This book follows Ember who is traveling to the city of Frost from the city of Dusk with her best friend Eli. They must survive the frozen, desolate plains following a mostly broken compass. This world is a few generations in after the death of what the outsiders call "the great machine" and the world that they know is covered in snow and ice. Only a few remaining elders remember their world from Before, and control the quickly dwindling food they have left. This is the first young-adult fantasy/dystopian book in a trilogy, all of which are out.

The story is being told from 1 pov, the details offered by the author and the world-building were really amazing and I’ve enjoyed them a lot, they were really nice addition to the book and my imagination and they made sense while reading. The world-building overall wasn’t very complex but was intriguing, all the talk about the engine dying down left me with lots of questions that I hope will be answered in the next book.

The book in general didn’t feel like a quick read for me, I felt it dragging because nothing interesting was happening. I can’t say is a bad book, it did catch my attention and made me be curious about what’s yet to come – but sadly it took the entire book for that to happen. Most of the book was all about Eli, Ember, and Felix and their life every day and curiosity of Ember of what’s behind the wall.

The “Before” and the “Engine” are mentioned a couple of times in the book but are not fully explained because no one, including Ember and Eli, doesn’t have much information about them, so it leaves the reader in a confused state wondering what in the world happened – which sort of draws you in, because you keep on reading to find out what exactly happened but unfortunately we do not get an explanation on this book about it.

The relationship between Ember and Eli I feel wasn’t developed enough, it was just explained to us shortly and then it kind of died down them drifting apart until close to the end. The relationship between Ember and Felix was also strange, they were friends but some of their actions denoted they might want to be something else? The relationships in the story were a little bit confusing, Feli and Ember especially when in the book it is mentioned Eli asked Ember to marry him ?? But their relationship barely was even talked about in the book – that part of the story was really confusing to me and didn’t make much sense.

The book in general I do think it got potential because the subject it’s interesting and pretty intriguing, I do hope the next book will contain more character development and also more questions to be answered. The book also mentions cannibalism, but nothing is shown or developed further.

Queen of Frost is the first book in the Frost trilogy by Aria Noble. This book is easy and quick to read, fast paced, with an action packed plot. The worldbuilding was beautifully described and well written.

Ember and Eli are best friends who grew in Dusk, a place after the Before, but their home is now dying. It is cold, covered in snow and the resources are limited. Making staying alive an everyday fight. What makes it all the more difficult is that Eli and Ember are the only two youths left in Dusk. Growing up, they heard stories about the mythical city of Frost. An advanced city with food, machines, innovations and more. Eli has always dreamt about going to Frost. Leading Ember and Eli to flee Dusk for Frost, adventuring through a frozen Savanna.

After several weeks of traveling the duo make it to Frost, it's almost a paradise. However Ember begins to feel as if something wasn’t right; not with Frost and not with its people. Ember is assigned a task by the Queen of Frost, to help fix malfunctioning automatons.

With some time Eli and Ember’s friendship becomes distant and strained. Eli wants to return to Dusk but Ember wants to stay behind with a new friend she made at Frost and uncover the secrets she believes the Queen is hiding.

I want to know more about the relationship between Ember’s father and the queen, as well as more buildup on the characters. I feel more could be told about them. Hopefully those could be uncovered in book 2.

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me an ARC.

This was a marvelous read. I liked the dystopian world and the unique setting. I will definitely read the other books in this serie.

Ember and Eli are from the city Dusk. A town that are freezing to death with very little food supplies.

They decide to find the mythical city Frost that promise a better life.
They journey thrue the icy tundra and finds Frost's icy walls.

Ember and Eli explore their new home but Ember starts to wonder whats powers the city and keeps it warm. And why are the towns people worshiping a queen and says that everything is from the queen's magic?

Nice quick read. I think there’s room for improvement but it was a good story. Ember seems to be a curious character but I wished for a bit more world building and explaining of what exactly happened in the “Before” and how things came to be as they were in the story. Not sure if will read rest of books yet. TBA!

I really enjoyed this book by Aria Noble. It was very interesting and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.

A solid quick read with a promising storyline that I will continue with in the series. Good characters, I'm looking forward to the next 2 books.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me an ARC
This was a nice quick read. I did enjoy and look forward to reading the other books.

Ember’s home is dying and with her best friend she flees. They find the city of Frost that they are quickly welcomed into and give a job. Quickly the city is not what it seems.
The author created a unique magical world, and I liked the way the author added plenty of detail when it came to describing the way the world looks. I enjoyed how fast pace this book. I wish the writer had added more information about the time before, but hopefully it is better discussed in the rest of the series. I also wish we got more information on the main character other than that she likes to “tinker”. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would be interested in reading the rest of the series.

