The Fever series is one of my top 5 favorite series' of all time. I love the grittiness of the world, I love Dublin, Mac is my hero and Barrons...(shudder), you know. But Dani annoyed me. Her POV scenes in the latter Fever books grated. Her way of speaking got royally under my skin. When I found out KMM was writing Iced, I can't say I was thrilled. Sometimes, you can do too much of a great thing. I was happy with the ending of Shadowfever. I believe in finite when it comes to books (and TV shows, and movie franchises). I did NOT want my favorite series to go on forever until it got stretched too thin and stopped meaning something to me. 
 But Iced was fan-fecking-tastic. 
 Dani grew on me almost immediately. Mac, she is not. But strong and smart and ALIVE, she is. I don't like 14 year old's in general. Kids...ugh. But Dani isn't really a 14 year old. 14 year old's don't have the weight of the world on their shoulders. 14 year old's don't have to make the hard decisions, sacrifice everything, make a wrong decision and have the consequences really MEAN something. 
 Yes, it's creepy that so may grown men are interested in her. Yes, it's mildly ridiculous that every guy Dani meets thinks she's amazing; Ryodan, Christian, Dancer. But first off, she IS amazing. Secondly, she's 14. Not 8. She'd be a freshman in high school. Not in elementary school. The only one that really went to the creepy place was Christian, but wasn't that the point? He's becoming an Unseelie Prince. He's slowly losing the Highlander and becoming the thing he has hated his whole life. He's losing his humanity. Doesn't it completely follow that his senses of right and wrong and okay and completely icky have been skewed a bit? His POV was eerie and I missed them when they started to taper off in the end. Will he try to stay good? He can't be brought back from what's happening to him, can he? His sacrifice was perfect. Perfect. I love the duality, the ambiguity of his new nature. Can't wait for more. 
 And I didn't really like Ryodan. He isn't Barrons. But I wasn't overly crazy about Barrons until he "saved" Mac from Maluce when she didn't even need his help and they fought. That happened a few books in. Ryodan could very well grow on me. What I don't get is, why did he even need Dani's help? First, it's not in his nature to admit that he can't do something. Cuz he CAN do...EVERYTHING! Even though Dani helped, why did he recruit her? Just cuz he wants to keep her around until she's old enough to sleep with? At least Barrons needed Mac to detect the OOPs. That made sense. Ryodan needing Dani doesn't. Maybe he knows something we don't yet (which is exactly what I suspect). 
 Who I DID like was Dancer. Brilliant to have an age-appropriate, non-superhero type who can hold his own and save the day in a human way. With all these larger than life, superpowered, immortal people who can hardly be harmed, bringing in a fragile human is perfection. 
 The ending was pretty dumb though. Anyone who has read Shadowfever (and really, who would read Iced if they haven't?) knows Mac isn't going to hurt Dani. Why end that way? Why draw out their encounter all book long? In Burned, they better pick up right there and get the damn conversation over with. 
 And them fast-forward until Dani is...oh...18. At least. 
 I want Dani older. I want to see Dublin rebuilt. I want to see the walls back up and the Fae out of our world and hope restored. 
 I know I've spent most of this review talking about characters I didn't like. This doesn't mean I don't LOVE the book! The best books elicit an emotional response, make you want to read on, wish it didn't end, hope for the characters and speculate what's coming up next. I may not like everyone in Iced, but the story is rich, the characters beautifully flawed, and the wait for Burned will be torturous. That's what good books are all about.