Under the Ice Blades by Lindsay Buroker [Review]

Under the Ice Blades (Dragon Blood #5.5) by Lindsay Buroker
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: July 9, 2022

Dragon Blood
0.5. Dragon Rider
 1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge
2. Deathmaker
3. Blood Charged
4. Patterns in the Dark
5. The Blade's Memory
5.5. Under the Ice Blades - Paperback | Kindle
6. Raptor
7. Soulblade
7.1. The Fowl Proposal
7.5. Shattered Past
7.8. Crazy Canyon
8. Oaths

Lindsay Buroker
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Captain Astuawilda Kaika is an elite forces soldier, a demolitions expert, and a woman who loves secret missions. She most certainly isn’t someone with the patience to teach General Zirkander’s raw cadets how to survive encounters with the enemy. Certain she’s been given this duty as a punishment, she confronts her superiors, only to find out that King Angulus himself gave her the assignment.

When she attempts to reasonably and respectfully—and certainly not presumptuously—explain to him that she’s not suited for teaching, she gets swept up in a mission to a secret research facility that has been invaded by enemy agents. Soon, she, King Angulus, and General Zirkander are engrossed in an investigation that could change the world—and destroy all that they know.

Thoughts on Under the Ice Blades: Not going to lie, Angulus getting tongue-tied around Kaika and worrying about whether she'd find him boring (when compared to, say, Ridge who routinely flies into glorious battle and pulls miraculous defeats of the enemy out of thin air) is pretty great. The guy's a king, used to leading and engaging on a big level, and yet one saucy soldier throws him for a loop.

On Kaika's end, she's kind of clueless about Angulus's feelings. Mostly because he's a king and she's very much not part of his circle. Yet...YET, he likes her. He likes her propensity for causing a little chaos and he likes that she checks out his butt. Which is VERY MUCH a thing Kaika does.

An unexpected mission that ends up fraught with danger, a hidden surprise, an endearingly awkward king, and a whole lot of upheaval that looks like it might cause some repercussions down the line. *thumbs up*