Ice is the 9th book in the Reed Security Series and should be read in order.Ice. Lady Killer. Perpetual bachelor. Until Lindsey stepped into his life, Ice had never considered having a relationship ever again. He liked his life the way it was and that was the end of that conversation. But when Ice kidnaps Lindsey to protect her, he has no choice but to bring her home with him. And that’s where … him. And that’s where the problems begin. There’s a very fine line between love and hate, but which side will they land on?
“What the hell is that?” I shouted.
“My feet are cold. You keep it like an ice box in here.”
“So, put on some damn socks, woman!”
“No, I can’t sleep with socks on. My feet sweat and then I get uncomfortable.”
“So, it’s okay for you to sleep how you’re comfortable, but not me?”
“You’re sleeping naked. There’s a difference between being completely naked and sleeping without socks on.”
“For all I know, you could have some toe fungus and I could catch if from you because you don’t have socks on.”
“Really? A toe fungus?”
“People get them. I don’t know you. You could be one of those people that only changes their socks once a week.”
“This coming from the man that couldn’t remember the last time he washed his sheets,” she snorted.
“Hey, I work out of town a lot. It’s not like I sleep in my bed every night. And I always shower before I get in bed. It’s not like I’m dirty.”
“Sheets that aren’t washed regularly can cause acne. All that bacteria that lives in your bed can clog your hair follicles and your skin could break out.”
“I have flawless skin. I’m not worried,” I said in irritation.
“Do you know how many skin cells you leave behind in your bed?” She sat up and turned to me with a sneer. “You lose about 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute. So, in an eight hour night of sleep, you would lose at least 14,400,000 skin cells that are just hanging out on your sheets.”
“You have way too much time on your hands if you figured that out and remembered it.”
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I love and loathe when these books come out! Love because I can’t wait to read them, but loathe because it means I have another month to wait for the next one!! As you’ve come to expect of this series, it’s a brilliant read with the normal array of characters we’ve come to love. If you haven’t read any of this series yet – where have you been? You’ve missed so much! This can easily be read as a stand alone, but the previous books are so brilliant why wouldn’t you want to read them? and as the same characters appear in the series (differing main characters in each) you can fully understand and feel more immersed in the storyline. This one follows Ice and Lindsay and the laugh out loud moments they have, as well as the normal security threat we’ve come to expect where the boys can come racing in to save the day! I seriously recommend if you read one series of books this year – make it this one!
It doesn’t surprise me that this book is as good as all the books in the series.Maby even better.I loved it!
The sex scenes are really hot.The moment Ice realises that he is in love with Lindsey is the best moment ever.
This is the 9th book of the “Reed Security Series” by the amazing author, Giulia Lagomarsino and each story gets better and better and much hotter too 😉
Ice and Lindsey are both completely opposite to one another, like water and oil and yet they feel an intense attraction to one another that they don’t want to feel but they do. They try to fight it but at the end, the chemistry is too much and they give in. At first, Ice was unsure like Lindsey, if he could be in a committed relationship but as time passed, they both realized what they felt for each other was more than attraction… there are obstacles, misunderstandings and miscommunication with these two that cause friction, angst, anger, sorrow, resignation and defeat but thankfully with the group of the Reed Security Family and their women, they help these two very stubborn people by getting them both alone in a cabin to work their problems out and they do 😉
As always, the author, Giulia Lagomarsino has given us an incredible story, with both awesome and at the same time, complicated characters like Ice and his Lindsey, as well as amazing secondary characters that provide friendship, advice when needed, butt kicking also when needed and intervention when it was ABSOLUTELY NEEDED! This story also has enough heat to burn through the kindle pages, amazing chemistry, angst, pain, jealousy, humor, passion, anger, action and love. The ending was incredible and funny at the same time and I can’t wait for more stories from this series and from this great author 🙂
What if there was a highly trained, skilled & lethal ex-military man nicknamed ICE who worked for an exemplary security firm? What if this man’s nickname was earned in part due to his ice-cold emotionless ability to do any security assignment no matter the danger or complexity? What if he had erected ice hard walls around his heart & emotions when it came to commitment & love? What if a flaming torch of a woman came into his life & he didn’t know what to do with her?
Such is the premise of ‘ICE’, as well as his dilemma.