Quite enjoyed the quick read following Ember and her friend Eli on their journey to find answers in Frost. Loved the descriptive writing and excited to see how the series will continue on following these lovable characters. 3 stars

Nice, quick read. I liked that this book is short. I liked the descriptive writing. However, I do think there is some room from improvement. There were some inconsistencies and could have been more details about certain aspects. But it was entertaining enough and I didn't dislike it. A solid 2.5 for me.

3.5*

*Thanks to Netgalley for providing me an ARC*

This was an interesting read. This book actually reminded me a bit of Divergent. Eli and Ember set out to find a mythical city--Frost and things took a turn. I liked the world-building but I wish we had more of it. I wanted to know more about the Old City and the copters that were in the cathedral. How did the copters get there? Why were they there?

We also never really know much about Felix and how Ember was able to go along with him so easily. I do agree with Eli on being cautious; that's not necessarily a bad thing but Ember wasn't really cautious about Felix and I had to ponder how Ember was able to trust him.

I'm also curious about the Before. It sounds interesting based on little information from Ember when Felix asked what it is but we never got a full story about Before. What exactly is it? Regarding with the wall, why was the Queen was intent on the people not finding out about the wall? WHY was she hiding it? What's the reason?

I wanted to know more of the people too. I think if the book was to be a bit longer, it would be good. We also didn't know why the Queen knew Ember's father. Did the father worked for the Queen? I also did wanted to know more about Ember and Eli; Ember especially. She was an interesting character but we didn't really know much about her other than that she likes to tinker around machines. Maybe in the second book more answers about Ember would come.

Regardless, this was an interesting read and an easy to read.

Great storyline and lifelike characters. This was a really good read and I can't wait until the next one comes out.

Queen of Frost is the first book in the Frost Trilogy by Aria Noble. Queen of Frost is very well written and interesting book. The imagery description of Ember and Eli is written in a way which I can imagine on what they may look like. I was intrigued by the visual description of the mythical city of Frost. Ember befriends pale friendly male, she also notes how pale and friendly showing wide smiles.
Ember finds work to serve the Queen and maintain the wall as robotic service people mention that the walls are breaking. The walls separates the citizens of Frost from the monsters of the Wastes.#QueenofFrost #NetGalley
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I was hooked on this book! The story built really well and the characters were nicely fleshed out. Excited for book two!

Follow the story of Ember and Eli and their search for the mythical city of Frost. This is an easy book that you can read in an afternoon, but I feel it’s missing something, perhaps depth. But being the first book in a trilogy, it may be that the plot is more developed and the characters have some growth in the following books. Just because « she tinkers with things » doesn’t make a story steampunk.
Acompaña a Ember y a Eli, quienes abandonan la moribunda ciudad de Dusk en su búsqueda de la mítica ciudad de Frost. Después de conocer solamente tormentas de nieve, frío y raciones de comida en disminución, la gente y los edificios de Frost parecen un sueño… que podría convertirse en una pesadilla.
Personalmente, siento floja la historia. Siendo el primer libro en un trilogía, tal vez los personajes y la historia tienen más profundidad en los siguientes libros,

This book had me on the edge of my seat. My anxiety was through the roof from beginning to end with what this girl has to do and still has to do. I couldn't put this book down and am now anxious to read book 2!

Before I was even a third of the way through I had already added the next two books in the series to my Kindle wishlist. By the time I was finished, I was awfully glad that I did. Not only did it prove to be a good and quick read, but the story definitely has a lot more left to be told. I look forward to seeing what comes next for Ember and her companions (names left out because spoilers are bad) and if the actions from this book end up having repercussions in the next two.

A great book meant for a younger audience, very quick and easy read. Found myself fully immersed in the story so great job to the author. I do have a few qualms, but nevertheless still a good 4.5 read.

I enjoyed this book… it was an easy read. Had only like 2 errors in the whole book. I love when I can read a book and not have to keep correcting errors in my head lol so that was a plus. Youth friendly.. only one curse word in the whole book. It is a series though and I’m not sure if I missed it when I started reading it but this is a part of a trilogy. Book 1 I believe. I’m a fan of series or books with sequels so I’m looking forward to reading the next one but I know some people are not so just throwing that out there before you get started and then get frustrated wanting to know the rest of the story lol but yeah! Good read!