Kiss of Frost

Kiss of Frost (2011) Jennifer Estep

Gwen is now mostly settled into the Mythos Academy. She still feels like a fish out of water, but she has friends and is starting to enjoy at least some of her classes. But because she spent her childhood as a relatively normal kid, she now get private weapons tutoring sessions with Logan Quinn, her not-so-secret crush, and two of his Spartan Friends.

I’m really enjoying this series, despite the relatively high amounts of angst and teenage brooding. Partially because Gwen really does have good reasons for her angst and brooding, and partially because she’s stupid and angsty in ways that pretty much any teenager would be. And partially because she remains true to herself, despite feeling like a complete outside.

The other thing I’m liking is that the characters are complex. Morgan from the last book is still at Mythos, but because of the events in the previous book, she’s gone from being the head Mean Girl to an outsider of a different sort. And Daphne, although a loyal friend to Gwen, still does some rather borderline things. But, they’re things that a teenager WOULD do, so…

You could pick up this book without having read the rest of the series–there is a fair amount of backstory at the start.

There is drinking and smooching and mention of sex and hookups, but nothing explicit and nothing a high school kid wouldn’t know about. And to be honest, considering that these are kids that may well die in their twenties, that party-hard mentality makes sense.
Rating: 7/10

Published by Kensington Books

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