John ‘ICE’ Peters, a highly respected, efficient & effective member of the Reed Security firm finds himself adrift & buffeted by a raging storm named Lindsay. Against his better judgement & inclinations, ICE finds himself the only one able to help the bristly, irritating & argumentative B&B owner he rescued (Lindsay). With no family, friends, money or resources Lindsay has nowhere to go. And against her better judgement & inclinations (as well as several futile attempts to obtain assistance elsewhere) Lindsay ends up at ICE’s isolated cabin surrounded by forest.
Although both ICE & Lindsay ARE attracted to each other, both would rather die on the rack than admit their feelings. And when together, both are verbally combative, have emotional hair triggers & cannot, to save their lives, resist baiting each other & responding. While they are both excellent are lobbing insults, threats & accusations at one another, neither one seems to have the ability to actually stop & LISTEN to the other.
And after accidentally (yes, accidently) having sex both are confused: ICE doesn’t understand why he doesn’t want to move on as he has every other time in the past & Lindsay, alone (but not able to acknowledge to herself she is lonely) is terrified she’ll come to care for the handsome abrasive arrogant ICE.
The story has a lot of back & forth between these 2 explosive personalities, the Reed Security personnel & their women pop up for both ICE & Lindsay & try in their way to assist but the volatile pair are almost more than the Reeders & their women can handle.
This emotional rollercoaster of a book has steamy sex, humor that makes the reader laugh aloud, misunderstandings that cut & bring pain & heartache, life & death situations as well as destructive mistakes & decisions (I could have smacked Lindsay upside the head a couple times– but that’s just ME) that are seismic. The reader is pulled back & forth as ICE & Lindsay’s potential relationship is like an extreme orbit: sometimes close enough to the Sun to burn & other times so far distant it seems frozen & lost. Their interactions were loving, combative, supportive, angry, distrustful & trusting. The road they travel is pitted & strewn with rocks & boulders but never boring or bland.
I was very invested in both of them & their potential for a loving permanent relationship & I had my fingers crossed & hopes up that they’d have a HEA.
An excellent & emotional tale of 2 people who must learn to successfully overcome their natural tendencies in order to find & earn what they really want & need. I highly recommend it.
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Loving this series Ice and Lindsay story such an emotional story
He never considered having a relationship till she walked into his life.
They are so different to each other they don’t want to feel for the other but they do.
Loving this series
I did enjoy reading this story by Giulia Lagomarsino but I have to admit for me, Ice was not a very likable character and definitely lived up to his nickname. He and Lindsey had a love/hate relationship right from the start and it went like that throughout most of the book and seemed to drag on and on. The only thing they seemed to agree on is that they enjoyed having sex with each other. These two really had their work cut out for them if they wanted to have a future together and I wanted to see how they would accomplish this. I loved the humor that the men and women from Reed Security brought to the story which had me chuckling and made this book more enjoyable.
Fire and Ice!
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The heroine: Lyndsey – Owner of a Bed and Breakfast that Reed Security holed up in after rescuing their women from two gangs of Bikers that were out for blood. The guys took her with when they went to a safe house for her protection, but after returning she discovered everything she owned had been destroyed.
The Hero(es): John Peters (a.k.a. Ice) – He is called ice because he resembles the Iceman from Top Gun, but also because of the cold emotionless way he does his job at Reed Security. He also has a way with the women and he froze his heart long ago and wants to keep it that way.
The Story: Ice lets Lyndsey stay with him in his one bedroom house since she lost everything but the two of them get along like cats and dogs. Lyndsey is resentful of the fact that Ice strong armed her into leaving her home and the fact that it was destroyed.
This was definitely an enemies to lovers story and at first I didn’t like how much they seemed to hate each other. They were definitely attracted to one another but sometimes they were downright mean to each other and not in a way I could see them falling for one another. But as they had to be in close quarters, I saw how they could give in to the attraction and they fought less. Though I still think that Lyndsey was a bit of a shrew sometimes.
A lot of enemies to lovers stories have witty banter between the two main characters. I didn’t find their banter to be witty, just frustrating. Though I can’t say the same for the men of Reed Security. When the guys get together and talk about women and/or their problems with women, it is always hilarious. That is one of the best things about this series and this book was a great example of that.
I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
This book is full of angst but also anger and lust. It has a lot of love/hate moments between the couple.
Ice and Lindsey have a unbearable pull but can they get past their anger? And not listen to the Reed Security advice.
