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mystikai's review
5.0
White Christmas was a fantastic quick read. I really cannot tell you much about it due to it being a short story and if I tell you more than the synopsis says then I would spoil it for you. Let’s just say that Ice Cave gets pretty steamy.
It is a must read, especially if you want a quick read.
I absolutely loved it. I think the author did a great job in getting enough detail and information into the book to make it a good read.
Well written and I will definitely be looking out more more from Ros Baxter.
It is a must read, especially if you want a quick read.
I absolutely loved it. I think the author did a great job in getting enough detail and information into the book to make it a good read.
Well written and I will definitely be looking out more more from Ros Baxter.
pixieparliament's review
2.0
Although novella's are usually a quick escape read, by the start of chapter one my kindle said I'd read 11% of the book and I hadn't even started. At 82% read the book ends so you don't get a whole lot of book. I think I read in as little as 30 minutes if that.
It had the premise for an interesting story, as it's set in the future after an apocalypse and humankind are fighting to survive, however there is no depth to the story as this is essentially setting the stage for two people to have raunchy sex and not much else. There is no investment in the characters, and probably no intention of doing so either.
Based on this book alone I wouldn't read any more by this author
It had the premise for an interesting story, as it's set in the future after an apocalypse and humankind are fighting to survive, however there is no depth to the story as this is essentially setting the stage for two people to have raunchy sex and not much else. There is no investment in the characters, and probably no intention of doing so either.
Based on this book alone I wouldn't read any more by this author
bwilhoite8's review
3.0
The author has good writing and the story line was interesting. There wasn't much to this novella though. The only Christmas about this book was the date and the guy singing a couple Christmas carols.
shell74's review
4.0
See my full review:
http://harlequinjunkie.com/review-white-christmas-by-ros-baxter/
http://harlequinjunkie.com/review-white-christmas-by-ros-baxter/
samstillreading's review
3.0
White Christmas is a short read – easily read in one sitting. Despite Christmas being in the title, I read it after Christmas with no problems. (Christmas is linked to the main characters but it is not the main focus). This was out of my comfort zone – I don’t tend to read anything that involves aliens or other worldly experiences (with the exception of Harry Potter and The Bone Season). However, as it was free on Amazon at the time and a finalist for sci-fi, fantasy or futuristic romances in the Australian Romance Readers Awards, I decided to give it a go. (It is also part of the ARRA finalists challenge –how many finalist books you can read – something that I have no chance of winning!)
Ros Baxter is an excellent writer in that she can develop a whole other world involving ice, space ships and aliens and make it believable in so few pages. It didn’t take long for me to picture the alien planet Tabi, our heroine, had crashed on. The tension when the aliens are about to eat Tabi and her comrade is palpable. (Actually, the aliens are ice vampires – I’m not sure what that entails but it sounds creepy to this chicken hearted girl). The steam building up between Tabi and Asha (who is her former lover) blows off the page. Then there’s just one thing they have to do to conquer the ice vampires because they really, really don’t like it when humans get it on. This bit was written well, but the premise for the sex was initially a bit weird to me. This could be because this genre is a) pretty foreign to me and b) it’s a short story, so things need to move at a cracking pace. I can’t really spoil the ending, but…I was satisfied.
The world building that Baxter does is fast, yet detailed. This made me wonder if there was more to come for Tabi, Asha and the new interplanetary world they find themselves in. I did like how this doesn’t fit into the usual Christmas fiction genre – kudos for that. I’d definitely read more of Ros Baxter in genres I am more comfortable in.
http://samstillreading.wordpress.com
Ros Baxter is an excellent writer in that she can develop a whole other world involving ice, space ships and aliens and make it believable in so few pages. It didn’t take long for me to picture the alien planet Tabi, our heroine, had crashed on. The tension when the aliens are about to eat Tabi and her comrade is palpable. (Actually, the aliens are ice vampires – I’m not sure what that entails but it sounds creepy to this chicken hearted girl). The steam building up between Tabi and Asha (who is her former lover) blows off the page. Then there’s just one thing they have to do to conquer the ice vampires because they really, really don’t like it when humans get it on. This bit was written well, but the premise for the sex was initially a bit weird to me. This could be because this genre is a) pretty foreign to me and b) it’s a short story, so things need to move at a cracking pace. I can’t really spoil the ending, but…I was satisfied.
The world building that Baxter does is fast, yet detailed. This made me wonder if there was more to come for Tabi, Asha and the new interplanetary world they find themselves in. I did like how this doesn’t fit into the usual Christmas fiction genre – kudos for that. I’d definitely read more of Ros Baxter in genres I am more comfortable in.
http://samstillreading.wordpress.com
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