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Sep 25, 2016neha_rainbows rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
What the hell? This book was an absolute mess. I was initially intrigued by the setting of Arctic researchers and because I talked to the author and she was lovely. I hoped the book would turn the tired fairytale tropes around, where maybe the bear who kidnaps her and forces her into marriage and tries to rape her because 'that's what married people do' and magically negates the effects of her birth control so that she gets pregnant without wanting to would be the villain and not the romantic hero? Just a thought? He's also a literal polar bear for most of their marriage. She 'falls in love' with him while he's a literal polar bear. Past the tired sexist cliches I was so hoping would be subverted, the book dives immediately into the plot and solves the final conflict with a stern conversation and a bit of magic in all of 10 pages. This book was absolutely trite, offensive, and poorly written. An enormous disappointment.