Black Ice just gave me the chills.

I haven’t read many suspense/thriller books before. I just haven’t really come across one or gone out of my way to read one. I know of quite a few YA suspense books but I just haven’t really been motivated enough to pick one up.

Really though, I read this in less than a day. An afternoon even. I wasn’t rushing through it or anything, it’s just one of those books where you can sit yourself down and watch the story unfurl in front of your eyes.

I genuinely had no idea which of the three guys did it. I suspected each them at one point. Just when I was like ‘Aha! I knew it was you!’ one of the other two guys would do something suspicious or something guilty about their past would be revealed. Although, I did have more trust in Mason more than the other two.

The main thing that attracted me to Black Ice would have been the author. Unlike a few other book bloggers I know, I am a fan of Becca Fitzpatrick’s ‘Hush, Hush’ series and I was pretty sure I would like this one. My expectations weren’t huge, but they were at around a four star review. I think this is actually a little better than I expected, even if this is actually a four star review. So I’d say it surpassed my expectations.

I’m just going to say that I wasn’t a huge fan of the relationship between the main character and any of the guys. Whether it was the one between her and her ex-boyfriend or the one between her and Mason. I just wasn’t sold.

Another problem I had was that I struggled with the idea that the main character and her best friend just went into a house with two strange older boys that hadn’t (really) previously met. I mean, haven’t you heard of ‘stranger danger’ and all that? I understand their options were limited, but not completely to the choice they made.

Another thing I did like, however it’s a little strange, was the constant feeling that something was wrong. I thought it really built to the atmosphere of the book.

And that ending! Perfetto.

I would definitely recommend Black Ice to fans and non-fans of Hush, Hush. It’s very different and in that sense incomparable. The story is good and wouldn’t even make a bad read on Halloween.

4/5 comets
Meteor shower. A great show.