When you're really enjoying a book, you fly through it, sometimes at one sitting. It might've been OK in a short book, but for a long one it was not pleasant. It detracted from the book, from the intensity and tension, the terror of dying out on the ice, made the characters sound a bit demented and made me cringe so many times, almost causing me to stop the book.
The scientific subject and location, intelligent plot and writing, belied the stuffed up nose fluffy irritating sing-song narrator's style (is she recovering from a cold?).
For me this narration and this book did not match. Whiteout was chosen for the similar premise and reviews sounded so good, but half way through the book, I knew it would be my own tale of survival to get to the end. Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard and Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith are my favourite "survival" novels containing a romance.
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