Every word and every look is pure something whether it makes sense or not—basic knowledge of chemistry does not help—and the sex scenes are oh so clichéd as they can be. Heaven forbid a woman be comfortable with male nudity even if she'd grown up in the midst of shapeshifters who are always losing their clothes. At this point I’m just glad I didn’t go to medical school because who knows what I would have to say about the heart surgery scene.Instead of focusing on Brenna’s very real and raw trauma this book is about Judd’s mental block that keeps them both unhappy. Fixing him fixes them both. Magically. The problem is that addressing his mental hindrance becomes repetitive soon and instead of balancing it with the slow progress Brenna should be making it’s intercepted with a whodunnit mystery. It’s safe to say I didn’t like the book and came very close to hating it, but despite all its flaws, Caressed by Ice does have Ghost’s first official appearance, which is enough to keep me reading on.P.S. Why must the man always be stronger and more capable than the woman? Even if the woman is a werewolf naturally stronger than a human or a Psy?