4.6 stars
I just love this series as each book just brings the sexy alpha men with the women who are their match. The ninth book in the Reed Security Series brings readers Ice and Lindsey’s story. Lindsey was left without a penny to her name and nowhere to live after the last mission. Fortunately, she has Ice but they are like oil and water and do not mix very well together. However, when Ice takes her to his home and they spend time together, feelings begin to change. When Ice makes an error, it causes Lindsey to overreact and sever the growing ties between them. Can these two get past their issues and make a relationship work? This is another well written, witty, page turning storyline that is filled with steam, humor, misunderstandings and a lot of drama that is not to be missed. I volunteered to read a copy of this book.
Action, emotion, and steam! You get everything in this book. It’s emotional at times but you get humor as well, which I love. Ice and Lindsey are complete opposites, but for some reason, still work. They’re like oil and water that you can actually mix together and get something delicious!
Ice and Lindsey
Love/hate, more love/hate, and more love/hate. Ice rescue-kidnapped Lindsey when enemies shot up and destroyed her B&B. It was taking her or leave her to be killed. While she was hot he hated listening to her verbal abuse for the entire time they were together.
Seems hate-speak was their norm. They both were hot for the other but they couldn’t get past their anger. So goes most of the story with moments of humor and steam. Is it possible these two could actually be together? (not if they take advice freely given by his Reed Security family)
The expected humor was there with moments of action and the two making it together both emotionally and physically. THEN they go back to fighting and it begins again.
Overall I enjoyed the book, however, the love/hate tug of war was just a little much for me.
In this story, we get to really look at the contensious relationship between Ice and Lindsey. This should be interesting! Oh my gosh, Lindsey and Ice are a hoot! Talk about this being a true love-hate or is that hate-love story! These two are like oil and water. I Love that Chris and the group at Reed Security like and have a soft spot for Lindsey and look after her. Especially when Ice is a total jerk!!! Chris, Jules, and Ice in the woods is a hoot. What happens to Lindsey when she goes on a walk? I love how she takes no flack from Ice!Maggie’s form of revenge against Sebastian’s actions had me setting my asthma off! What Jules says after the show the next day had me ready to cry. Oh lord, Gettysburg…Sinner’s comment before the roadtrip…. oh my! This was such a fun read! Check it out!
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Another terrific addition to the Reed Security series with fantastic writing, to-die-for characters and a great storyline. I love this hate/love story with hunk John aka Ice kidnapping Lindsey to protect her. The start of their relationship is iffy but the ending is so sexy. Such a fabulous couple in this wonderful series. Can’t wait for the next story!
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I found this to be a superb storyline that grabs you right from the start keeping you engrossed and on edge throughout the whole book!
I was very impressed with how simply and effortlessly this author told this addicting, multi-layered story with well-developed world building and great characters.
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He is ice by name and by nature. He had to kidnap her to keep her safe but he may just found the one who would be good for him. Life is about to get amusing between them. What will happen? Can he keep her safe? See if he can
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What a wonderful read! The plot is great and fast moving, the characters are delightful with their humorous conversations throughout the book! This book seems to literally disappear, before I knew it, I was at the end, it really does hold your attention with the witty plot and dialogue! There is a great sexy alpha male and a strong female who isn’t going to give in easily.
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I like this story It grabbed and caught my attention from the first page kept me enthralled has so many twist and turns and unexpected challenges in between till the finale
Book nine in Reed Security series. This series is absolutely amazing and Ice just told the cake so to speak. Love the fact Lindsey doesn’t make it easy for him. Highly recommend!!!!
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I have to say ICE is my favorite of them all. I have read all of the books in this series and the companion series “For the Love of a Good Woman” and I have really enjoyed all but one of them. ICE beats them all. The banter between Ice and Lindsey was off the charts fun. I loved how these two people that were so used to making their own way in the world found that making their way together could be better. It was a bumpy ride, very emotional and at times down right laugh out loud fun. I would not trade the reading of this one for anything. I found myself so invested in this story and these characters, I felt like something in my own personal life depended on them finding the road to happiness. I can’t recommend this one enough. It is a great read, yummy mind candy for the heart and soul. This one will leave you emotionally drained and fully satisfied.
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I am a big fan of Giulia Lagomarsino who writes of heroines who can hold their own and heroes dying to hold them. Her books are full of laughs, friendships, loyalty, tormented emotions, raw passion, and so much more… and this book is no exception!
When she loses her house and business all because of Reed Securities, John (ICE) offers Lindsey to stay with him. What he doesn’t expect is to fall for the infatuating woman.
From the moment she met him, Lindsey realized what a cocky womanizer he was and decided to avoid him. But circumstances throw them together and she cannot resist falling for him.
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