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Girl In Ice
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive. Valerie Val Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenlands barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolableand disbelieving. She suspects foul play. When Wyatt, Andys fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibilitya young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understandsVal is his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North and meet this girl, try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girls speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brothers death. The moment she steps off the plane, her fear threatens to overwhelm her. The landscape is fierce, and Wyatt, brilliant but difficult, is an enigma. But the girl is special, and Vals connection with her is profound. Only something is terribly wrong; the child is sick, maybe dying, and the key to saving her lies in discovering the truth about Wyatts research. Can his data be trusted? And does it have anything to do with how and why Vals brother died? With time running out, Val embarks on an incredible frozen odysseyled by the unlikeliest of guidesto rescue the new family she has found in the most unexpected of places.
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wojo
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Val is the narrator of the book . She has come to Greenland, where her brother died, to learn how to communicate with a girl who had been frozen and successfully thawed and revitalized. Val has a difficult time with language the girl speaks, it is not what she expects it to be, it is far older. The writing is good, the other characters believable. Each character has struggled with death. I felt the cold of Greenland as I read. I enjoyed it

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wojo
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik

Just started this today & it reminds me of an 80‘s movie with Timothy Hutton & John Lone, Iceman. A girl is found frozen in ice in Greenland. She thaws out. So far it‘s quite good.

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MittenGirlPeach
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Ahhhhh, my #WinterWonderlandSwap! We had company for a long New Year‘s weekend, which was fabulous, but they‘re gone now & we‘re finally getting back to normal. I always get a little melancholy after the holidays, so it was lovely to open this today. You found a velvet headband! The books are perfect, and we too love that brand of K Cups—and I haven‘t had the winter blend before. It‘s a terrific choice! Thanks so much, @Kshakal !

Chrissyreadit 🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍 1y
TheBookHippie 💙❄️☃️❄️💙 1y
Kshakal I am so happy you enjoyed everything!! 🤓 1y
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Shievad
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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I enjoyed the combo of linguistics, anthropology, environmental science, and suspense/thriller. But I felt some character traits and relationships revealed at the end did not have their foundation laid through out the book. Spoiler in the comments.

Shievad I didn‘t like how Jean‘s whole motivation for going along with several murders was that she loved Wyatt and didn‘t want him to leave her. That is an overused and out dated trope. Also, I didn‘t get a sense that Jean even cared for Wyatt like that through out the book. It just seemed thrown in at the end. 1y
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parasolofdoom
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Happy Book Lovers day! Perfect lunch spot ☀️

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HeatherBlue
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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My buddy keeping me company while I read this morning 🖤🐾
#catsoflitsy

RaeLovesToRead Gorgeous kitty! 🥰🥰🥰 2y
LiseWorks He looks so much like my half siamese cat I had named Metichi. 2y
HeatherBlue @RaeLovesToRead thank you!! 😽 2y
Leftcoastzen 👏😻 2y
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SW-T
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Mehso-so

Still working on a couple things, and while the tagged wasn‘t bad, it was hard to suspend belief and simply enjoy the plot. Slow pace didn‘t help. We have a stereotypical mad scientist, his enigmatic assistant, the divers, and our linguist, who‘s troubled, lonely, and grieving. The secret to why the frozen girl revived was hard to believe and the ending wasn‘t the strongest. Interesting concept though.

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Kempfme
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
Mehso-so

A linguist is sent to Greenland to help translate a girl that was thawed from a block of ice, the same place that her twin brother dead under interesting circumstances.
It was a great idea, and I could not stop reading, but the plot was slow and the story line of why the brother died was just brushed aside and the reasoning behind the girl coming back to life after being frozen was so implausible.

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SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime
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Girl In Ice is my second Erica Ferencik book and so far I'm 2/2 in absolutely loving them. The author drops the reader into an uncomfortable and somewhat crazy environment. I felt like I was truly in the icy weather of Greenland when reading this book. The ending of this book was an unputdownable, anxiety inducing, thrill ride. I have an absolute blast with these books, a perfect mix of mostly credibility with a dash of magical realism.

