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Frozen Sun (2002)

by Stan Jones(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0979980372 (ISBN13: 9780979980374)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bowhead Press

series

Nathan Active Mystery

review 1: Alaska State Trooper Nathan Jones is asked by the Chukchi high school principal, Jason Palmer, to find his missing daughter, Grace, who left home 10 years ago and was last seen on The Junction, a seedy strip of bars in Anchorage. A former Miss North World, the photos of Grace show a stunning teenager. So Nathan, although not officially on the case, begins to do some digging when he's sent to Anchorage for a computer class. This causes a rift between Nathan and his girlfriend Lucy, who is jealous of Grace. But can there be something behind Lucy's jealously? Is there another reason Nathan is going beyond the obligations of his job? In this, the third book, Jones has hit his stride. His descriptions of Alaska and the culture made books one and two very readable, but here he c... moreomplements that with a compelling storyline and well-drawn characters.
review 2: This book, for me, was a great disappointment with Nathan, the main character, behaving badly and out of character. There are lots of distasteful issues with this book, the most notable being pedophelia, incest, prostitution and sexual abuse of animals.Nathan, a cautious and thoughtful man, sees a picture of a missing once-upon-a-time beauty queen, a woman prettier than his long-time girlfriend, Lucy, whom he is considering marrying, and immediately begins thinking below the belt. He is intrigued by the mystery surrounding Grace, the missing woman, and while trying constantly to put it from his mind, instead keeps pursuing the case, although it isn't his case or a case at all.Quite honestly, Nathan's behavior didn't make any sense to me and I didn't care for Grace, start to finish. She isn't a very believable character since, after living for a decade on the streets of Anchorage, she simply decides she'll try to fix what's wrong with herself and is again just as beautiful as she always was, even though she was drunk and a prostitute for years, sleeping under cars in the wintertime in Alaska. Given all the examples of how brilliant she is supposed to be, it's hard for me as a reader to believe that she wasn't smart enough to find a way to deal with her demons better than the choices she made. How about a DNA sample on the child that would prove what she was saying was true? Big plot hole.I hoped to get to know Nathan's adoptive family, since he went to stay with them while he did some computer training for his job as a state trooper, but they barely appeared. I wanted to know these people and why their adoption of him has left him so scarred, angry with his birth mother and unable to forgive her or trust any woman. There was only one brief conversation with his adoptive mother, lasting not even two pages. I got no sense of her personality at all. Not sure why they were even in the book. Although this book is much more a personal story about Nathan, I didn't feel like I understood him any better at the end of it, in fact, less so than in previous books. The idea that he simply couldn't stop thinking about this woman because she was so beautiful and alluring or whatever she was, seemed to be opposite of how his character was created. He is very career driven, not even kissing his girlfriend, Lucy, in public when in uniform, but he takes up with a woman who has an arrest record that includes a murder charge. Nonsense. If the author wanted to give Nathan a wife and child, Lucy would have been a much better choice and not so complicated or ridiculous. This made it seem like Nathan was simply using Lucy for all the time they were together. Didn't like the way this turned out. Nathan seems to have generally made a mess of his life over this woman and he deserves better. Sad. less

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