The Colors of Cold A New Story from The Age of Ice edition by J M Sidorova Literature Fiction eBooks
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A stunning new ebook original story by J. M. Sidorova
Includes an exclusive excerpt of Sidorova’s acclaimed debut novel, The Age of Ice.
Speculative fiction icon John Crowley calls J. M. Sidorova’s The Age of Ice “marvelous.” Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club, hails it as “everything you could want in a novel.” Now, in this special ebook-only story, Sidorova returns to the world of The Age of Ice—her captivating blend of fiction, history, and fantasy—offering a mesmerizing new tale of the power of cold.
In April 1814, just days after Napoléon’s defeat by the coalition of the European powers, Prince Alexander Velitzyn, the hero of The Age of Ice, is drifting around Paris, coming to grips with the brutality of the war and his role in it. Unbeknownst to him, Alexander strolls through the same passageways as another human being just like him.
Hidden behind costume and makeup, twenty-two-year-old Cherie performs a daily show in the Palais-Royal, a noble palace where shopkeepers and showgirls have set up all manner of risqué commerce—boutiques, gambling rooms, and pubs designed to satiate every desire of the senses. Cherie, though, is an unusual act. Her feat relies on physics, not trickery.
She is a young woman making do with the fate she’s been dealt—not just the terror of revolution, but her own, crippling coldness. Then, one evening, a wounded young soldier named Julien comes to her room, and what happens threatens to upend Cherie’s notion of the world and herself.
The Colors of Cold is a beautifully imagined glimpse into two lives trapped by frost—metaphorical and literal—set amid one of the most stirring moments in the history of Paris.
The Colors of Cold A New Story from The Age of Ice edition by J M Sidorova Literature Fiction eBooks
i'm hooked - it's the first book i'm reading on my new Kindle paperwhite (Christmas gift!).I love this author's style, and thank god for the built-in dictionary - a writer myself, i'm STILL learning a lot of new words.
this falls, for me, into the "Geek Love" genre, whatever that may be. The characters are fascinating to me, and there is gentle suspense in every word. I'm also fond of the time period in which it takes place.
i'm very encouraged to actually purchase The Age of Ice, even if the Kindle price is almost as much as a hardcover edition, as I love this author's capabilities so much. i appear to be one of the few so far who's reading the Colors of Cold first. i don't even remember downloading it, but there it was when i connected my new Kindle. glad for that!
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The Colors of Cold A New Story from The Age of Ice edition by J M Sidorova Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
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Just not my favorite read. I had very strange feelings of something missing. This book is too cold for me!
The Colors of Cold is a fantasy set in France during the 1800s. The writing has a dream-like quality; it is very visual and uses forms and shapes to convey much of the story. I was reminded of some episodes of the old TV series "Night Gallery" -- not because of similarity in plot or events but because of the way the story unfolds. It is very well written although it took a few pages for the story to begin to grab me. Once it took hold, however, it pulled me through to the end and gave a very satisfying journey. I look forward to reading more of the author's work.
This book did not hold my interest enough for me to finish it. The basic idea, born in frozen ice, seemed a bit odd to me. Then I could not get to feeling interested in the story line so I stopped reading it about half way through. It may be your idea of a great novel, but not mine.
Set in the same world as the Age of Ice, Colors of Cold is about a young woman in 1814 with an affliction remarkably similar to the protagonist of the novel Prince Alexander Velitzyn. The author evokes the time period in abundant sensory details, painting a picture so vivid it's hard not to shiver with an imaginary touch of frost. It's a quick, rewarding read, with a nice emotional payoff, and comes with a sample chapter from the novel.
Immediate reaction WTF, I don’t even know what I just read! I saw someone tweet about this being an freebie and it sounded really interesting so I decided to check it out. I shouldn’t have wasted my time. But OK, let’s see if I can figure this out (slight spoilers ahead I suppose).
The actual short story is only 20 pages long, and then there are about the first 40 pages of the full length book, The Age of Ice. The short story is in a similar vein to the original book. It tells of a woman in Paris during the revolution who has a special ability to become cold and produce snow just by controlling her emotions. She also is a dancer and prostitute, and one day meets a young war veteran who lost his leg in the cold of Russia and feels a painful cold in his phantom leg. He has come to her to meet the Snow Queen (the name of her act) whom he thinks can cure him. That’s basically it. The writing was incredibly confusing at times, but at others there was moments of beauty. For the most part it didn’t work for me, but had I read just the short story alone, I may have given it 2 stars.
The excerpt from The Age of Ice however, brought the rating down to 1 stars. Basically the book is set in Russia, where the Empress, for her own cruel entertainment, builds an ice palace and shuts in a man and a deformed female jester overnight, telling them to have sex. They do in an attempt not to die from hypothermia, and the woman becomes pregnant, giving birth to two boys, Alexander and Andrei and then dying (nice, huh?). Alexander as a pre-teen discovers that he doesn’t sense the cold, can hold onto snow without it melting, and as he matures, that certain emotions (anger, arousal, joy) make him go incredibly cold. Basically the 40 pages were just about Alexander and Andrei drifting apart, and Andrei becoming bitter with his brother, while Alexander has a bad sexual experience with the latest empress, and then goes around masturbating and trying to have sex with women to see if his being extremely cold (to the point of burning a woman) during sex is normal or not. I was bored out of mind, and I couldn’t believe this took up 40 pages!!!! The writing wasn’t all that great either. I get how it is historical fiction mixed with fantasy/sci-fi but it just did NOT work, in my opinion. I could hardly read the 40 pages of the excerpt, let alone the entire 416 pages of The Age of Ice!
So this 2nd book came as a surprise to me since I was looking forward to another whole novel. For some reason I had no clue that it wasn't. Boy was I disappointed. I loved the Age of Ice so much. Anyway what there was of this book was quite good...hence my disappointment. Why this tease? I see I'm not alone in not knowing about it's short length. Had I read this first I might have gone on to the full length book. But I'm not sure. I'd be wondering what happened to the characters. The short story characters are not in the other book. Yes, the main characters have similar problems with being cold. Yet one is a man, the other a woman. I am hoping the author is going to finish what she started here. I'd very much like to read the rest of the story'.
i'm hooked - it's the first book i'm reading on my new paperwhite (Christmas gift!).
I love this author's style, and thank god for the built-in dictionary - a writer myself, i'm STILL learning a lot of new words.
this falls, for me, into the "Geek Love" genre, whatever that may be. The characters are fascinating to me, and there is gentle suspense in every word. I'm also fond of the time period in which it takes place.
i'm very encouraged to actually purchase The Age of Ice, even if the price is almost as much as a hardcover edition, as I love this author's capabilities so much. i appear to be one of the few so far who's reading the Colors of Cold first. i don't even remember downloading it, but there it was when i connected my new . glad for that!
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