From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive.
Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland’s barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolable—and disbelieving. She suspects foul play.
When Wyatt, Andy’s fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibility—a young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands—Val is his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North and meet this girl, try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girl’s speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brother’s death.
The moment she steps off the plane, her fear threatens to overwhelm her. The landscape is fierce, and Wyatt, brilliant but difficult, is an enigma. But the girl is special, and Val’s connection with her is profound. Only something is terribly wrong; the child is sick, maybe dying, and the key to saving her lies in discovering the truth about Wyatt’s research. Can his data be trusted? And does it have anything to do with how and why Val’s brother died? With time running out, Val embarks on an incredible frozen odyssey—led by the unlikeliest of guides—to rescue the new family she has found in the most unexpected of places.
The Review
GIRL IN ICE
By Erica Ferencik
I imagine the day the author found out she was going to write about this was as much of a surprise to her as anything.
Tricked up at times with the small details. And there’s a lot. I believe the author was simply laden with the details and it bogged the writing down.
While reading a thriller or mystery your mind spends most of its time trying to sift through the information and come to a conclusion as to what details are important to the case and which words and details are just there to heighten the experience.
This book had too many things going on at once and the execution was lacking.
The world is rich, it’s extremely immersive and atmospheric. The plot is structured around a very unbelievable event and I’m still not convinced it fully answered every question it proposed.
Written at a distance with rigid characters, combined with the unforgiving setting left little to warm up to. And I settled at ⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’ve read this one, let’s chat!
What did you think about it?
Thanks to Scout Press for sending me an advanced copy!
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