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Black Ice
Author:
Fitzpatrick, Becca
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 14-19
Language: English
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PZ7.F577
Grade: 9-12
Print Run: 50000
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ISBN-13: 9781442474260
LCCN: 2014004913
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Pub Date: 10/07/2014
Availability: Available
List: $19.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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392 pages ; 22 cm
H 8.25",
W 5.5",
D 1.2",
1.05 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Teen
Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Senior High Core Collection, 20th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 21st ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Young Adult Fiction Core Collection, 4th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Action/Adventure
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BISAC Subjects: |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Thrillers & Suspense / General
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LC Subjects:
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Hostages, Fiction
Hostages, Juvenile fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience
Love stories
Love, Fiction
Survival, Fiction
Survival, Juvenile fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Hostages, Fiction
Love stories
Survival skills, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5.1
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Points: 15.0
Lexile Level:
720
Reading Counts Level:
5.4
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Points: 22.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles | 09/01/2014 |
| A backpacking trip to the Teton Range turns deadly when a sudden blizzard strands Brit Pheiffer in a remote cabin with a pair of handsome fugitives who promptly take her hostage and force her to guide them off the mountain. When Brit learns of a shocking murder, she must find a way to unravel the truth and hope her ex-boyfriend finds her…before it's too late. 400pp. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 10/01/2014 |
| Grades 9-12. Fitzpatrick's romantic survival thriller starts with a graphic murder in Wyoming and then picks up a year later when teenager Britt and her friend Korbie head into the Tetons for spring break. A sudden blizzard turns their backpacking trip into a life-or-death trial when they take shelter in a cabin with two strangers--who pull guns on the girls. Not content with merely stealing their gear, the men also need a guide, and to save pampered Korbie, Britt pretends to be an expert mountaineer. However, Britt is more capable than she realizes, using an annotated map to navigate in secret and stirring up tension between the men. Britt gains dimension as she wavers between hoping that her ex will rescue her and having the resourcefulness to rescue herself. While the romance between Britt and one of her captors is soapy, it dovetails nicely with the murder mystery. With an action-packed conclusion, capped off with a fairy-tale ending, this finds a good intersection between romance and suspense. Hutley, Krista. 400. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 12/01/2014 |
| Ad. Gr. 8-10. While the rest of their friends are heading to Hawaii for some spring break fun, high school senior Britt and her best friend, Korbie, plan on backpacking a forty-mile trek through Wyoming's Teton Range. Britt's thrown when she learns that Calvin-Korbie's older brother and Britt's ex-plans on meeting them, and she's wary about the recent rumors of a spate of murders in the mountains; she's determined, however, to put the intense hiking training she's be doing for a year now to the test. And tested she is, when a freak blizzard blows in, forcing the girls to find shelter with two strange men along the route. Shaun and Mason are on the run and Britt suspects she knows what they're running from when she discovers a dead body in the small cabin they occupy. The two men force Britt at gunpoint to lead them off the mountain, but Britt's certain she can buy some time until Calvin finds them. Fitzpatrick utilizes the treacherous terrain and weather to chilling effect, with the snow-covered mountains seemingly as villainous as the murderer that stalks them. The actual mystery itself, however, is deeply flawed: the killer is both obvious and cliched, while the red herrings thrown into the mix aren't nearly as convincing as they should be. The developing romance between Mason and Britt is steamy, though, and Britt does at least ponder the implications of falling in love with her captor. Of course, by the end, any hint that Mason (real name Jude) is actually a bad guy is extinguished, the villain is rightly institutionalized, and Britt and Jude have their chance at a happy life together with no snow in sight. KQG. 392p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2014. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2015 |
| 4. When a sudden snowstorm interrupts their drive to the Grand Tetons, Britt and her best friend seek shelter in a cabin where two fugitives have holed up. The men--possibly serial killers--force Britt to be their mountain guide. It's Lifetime-movie-plot fare (Britt pines for her ex and falls for one of her captors, while trudging through snow), but this thriller is compulsively readable. tda. 392pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 09/01/2014 |
