Girl In Ice by Erica Ferencik (2022) Here's one of the main reasons we started this blog in the first place......letting folks know about hidden gems in cinema and books, givin' out the scoop on movies and novels that might've slipped under the pop culture radar......
Thrilled to report we found a real keeper here, one hell of a compelling read that combines so many different genres, we lost track of them all......
There's mystery here.....close to believable science fiction......heartbreaking drama.......suspense.....unbearably dangerous action-adventure..... harrowing, almost otherworldly landscapes.......dramatic tension waiting to explode.....and all of wrapped up in the immediate burning issue of what's happening to our planet and what can be done about it.
Quite a package and it kept us glued to the pages all night long.
First, the strangest of events fall upon Val Chesterfield, a lonely linguistics academic who's still mourning the suicide death of her twin brother Andy, a fiercely committed climate scientist. He was found frozen to death by his fellow scientist Wyatt in their forbiddingly remote Greenland experimental lab.
And now Wyatt stuns Val with an incredible mission - asking her to trek up to the lab to uncover the mysteries behind an 8 year old girl whom Wyatt has actually thawed out alive after finding her body deep inside a glacier......entombed in ice for.....who knows? And how? And why?
There's no telling how long the little girl was preserved in the ice - she speaks in an undecipherable language that Wyatt hopes Val can decode and translate.......because she's slowly dying from some unknowable ailment and unable to communicate why or what would cure her.
The timid reclusive Val throws all caution to the wind and travels to the lethally snow and ice covered lab, hoping, as she delves into the astounding enigmas of the unfrozen child, to also uncover the mystery of her brother's death. This all leads to a climax as thrilling and hair-raising as anything you might see in a multiplex action movie.
Intrigued yet? We were, without a doubt. And this book dazzled us on multiple levels......with its vividly drawn characters and its realistic, spectacular renderings of the artic environment.
BQ says seek this one out wherever you can lay hands on it, cause it's a most definite 5 star (*****) FIND OF FINDS. Chill out with one of this year's best thrillers.
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