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Therese Heckenkamp wrote After the Thaw as a sequel to Frozen Footprints, no doubt to her reader’s delight. I read this as a stand alone. I do, however, think due to the plot escalating from the kidnapping in Frozen Footprints, I would have understood it quicker and enjoyed it even more had I read Frozen Footprints first.
I found Heckenkamp’s combination of suspense, drama and romance to be simply perfect. The plot was ever twisting and turning giving enough breadcrumbs to keep me turning the page. The characters were splendid; varied, well plotted and developed in such a way you feel as if you know them and feel invested in their lives. She moves beyond developing just a couple of main characters. She gives us insight into quite a few characters making the storyline even more real. She explores the entire spectrum of passions from kindness to cruelty, benevolence to inhumanity, love to lust, depravity to unselfishness and honesty to deception. We see the gamut of good and evil. We see evil in a violent form that is quite distasteful but fits the nature of storyline.
Heckenkamp hooks us from the beginning. First, a scene at the prison with Clay and Nails. Then moving to three years later with Charlene and Ben at the cliffs. She displays remarkable skill in setting the storyline. I was hooked from that point making it difficult to do anything until I finished reading the entire book.
A couple small things I will mention on the negative side. I did find her dragging out some of the suspense, almost repeating some of scenes with Nail about two-thirds way through. Some of that could have been left out. Also, some of what happened with Charlene was a bit much. Could everyone and everything in her life go wrong at the exact same time and in such bizarre ways?
This was my first Heckenkamp book and I was very impressed. I highly recommended After the Thaw. Be sure and get your coffee, blanket and get comfortable because you will not want to move until you have read it cover to cover!
I received an Advanced Reading Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I found Heckenkamp’s combination of suspense, drama and romance to be simply perfect. The plot was ever twisting and turning giving enough breadcrumbs to keep me turning the page. The characters were splendid; varied, well plotted and developed in such a way you feel as if you know them and feel invested in their lives. She moves beyond developing just a couple of main characters. She gives us insight into quite a few characters making the storyline even more real. She explores the entire spectrum of passions from kindness to cruelty, benevolence to inhumanity, love to lust, depravity to unselfishness and honesty to deception. We see the gamut of good and evil. We see evil in a violent form that is quite distasteful but fits the nature of storyline.
Heckenkamp hooks us from the beginning. First, a scene at the prison with Clay and Nails. Then moving to three years later with Charlene and Ben at the cliffs. She displays remarkable skill in setting the storyline. I was hooked from that point making it difficult to do anything until I finished reading the entire book.
A couple small things I will mention on the negative side. I did find her dragging out some of the suspense, almost repeating some of scenes with Nail about two-thirds way through. Some of that could have been left out. Also, some of what happened with Charlene was a bit much. Could everyone and everything in her life go wrong at the exact same time and in such bizarre ways?
This was my first Heckenkamp book and I was very impressed. I highly recommended After the Thaw. Be sure and get your coffee, blanket and get comfortable because you will not want to move until you have read it cover to cover!
I received an Advanced Reading Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
