Agirlcandream's Reviews > A Whisper of Solace

Thawing the Ice Queen is one of my favourite tropes. We readers sit back and watch the (often) younger love interest chip away at the Queen’s frosty exterior revealing the heat and passion trapped within. We revel in the love interests' success and enjoy seeing the softer side of her imperial conquest. This is not that kind of book.

A Whisper of Solace is written from the Ice Queen’s point of view. Neve is one brilliant and formidable woman. She is also filled with fear and self loathing. She knows she should not risk her reputation but her attraction to Audrey is too powerful, her need to touch and be touched, to feel something is too hard to resist. Resist she must or risk losing everything and everyone she holds dear.

This is an amazing and at times uncomfortable read. This introspective look at what drives an ice queen to act and react the way she does freaked me out a little. Filled with longing one moment, rigidly refusing to acknowledge that longing the next. Lashing out at anyone who dares to question her decisions, using a therapist to unravel the fear that drives her to make those choices. It’s a rollercoaster ride set in the unforgiving movie industry world. I watched the players make their moves much like the chess pieces used by Neve’s therapist. This book pulled me in and I hung on hoping Audrey and Neve would somehow find their HEA. What a ride. Quite the brilliant book.

A copy of this book was provided by the author for review.