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LOVE LOVE LOVE that cover and the title is a perfect fit, or is it the other way around?
I wonder which came first, the title or the cover?
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MY REVIEW
First off, I would like to thank Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review Girl In Ice by Erica Ferencik. It blew me away. I loved everything about it, from the title, to the cover, to the story inside.
The Girl In Ice was thawed out by the research team studying climate change on an island off the coast of Greenland. The Arctic Circle…I can’t imagine being there at any time, let alone when danger lurks. Where will it come from? I figured it out pretty quick, but I could not be certain. Didn’t matter anyway. The writing kept me glued to the pages.
Valerie ‘Val’ Chesterfield was already somewhat acquainted with the research being carried out. Her brother, Andy, had been a part of it…until he was found outside, frozen. Well, that makes me very suspicious. When the Girl In Ice was found and no one could understand her, Val, being a linguist who specialized in Nordic languages, was called in to help. She didn’t believe the story about her brother, so now she can find out for herself what really happened.
The Girl In Ice is desperately trying to communicate with them.
I love when an author can include things that interest me, like climate change. It makes the story more believable, except for the girl in the ice coming to life. I don’t think I can believe that could happen, but hey, there are those that believe in cryogenics, so…….
I watched Val grow, change, develop into an strong, independent, loyal person that has yet to find her place in the world, but happy to be in it.
The world building was so realistically created that I almost believed I could feel the cold, hear the snow squeaking under my feet, and it made me wonder…about what research Erica Ferencik did. Her detailed descriptions allowed her to paint so vividly with words an environment so harsh, otherworldly…and I was lost in it.
A sense of danger arose early and hung on every page. I had a feeling about some things that come to pass, but Erica Ferencik supplied plenty of book surprises to keep me on my toes. I ignored everything around me, except coffee and restroom breaks. I read hundreds of books a year, so that is not any easy thing to do.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Girl In Ice by Erica Ferencik.
GOODREADS BLURB
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.
ABOUT ERICA FERENCIK
Oprah chose Erica Ferencik’s debut novel, The River at Night as a #1 Pick, calling the book “the page-turning novel you’ve been waiting for, a heart-pounding debut.” Entertainment Weekly named it a “Must Read,” and calls the novel “harrowing…a visceral, white knuckle rush.” Miramax has recently optioned the novel for a film.
Her new novel, Into the Jungle, one woman’s terrifying journey of survival in the Bolivian Amazon, will be released on May 28, 2019. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, calling it: “[A] ferocious fever dream of a thriller…Ferencik delivers an alternately terrifying and exhilarating tale.” Her work has appeared in Salon and The Boston Globe, as well as on National Public Radio.
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