Review #418
4.3/5 stars for this standalone written in first person. I bought this from a used bookstore so support your local shops!
Spoilers ahead… here are my thoughts:
I was worried right from the beginning when the heroine has anxiety because I don’t like reading characters with this struggle since it’s too similar to my reality. However the premise caught me so quickly I’m willing to try chapter 2. She’s a linguist specialist but she can’t figure out the language of a clip that was emailed to her.
And it’s not just any email. The little girl speaking in the video apparently survived being in ice and thawed out alive.
Val’s father doesn’t believe her twin brother had committed suicide, but she disagrees. Now that she’s in Greenland, at the site of his death, it’ll bring up more emotional baggage’s I’m sure.
Do we trust Wyatt?
Chapter 9 was a bit intense.
Wait, is Wyatt injecting himself with a specimen from the artic?
So Val started out believing that her brother committed suicide, so why is she asking so may questions expecting possible foul play?
What do the girl’s drawings mean? What language does she speak? Where did she come from? How did she survive?
At the halfway point I can see how this could be a thriller if it were a movie with a good spooky soundtrack, but so far I’m just “waiting” for something big to happen.
Oooh chapter 31 was excellent.
I’m happy with the ending and read this one faster than I had expected but wanted a little more closure and wrap up at the end. It’d make a good psychological thriller movie.