost never ends up being sexy or romantic. But I was more than willing to give Black Ice a chance, and honestly I can't say I'm overjoyed I did. I'm going to be breaking this up into "like/dislike parts", but before I do I just want to say that the cover would look a lot better without the model. The snow and the dark plus the tagline would have been perfectly ominous enough on its own. 
 Things I Liked: 
 -	Honestly one of the only good things I have to say about this book is that it kept my attention. The pacing is fine, the action scenes were fun. I had no problem at all finishing it, which is why I can't bring myself to give it one star instead of two. 
 -	I give the preface credit for being pretty intriguing right off the bat. 
 -	I didn't guess Mason's true intentions for being in the mountains with Sean in the first place, so being surprised was a plus. 
 Things I Disliked: 
 -	I really could not stand the characters. Britt was an extremely vain and annoying protagonist. She is the perfect stereotype of a whiny, selfish spoiled teenage girl. She literally begs money off her father and feels like everyone else should do things for her in general because she's pretty. Men are good as boyfriends and money-makers. Women are to be viewed as competition, and we must never forget it. She spends nearly all her time thinking about her ex-boyfriend in the beginning when she's not being too lazy to get off her butt and make her own money for gas. 
 -	Of course, her best friend is not a good influence on her either. I have come to realize that I really don't like reading about these toxic, fake friendships between characters, at least in contemporary novels. Especially if it's between high school girls. Korbie somehow manages to be even more self-absorbed than Britt by actually keeping a list of who is more attractive right down to the fingernails. How this girl gets through life without accidentally dying six times a day is a mystery to me. 
 -	And yes, I realize that the bad qualities of Britt and Korbie are seen in the beginning of the novel, so they might improve as people over the course of the story right? Not so much. Character development is nowhere to be seen. 
 -	That scene when Korbie and Britt entered Sean and Mason's cabin during the snowstorm was ridiculous. Who goes into a house with men they don't know and immediately begins flirting/staking claims without even pausing to think about the fact that these dudes are complete strangers who could be total nutcases? I almost felt like the two of them got what they deserved for not being cautious. 
 -	I think Britt assumed way too much about Mason. He easily could have been just as nuts as Sean. 
 -	Britt is extremely naive. In one scene in the woods when it's just her and Mason, he offers her a drink of something and she takes it. It's alcohol and she doesn't even realize it. 
 -	It was fairly obvious that Calvin was the real killer after he shot Sean. No one normal is going to be that calm directly after killing another human being for the first time, especially when they weren't actually forced to. And up until that point, Sean had been the main villain of the story (Mason was one for about thirty seconds), and after that who was going to take his place in this book that still had like a hundred pages to go until it was over? Hmm. I wonder. Not. 
 -	Black Ice would have had a lot more substance to it in my opinion if the ending had been sad/darker. It's wrapped up with a neat little bow, Britt and Jude cuddling on the beach. I understand that the author probably wanted a happy ending, but it just felt so completely unrealistic in this kind of situation. Someone should have died, or they shouldn't have gotten back together. Kind of cruel to say, I know, but honestly these characters did not make enough of an impression on me for to want their story to end happily. 
 2 stars