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lee_nuhh's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Got this as a "blind date with a book." It started off a little slow, but ramped up on the suspense and sci fi feeling eventually. The last ~50 pages had me ravenously reading to find out what Sigrid was after and how the mysteries would unfold. An unexpected story that I ended up enjoying!
themysterymaven's review against another edition
3.0
3.5
The mix of daylight and night always at an odd balance, the temperatures you can never really fathom, the animals and people who have carved out an existence, and the enormity of the still vast unknown…this is the draw and fascination of our polar regions. This book is an escape into these less-travelled landscapes…a chance to glimpse the great expanse of Greenland, and I really loved it!
A much-lauded linguist is invited to a small scientific research center set on an isolated Greenlandic island, the body of a young girl encased in ice recently extracted from the great glacial plains…and she’s alive! Her language is unlike anything ever studied, and her immense fear and desperation add an uknown urgency to the already numerous mysteries surrounding her existence.
As someone who is enthralled by our Arctic regions, I couldn’t help but get wrapped up into this (slightly) sci-fi suspense story that really presents an over-arching theme on the plight of our planet and how climate change is it’s own ticking clock. I loved being transported into the frozen tundra-scape, and I spent a lot of extra time just researching some of the Greenlandic languages so I could hear them spoken aloud, delving into true instances of people frozen alive, and the history of the indigenous people.
So, I feel like this very fictional tale can open your eyes to learning a lot of factual pieces if you let it. There’s bits of thriller and other mysteries added into the plot, along with a curious cast of characters befitting of who you imagine chooses to work in such a solitary environment…hints of “The Thing” crew kind of hit me throughtout my reading. I found some of the writing a bit choppy and most of the characters maybe a touch too two-dimensional and not wholly fleshed out. But overall, the escapism is enjoyable!
The mix of daylight and night always at an odd balance, the temperatures you can never really fathom, the animals and people who have carved out an existence, and the enormity of the still vast unknown…this is the draw and fascination of our polar regions. This book is an escape into these less-travelled landscapes…a chance to glimpse the great expanse of Greenland, and I really loved it!
A much-lauded linguist is invited to a small scientific research center set on an isolated Greenlandic island, the body of a young girl encased in ice recently extracted from the great glacial plains…and she’s alive! Her language is unlike anything ever studied, and her immense fear and desperation add an uknown urgency to the already numerous mysteries surrounding her existence.
As someone who is enthralled by our Arctic regions, I couldn’t help but get wrapped up into this (slightly) sci-fi suspense story that really presents an over-arching theme on the plight of our planet and how climate change is it’s own ticking clock. I loved being transported into the frozen tundra-scape, and I spent a lot of extra time just researching some of the Greenlandic languages so I could hear them spoken aloud, delving into true instances of people frozen alive, and the history of the indigenous people.
So, I feel like this very fictional tale can open your eyes to learning a lot of factual pieces if you let it. There’s bits of thriller and other mysteries added into the plot, along with a curious cast of characters befitting of who you imagine chooses to work in such a solitary environment…hints of “The Thing” crew kind of hit me throughtout my reading. I found some of the writing a bit choppy and most of the characters maybe a touch too two-dimensional and not wholly fleshed out. But overall, the escapism is enjoyable!
sfox26's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
bsmith27's review against another edition
3.0
This was tough to get into. A woman with fairly severe anxiety goes to Antarctica. Her brother died at the research center after freezing to death. His mentor asks her to come because she is a language expert and he claims to have found a girl frozen in the ice who unfroze alive. She was able to do this because of an eel. The mentor killed her brother and know wants to kill her. The woman escapes and comes back to America with the girl and lives her with her. More than slightly unbelievable.
ronjaslibrary's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
gbwilliams's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
timgrubbs's review against another edition
3.0
A girl is rescued from the ice…and she’s speaking an unknown language…
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik is an eco-conscious thriller of sorts…that tries to be a lot of things at once…
Val is a linguist who has never left Massachusetts and now finds herself in Greenland where a climate researcher there claims to have thawed a young girl from a glacier but they don’t know what she’s saying.
Of course, there’s a hitch, as Valnonly knows the researcher due to her brother previously working at the same station before disappearing on the ice six months ago…
As Val starts to communicate with the girl and odd “ice winds” strike around the world, she starts to realize that the young girl…Sigrid…may have been in the ice for a while…and not simply a local that got serperated from another group…
This is equal parts mystery thriller, eco thriller, and weird translation mystery as we learn more about the secret climate work, the head and his involvement in the brother’s passing, and what they can do the help Sigrid..
It was an interesting book (especially when Val and Sigrid are trying to understand eachother), but I felt it ended abruptly and still left some unanswered questions…
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik is an eco-conscious thriller of sorts…that tries to be a lot of things at once…
Val is a linguist who has never left Massachusetts and now finds herself in Greenland where a climate researcher there claims to have thawed a young girl from a glacier but they don’t know what she’s saying.
Of course, there’s a hitch, as Valnonly knows the researcher due to her brother previously working at the same station before disappearing on the ice six months ago…
As Val starts to communicate with the girl and odd “ice winds” strike around the world, she starts to realize that the young girl…Sigrid…may have been in the ice for a while…and not simply a local that got serperated from another group…
This is equal parts mystery thriller, eco thriller, and weird translation mystery as we learn more about the secret climate work, the head and his involvement in the brother’s passing, and what they can do the help Sigrid..
It was an interesting book (especially when Val and Sigrid are trying to understand eachother), but I felt it ended abruptly and still left some unanswered questions…
ebulla's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
alexandriam_rose's review against another edition
3.0
received from Goodreads giveaway :)
4.5 - This book is a true thriller, with a survival twist, and a locked room/dangerous inside and outside element. Definitely, a page-turner, leaving you wanting to discover what's really going on as well as having a countdown related to the weather in the Arctic circle and the girl who has seemingly thawed from the ice. It is very atmospheric, with all the descriptions of the ice, snow, and harsh landscape as well as being very tense and claustrophobic, especially between the characters essentially trapped in the Arctic. I do think you have to suspend a little disbelief for the overall plot and how Val gets pulled into the whole thing, maybe it is a little sci-fi, but it does feel based in reality in terms of the historical and language aspects.
4.5 - This book is a true thriller, with a survival twist, and a locked room/dangerous inside and outside element. Definitely, a page-turner, leaving you wanting to discover what's really going on as well as having a countdown related to the weather in the Arctic circle and the girl who has seemingly thawed from the ice. It is very atmospheric, with all the descriptions of the ice, snow, and harsh landscape as well as being very tense and claustrophobic, especially between the characters essentially trapped in the Arctic. I do think you have to suspend a little disbelief for the overall plot and how Val gets pulled into the whole thing, maybe it is a little sci-fi, but it does feel based in reality in terms of the historical and language aspects.