Icebound by Julie Rowe

Emilie has lost her husband and suffered a miscarriage just over a year ago but is determined to continue working on her husband’s research. Only two places remain where continued studies can be done one of which is in space and the other is Antarctica. When she is accepted as the South Pole Station’s physician for a season, she hopes to finish one part of her quest to give her husband peace that his work continued on. What she doesn’t expect to find is new love and a new take on life.

I was completely taken in by the idea of a romance in Antarctica – although there will be no naked monkey sex outside since it gets pretty damn cold, but that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be some great romance (well, sex too) indoors. I did love the setting but in the future I might not read romances based in such extreme places. My scientist brain went into overload with some of what was happening and I couldn’t help evaluating what was going on and how likely it would be that things would really work the way they did in this novel.

I liked both Emilie and Tom. The romance had potential to me as I continued reading but I never quite got over my initial feeling of it. I felt it happened way too fast and that before either character was established they were having sex. I didn’t care about their relationship or the chemistry between them because I wasn’t given any time to get to know the characters before all the action was happening. I did grow to like them a lot more and enjoyed their interaction but that only happened close to the end of the book.

While I enjoyed Icebound and will read Julie Rowe again, I would have liked a bit more character development. 3 Stars.

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I received this ebook from Carina Press via netgalley.