I wasn't sure what to make of the new title... it sounded cool enough, it's just that I'm a creature of symmetry, and I liked the the idea of more "...[x-coloured] Ice" theme that J V Jones had going.

I take the point of someone who previously wrote that there are only so many coloured ices she can come up with, but still... I guess it's all because, previously, it was only meant to be a trilogy, right? So, I guess once it became obvious that the books were going to take longer than three editions, JVJ had to come up with more titles!

Am I sad for still wanting Ash and Raif to - somehow - get together? Going from the Book of Words, the protagonist never got the girl, in the end... I hope that Raif finds a happier ending in this story .

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Something clever will go here eventually, simple as that.

how about 'endlords' or 'days darker than nights'?

i'm new here btw. no one else took a swing @ the name. am i being to foward?

I think "Watcher of the dead" is a perfect name for book IV.
To me, it sounds like Raif has come to grips with what he was put in this world to accomplish. He doesn't have to like it, but as they say in this world....'it is what it is'.

As for book V and, if applicable, book VI, perhaps "Days Darker than Night" might be an appropriate name for one of them, who knows. After reading several of JV's postings and a few interviews, I'd surmise that it's too far out in the future to even begin considering. JV's MO seems to be that she sets up the people, places and things, with incredible detail, and then, as she says, "let the story write itself".

I'm about 245 pages into A Sword from Red Ice and can't put the thing down. I'm not a fast reader by any means, but the only books I recall reading at the pace I'm going through Red Ice, were the Barbed Coil and maybe Deception Point (Dan Brown). As I recall, State of Fear (Michael Chrichton), was tough to put down, also.