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readswellwithothers
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I was thinking about this book even when pesky life things (job, sleep) kept me from reading it this week. I finished this morning and I feel like I got off the tilt-a-whirl, what a ride! The cover blurb calls it “Original, intense, powerful, disturbing, and utterly mesmerizing,” and I couldn‘t agree more, and I‘d add “atmospheric.” I would advise anyone who wants to add this to their TBR to plan to stay up past their bedtime to read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kappadeemom I loved this book until the last parts - but I agree that is was atmospheric! 2y
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JHSiess
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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彡❄ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰❄彡

𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐈𝐧 𝐈𝐜𝐞, a science fiction & mystery tale, is elevated by 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐤's evocative descriptions & characters who battle fear & grief. A little girl is desperate to communicate what she needs to survive before time runs out. And a linguist, plagued by debilitating anxiety, must understand her before it is too late. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸: https://tinyurl.com/48zybbrm

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MeJeMiller
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I liked it but not a book that I would read many times. It has closure but somehow I‘m unsatisfied. I really want Val to work more on her mental health.

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ScrappyMags
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I said brrr, It‘s cold in here! Val is an anxiety-fighting linguist grappling with the suicide of her twin Andy, when fellow scientist Wyatt calls for help. In Greenland. He claims to have thawed a native girl from ice who speaks an unknown language. Cue the cocoa! Everything about this book is chilling - from the location, to the cold demeanor of some characters, to the biting plot. 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐲‘𝐚𝐥𝐥. ScrappyMags.com full review

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TorieStorieS
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Ferencik‘s 3rd thriller takes place primarily on a remote island off the coast of Greenland. Linguist Val arrives, despite her crippling anxiety, to learn more about the death of her twin brother months earlier & to assist in translating the mysterious language of the titular young girl the research team thawed alive from the ice. Fast-paced & not always believable, this still makes for an exciting wintry read! The environmental thread works well!

EvieBee Sounds fantastic! Do I need to start at the beginning? Silly question… 2y
TorieStorieS @EvieBee Start anywhere! These are all standalone thrillers! 2y
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Rhondareads
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Perfect weekend thriller by an excellent author.

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robinb
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Mehso-so

I‘m on the fence about this one, but it leans more to a so-so for me. Billed as a thriller/suspense, I‘d also call it science fiction as well as environmental. That‘s a mouthful. 😂 Val is an anxiety-suffering linguist who steps out of her comfort zone to journey to a remote research station in the Arctic Circle where her twin brother committed suicide five months earlier. She is tasked with trying to communicate with an 8 yo girl who has been 🔻

robinb found frozen and brought back to life. Wyatt, her brother‘s research mentor, is desperate to communicate with her and find the key to this miraculous event. I felt like this plot was trying to tackle too much and didn‘t quite solve anything. Val waffles between crippling anxiety (treated with drugs/alcohol), Wyatt is a mix of aggression/charm, and Jeanne (the cook/mechanic) has a tragic past of loss. 🔻 2y
robinb So the multiple questions are: Did Val‘s brother really commit suicide; Is Wyatt friend or foe; Is Sigrid (girl in the ice) actually from the Ice Age; How is her resurrection possible; and How to keep her alive. Plus there are moral dilemmas that left me queasy. I found this slow in places, choppy in places and the ending felt rushed. 🔻 2y
robinb And while the premise is undeniably fascinating, with the other goings-on I didn‘t feel as invested in the science issues as I should have been. The denouement also felt a bit too bizarre with not enough explanation. Parts were great but overall I just wasn‘t very invested. 3/5⭐️
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Kappadeemom
Girl In Ice | Erica Ferencik
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Here is my January book for #WickedWords by @AsYouWish 🥶 The words are:
SNOW
CHALET
BLUE
WINTER
NEW
I don‘t have anything on my TBR with those exact words;however, a blue cover with a girl frozen in ice is pretty thematic 😂 She is found somewhere in the Artic frozen alive and when she thaws out, she speaks! No one understands her language so they find a professor to help figure it out. Diving in today while enjoying my 85 degree weather 😎

AsYouWish Sounds amazing!!!!💙😁 2y
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