A mermaid’s supernatural beauty serves one purpose: to lure a sailor to his death.
The Massacre is supposed to bring peace to Eriana Kwai. Every year, the island sends its warriors to battle these hostile sea demons. Every year, the warriors fail to return. Desperate for survival, the island must decide on a new strategy. Now, the fate of Eriana Kwai lies in the hands of twenty battle-trained … battle-trained girls and their resistance to a mermaid’s allure.
Eighteen-year-old Meela has already lost her brother to the Massacre, and she has lived with a secret that’s haunted her since childhood. For any hope of survival, she must overcome the demons of her past and become a ruthless mermaid killer.
For the first time, Eriana Kwai’s Massacre warriors are female, and Meela must fight for her people’s freedom on the Pacific Ocean’s deadliest battleground.
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First Place Winner: Dante Rossetti Awards 2014
Foreword 10 Best Indie YA novels of 2014
Foreword Reviews’ 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist
Praise for Ice Massacre
“… thought provoking and intelligent … fresh and thoroughly entertaining … Warner does a fantastic job creating a tight plot and masterfully creates a sense of atmosphere through subtle yet potent descriptions … Ice Massacre is a truly exceptional book.”
– Foreword Clarion Reviews, 5-star review
“Fascinating, unique, scary and written with a beautiful economy of words…”
– 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, Honourable Mention
“I instantly fell in love with the story …”
– Readers Favorite, 5-star review
“A bold, haunting tale of friendship, treachery and courage.”
– T. Rae Mitchell, author of Fate’s Fables
“… Warner is a gifted writer and crafts a gripping story …”
– Wendy Dewar Hughes, author of Picking up the Pieces
“… non-stop action fuelled by sea lore, conflicted motivation, heart-to-head-to-hand combat, and kick-ass females. A page-turning, blood-pulsing ride that will leave you catching your breath as you await the sequel.”
– Claudia Osmond, author of Smudge’s Mark
“Fast paced and gripping …”
– P.A. Wilson, author of the Quinn Larson Quests
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The rating is more like 1.5 stars really. The action is written well in this story but the reason of the action is beyond entertaining and well created, it’s just absurd really. The people in this book is stupid. The mermaids or ‘sea demons’ are more interesting than the humans are and they probably make more sense too, logically speaking. Oh I can go on for hours about how this book could be better and better yet, nonexistent. Forbidden love between a human and mermaid, yeah I can see the mystery of that fatal romance can be compelling but the story around is gruesome and superfluous. I seriously can’t believe that a small island of 4,000 people can survive 20 years of ‘massacre’ for their children and the still have a viable population to send more children to die for years to come. There was logic nowhere in this book. Personally, sure I want Lysi and Meela to be together but so did other romantic readers with Romeo and Juliet. At least that story had a hidden meaning to learn from it. The message I got from this 1st installment was to not stay on an island that’s infested with sea demons bent on killing and/or taking all your strapping young men (which they willingly gave to the mermaids to each year! Lmao! Especially since it seems that it’s common knowledge that they’re turned in mermen! How sick and twisted are these islanders? Very I would say.)
I seriously believe others who rated this book or robots and computer generated fakes to make this book look and sound great. Because it isn’t. Not in the slightest. I read others review while I was at 8% of the book to see many people gush over the fact that it’s Lesbian! And there’s a main character of Color! That’s great! Really great! But it’s still okay to give a bad book a bad review. No one will judge you too harshly be cause really, they believe it too. I’m not interested in reading the second one. None of the characters invited to see how they’re doing in the 2nd book. I think all of them will be too busy get intense therapy and mass counseling sessions for the whole community for the at fact that over the past two decades, they have been breeding arrogance, hatred and indoctrination of bigotry and somehow managed to keep enough money not for finding ways to get off their cursed island or better feed themselves but to put money in for the Massacre each year with food, archaic useless weapons in the modern day and wooden warships that have equipment to sear fish but electricity or gas to have working lights? What even.
And oh yeah other robots that reviewed this book – you must be joking about comparing this book of mermaids to Disney’s The Little Mermaid right? There are other creative works of mermaids from human society, you realise that right?
The original Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Anderson and the sirens from Greek mythology like in the Odyssey? Their classic works and probably free on Kindle too. 🙁
I LOVED this book! The characters were fantastic, and I love seeing representation of poc and lgbt people not just as sidekicks, but as the main cast. This book might even fail the reverse Bechdel test! I have been recommending this book to all of my friends and so far it has been a hit.
I loved this author’s way of writing. The characters were very interesting. I like that the story was clean enough to read with my children, except for a few bad words and some violence. She hooked me on the story and kept me hooked to the end.
Spoiler Alert: I gave it four stars because in the very last sentence, she turned this into a LGBT book. I saw the story as a very close loving friendship between two young girls, a mermaid and a human. Their friendship and loyalty to each other was encouraging and uplifting. It made the story worthwhile to the reader. However, the decision to twist that loving friendship into something perverse confused story.