Surviving Ice by K.A. Tucker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ivy, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is finally looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have found it in San Francisco, but all that changes when she witnesses a terrible crime. She’s ready to pack up her things yet again, when a random encounter with a stranger keeps her in the city, giving her reason to stay after all.
That is, until Ivy discovers that their encounter wasn’t random. Not at all…
Surviving Ice
Interesting story and characters!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚🖤
Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😊😄😘🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Ivy – she is a tattoo artist with wanderlust in her soul. She picks up every two to four months and moves from place to place. However, she thought she had finally found a home with her uncle Ned. She lived rent free at his house and worked at his tattoo shop in San Francisco. She was there for over seven months and had no inkling to move on. When all the sudden one day, Ned and a client were murdered in the shop. Ivy was hiding in the back at the time.
The Hero: Sebastian (a.k.a. Ice) – he is a former Navy SEAL who works as a mercenary/assassin for Alliance, the biggest private security firm in world. His boss, Bentley, was his commanding officer when they were in Afghanistan. While laying low in Santorini, he gets a call from Bentley to return to California in order to fix a situation that has come up. A tattoo artist who heard too much from a disgruntled employee of Alliance has tried to blackmail Bentley and the guys he sent to get the video evidence, botched things by killing the guy before finding the evidence.
The Story: Sebastian gets the job to find the missing video tape (Ned didn’t believe in any newer security system) and he also was given the job to determine if Ivy knows anything and to take care of her as well if she turns out to be a loose end. He is not fond of having to possibly kill a woman since most of his jobs involve middle aged men with morally grey characters. He refuses to kill an innocent woman but has to determine what she knows and if she is a threat to Alliance Private Security. The company gets jobs from the government and CIA to do things that can’t be done by the military and the video has evidence that Alliance may have been involved in torturing prisoners for information.
I really liked the characters, especially Ivy. She was quirky and fierce. Sebastian is a pretty good guy, for an assassin. He lived by his own set of morals, but at least he has morals. He also has his own issues that he was dealing with. He had been engaged once, but after that didn’t work out, he never saw himself as the settling down type. Both of these characters are wanderers, who never stay put in one place so they are kind of perfect for each other.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Sebastian York and Olivia Song. Olivia has a bit of a harsh voice which is kind of deep for a woman, though it does fit the character of Ivy. Though I don’t really like her voice for Sebastian. Sebastian York is always a great narrator. He has a deep and gravelly voice which I really like, and he is great at doing different voices for different characters.
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