Summer Reading Response- Ice

The book Ice by Sarah Beth Drust, was very good, in my opinion. It was a story about a girl who lives in Antarctica, and goes on a journey to save her husband, a journey that everyone says she can't do. But, it's a fairy tale, so it's a little different than other typical love stories. Her husband is part polar bear, and her mom was captured by trolls, the same trolls that her husband is later captured by. This book was very fun to read because it was so unique, it had so much great detail and imagination.
In this whole book, i never knew what was going to happen next.

In the beginning of the book the protagonist, Cassie, rushed into something that she had no clue about. Her husband also knew her mom, and he made a deal that if he could get the trolls to free her, then Cassie would have to marry him, which she agreed to, and for a while she was very unhappy. I think that she should of really thought it through, and decided what would be best for everyone, not everyone but her. But, then again, i understand why she agreed so quickly. It's her mom, and all she ever really wanted was to have her back.

Towards the middle of the book, Cassie decided that she was going to go on a very dangerous journey to save her husband from being a slave for the trolls forever. i thought this was very brave of her, she is willing to risk her life for someone she really cares about, no matter what happened. and it is especially brave of her to disobey everyone else's thoughts and opinions, and go on this journey, with no help. But, she wasn't only risking her life, she was also risking her baby's. Just before her husband got captured she got pregnant, and this was certainly not a time for her to be traveling across Antarctica, with little gear and no help. She was pregnant, whether she liked it or not, and she has to think of what will benefit her baby during that time, and all she was thinking about was her own happiness. Even if she was doing this to save someone, it really only was because she was unhappy about being without them.

This book really made me think about how much you can change in such little time. Cassie went from hating it with her husband to risking her life for him. she went from wanting to meet her mother, to wanting to change her. she went from hating her baby to loving her. But even after all of these changes,
she was still the same person, she still had the same type of opinions, emotions, wants, and needs. To me this shows that no matter how much you change or try to change, you will really always be the same person inside, it's just who you are.