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  <title><![CDATA[Blood and Ice]]></title>
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  <default_description>After months of seclusion following a tragic accident, contemporary journalist Michael Wilde could use a distraction &#8211; not to mention some work. And when his editor offers to send him to Antarctica on assignment, he jumps at the chance.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So it is that Michael finds himself at the end of the earth, living amid scientists and explorers at a research station at the South Pole. But when two frozen bodies are found at the bottom of the ocean, he enters a whole new realm of discovery. Astoundingly, these two young outcasts &#8211; one of Florence Nightingale&#8217;s nurses and a member of the infamous Light Brigade &#8211; carry a deadly curse in their blood: one that enables them to rise from their frozen tomb and live again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Combining the adventure of Clive Cussler with the bone-chilling suspense of Bram Stoker, BLOOD AND ICE stunningly takes the thriller to new territory.&lt;br&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">2</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Masello]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[megan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun twist on the paranormal genre. When two bodies are found in the antarctic ice, we find out how they got there, and fear for the folks that found them, especially journalist Michael Wilde who came to the South Pole to escape his own painful past. ]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Margery]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 01 12:56:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 16 10:48:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of the book was a &quot;4&quot;.  Well written, exciting, well paced.  However, the second half turned into a &quot;2&quot; when the vampire/weird science fiction theme emerged.  I found the ending very disappointing and I felt duped that such a good beginning could fall so short of i...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vampires in Antarctica? What an original premise! I'm in one of my periodic &quot;sick of vampires&quot; phases, but <em>Blood and Ice</em> sounded different enough to be worth my while. I was especially curious to see what Masello would do with the polar seasons; a vampire might have to lay low all through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59410142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55988635">
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  <date_added>Wed May 13 17:02:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 13 17:02:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Wilde is a journalist for Eco-Travel magazine. His boss offers him the chance to travel to the ends of the earth or pretty much close to it. He tells Michael that he has set it up where one reporter is being allowed to go to Point Adelie in Antarctica, near the South Pole. This assignment wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55988635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52557507">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 13 16:33:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 20 11:34:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a love-hate relationship with horror novels. It is mostly hate, as it is a debased genre, but I keep trying. I saw a fair bit of notice about Robert Masello's Blood and Ice, and I somehow got it into my head that it was a bit of supernatural horror along the lines of the Relic, a book mostly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52557507">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not nearly as exciting as I thought it would be.]]></body>
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    <review id="58326098">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like adventure, history, mystery, the Antartic, vampires]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pair of very strange tales set in 1856 and the present time, in the Antarctic. How  Mr. Masello weaves the stories together is brilliant. A modern day photo-journalist meets a frigid nurse from the Crimean war and her equally chilly British army lover. And the adventures begin.<br/><br/>Lots of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58326098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49729280">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like I'm being a little harsh by giving Masello two stars, because I appreciate the difficulty of the writing process and two stars? Really?  Well, I did lose interest by the middle of the book and I had to hang on to get to the end.  Why? After you realize what is going on, the balloon is de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49729280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49277904">
    <user id="1968285">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 16:19:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 31 18:07:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Wilde has the chance of a lifetime to go to Antarctica as a photojournalist.  He has many adventures and photo opportunities until he makes the biggest discovery of his career.  While scuba diving in the ocean beneath Antarctica, he sees a woman frozen in the ice.  A huge block of ice is cut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49277904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46342457">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 14 12:52:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 11:28:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won this book at a bookspotcentral giveaway.<br/><br/>Anyway I could resist to start reading the book immediately and I didn't regret.<br/><br/>About the book<br/>The title makes good in his promise. There is a lot of ice because most of the story takes place in the present Antarctica. And th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46342457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42796024">
    <user id="1228941">
    <name><![CDATA[Robert]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 10:32:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 29 18:54:29 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually a 4.5. A very strong mix of historical fiction, techno-thriller and horror. Full review on the blog next month...]]></body>
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    <review id="75933985">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 27 15:25:20 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay . . . I'll admit that parts of this were silly.  And I'll say that I'm not sure if this ended how I wanted it to.  At nearly 500 pages, it's a little longer than it needed to be.<br/><br/>Having said all that . . . this book is really quite good.  It's the creepy tale of a journalist in Antar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75933985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52855536">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because the author wrote a review of a book I had recently enjoyed and I liked what he wrote about it...so I read his latest novel...mistake!!  It's a genre I'm not fond of - sort of a combination of science fiction, vampires, adventure,a dab of history and a helping of cryogenics. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52855536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64453312">
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    <name><![CDATA[Liza]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm stopping this one at page 50.  It actually was okay.  The problem?  It wasn't anything special.  I took an hour break from reading to make some phone calls, and when I sat back down to write this e-mail I had to think hard to remember the content of the book.<br/><br/>Our protagonist, a photoj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64453312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63014378">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book dragged - and the premise of vampirism as a virus was grossly underexplored.  There were way too many &quot;events&quot; dropped in for impact where later information contradicted that those events even could occur.  Some of the best characters barely got any play and the ending left way to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63014378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55873838">
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  <read_at>Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i was, at 1st, excited at the prospect of a south pole quirky sci-fi story. i wasn going along just fine and then suddenly we had vampires. ugh. i'm all for them in the right setting - foggy london or transylvania - and some other century. this just seemed weird and out of place, but i went along wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55873838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A somewhat different take on vampires.  Michael Wilde is a journalist on assignment in Antarctica to take pictures and write a documentary for Eco-Travel magazine.  While diving they discover two people frozen in ice.  The story bounces back from the life the couple led in the 1800s, how they ended ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57528261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In his writing workshops Brandon Sanderson talks about strange attractors.  This entails taking two familiar yet dissimilar story elements and combining them to create an original story that is still accessible.  The best examples are movies: think <em>The Lion King</em> meets <em>Gladiator</em>.  Are you not enterta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46751083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As you can see, I had trouble deciding what category to put this book in.  I liked the beginning of the book best, told in 2 time periods, present day Antarctica and 1850's Europe.  Then the mystery of the the frozen couple in the ice, followed by the not my favorite living dead part.  Interesting p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56747706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the plot of this story, but for some reason I had a hard time getting through it. It took me about twice as long to read it as it should have for some reason. But it was pretty interesting, especially the detail to the South Pole and what goes on there in the way of research and living where...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52643528">more...</a>]]></body>
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