| This wannabe romance remains a thriller at heart.Britt wants to go hiking in the Tetons as she tries to recover from the end of her romance with Calvin Versteeg. She and Calvin's sister, her best friend, Korbie, set out for the Versteegs' palatial cabin but break down in the middle of an unexpected blizzard. They trudge through the snow and find a cabin occupied by Mason and Shaun, who reluctantly take them in. Soon, however, the girls learn that the young men are on the run from the police and intend either to kill them or take them hostage. Britt talks them into leaving Korbie behind while she accompanies them as their guide in a hike toward the highway, where Mason and Shaun plan to steal a car and escape. While in the cabin, however, Britt discovered a long-dead body that she believes is a missing girl. Events spiral out of control when Calvin shows up. It's clear that someone is a murderer, perhaps even a serial killer, but which one? Fitzpatrick keeps the focus more on suspense than on the underlying romance, pitching the book to two complementary audiences. Although some of Britt's reasoning comes across as rather tortured, the story still works as a good thriller. Except for Korbie, effectively drawn as a self-centered, spoiled brat, the characterizations are fairly shallow. Plenty of thrills and some kissing too. (Thriller. 14-18). 400pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 08/11/2014 |
| Ages 14-up. High school senior Britt Pheiffer plans to spend spring break backpacking in the Grand Tetons before a blizzard strands her, and two strangers take her hostage. Forced to feign wilderness expertise, she promises to guide them to the highway so they'll spare her life. An abrupt and disturbingly graphic opener sets the tone for Fitzpatrick's (the Hush, Hush Series) staccato storytelling and barrage of deadly complications. Britt is smart and resourceful, untangling mixed signals from mysterious captor Mason (who helps her lie to his partner-in-crime, Shaun, to save her friend Korbie), plotting her escape, and navigating the brutal elements--blinding snowfalls, frigid temperatures, and grizzly bears. As Britt narrates the tale, she flits between naive damsel in distress, desperately hoping her outdoorsy ex, Calvin, will come to her rescue and quick-witted young woman who shows resiliency after making the sickening discovery that her captors have killed before. In the vein of Marcus Sedgwick's Revolver, Fitzpatrick's novel is rife with psychological twists exploring themes of revenge, misogyny, and familial duty. Agent: Catherine Drayton, Inkwell Management. (Oct.). 400p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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| School Library Journal | 08/01/2014 |
| Gr 9 Up. After a horrifying prologue depicting a young girl's kidnapping and murder near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this thriller commences one year later, when 17-year-old Britt and her best friend Korbie head out for a hiking trip in the Tetons. When Britt finds out that Korbie's older brother, her ex, will be at their family cabin too, she's torn between trying to win him back and trying to get over him. A freak storm makes the friends lose their way. When the teens knock on the door of a cabin looking for assistance, they unwittingly become part of a plan that its handsome occupants are in the midst of concocting. Britt finds evidence that the two men may have been involved in the disappearance of several women. Convincing them to leave Korbie behind and to take her with them as a guide, the heroine tries keep them all alive during the storm, while also plotting her escape and piecing together the clues to what happened to the missing women. After the heart-poundingly realistic prologue, the rest of the book is a bit frothy, with typical romance plot points. However, the mystery builds with each chapter and the writing is good enough to sustain a sense of foreboding with each page. Despite the unrealistic and saccharine story of the protagonist falling in love with one of her captors, this is a book with inarguable appeal. Britt has realistically complex feelings towards her parents, best friend, and ex-boyfriend, and many teens will enjoy the mix of horror, mystery, and chick lit. Sunnie Lovelace, Wallingford Public Library, CT. 400p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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| ~VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates Magazine - Retired Journal) | 10/01/2014 |
| 3Q 4P J S. Fitzpatrick, author of the Hush, Hush series, takes a turn from the paranormal to this somewhat more realistic crime thriller. As in the author's previous novels, romance continues to drive the action, with high school senior Britt lurching from the arms of one handsome fellow to another, as the death toll mounts, and she tries to figure out which eligible bachelor is the local serial killer. At one point, she and one of her beaux are menaced, in short order, by a wolverine, a pack of wolves, and finally a grizzly bear, with each of these rare predators appearing at just at the right moment to launch the excitable narrator into the arms of her hunky companion (who is either the serial killer or her hero and true love). This suspense thriller set in Grand Teton National Park during a spring blizzard is the high-hormone adolescent equivalent of any of Nevada Barr's adult-market novels concerning a female park ranger who solves murders in spectacular natural settings. Here, Fitzpatrick serves up lurid violence featuring torture and grisly murders, all narrated by a properly abstinent heroine who makes out feverishly with a couple of her suitors, and even spends the night with lusty young men without--readers are carefully reassured after each hot scene--ever losing her virginity. Girls who enjoy lengthy romantic suspense novels will be the prime audience for this one.--Walter Hogan. 400p. VOICE OF YOUTH ADVOCATES, c2014. |
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