A review by hammock_and_read
A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson

4.0

I started this off with a big giant oh no- with the viking in NA as it has a super bad racist past but it didn not super go there but that was a bit of a turn off for me. And now a second book in a row that for the second book in the series if high level of writing dropped off. It was filled with too much science in detail of daily science life-more to do samples ect (and I’m a scientist so I’m guessing that is going to be a huge turn off for most) and she didn't do a good job of the setting. We almost get a lecturer on climate change- ice sheets-polar bear. It was too preachy for my liking. The Arctic is beautiful and I feel like that was missing compared to MT in book one.
I enjoyed that we got a bit into the mystery that is conuniting through the series. This one again has some action-twists and turns - mysteries of it all. The flow is not the best either, and some of Alex's get away moves are hard to believe as it get a too much. Don’t get me wrong I will keep reading the series, it just wasn’t as good as book one- even with archaeologists in it. And made me very glad I don't work in the treasure hunter and/or billionaire collector area for my work.

3.5 stars