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Stranded
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew, which does little to ease their growing distrust of him. Dismissing Noah's warnings of worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears, revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may not be their destination. Noah leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Reggie
Reggie
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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A supply ship headed to an oil rig in the middle of nowhere in the Arctic, on it‘s way, goes through a hellacious storm and gets enveloped in a fog only to find out it‘s stranded in ice. The first half of this book gives you sea legs but the second half takes a turn into a mix of some John Carpenter‘s movies with a dash of Blake Crouch novel. The writing was decent. I enjoyed it.

Cathythoughts 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻another great review 7y
Bookzombie If I hadn‘t already stacked this, I would have after your review. 🙂 7y
Reviewsbylola Sounds like a good premise and an absolutely horrible situation in real life. 😆😬 7y
Reggie @Cathythoughys @Bookzombie Thanks!!! @Reviewsbylola Yeah, there‘s a part where he talks about it being 40 below zero outside and how the tears from his eyes are freezing on his eyelashes and how your cornea can get frost bitten. That‘s them just stepping outside the boat!!! It starts off with them during a storm and it is intense. 7y
Reviewsbylola That is intense! 7y
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BookDude
BookDude
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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I love books that refuse to be confined to one genre. Stranded is just such a book.
The Arctic Promise is stranded in ice, and the crew must do everything it can to survive. But in addition to the brutal weather conditions, described beautifully by Macleod, the crew must contend with illness, long-festering hatred, and possibly hallucinations. I can't write much more without spoiling the story. The 2nd half is a mind-bending thriller.

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StaceyKondla
StaceyKondla
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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Mehso-so

I thoroughly enjoyed the cold weather setting and the danger factor of the ice. The writing is excellent. Bracken MacLeod can paint pictures with his exposition and builds interesting characters, but overall the story was a super slow burn and never got really scary. It lost me a bit at the end and I have too many questions left unanswered. I wanted to love it, but it was just ok.

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StaceyKondla
StaceyKondla
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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Squeezing in some reading with a giant chai tea latte before the rest of my book club arrives for our monthly brunch and book swap 😁

Laalaleighh My favorite kind of latte. 7y
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StaceyKondla
StaceyKondla
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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Came home to some lovely book mail ❤️

kspenmoll Love Charles Finch! 7y
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BekahB
BekahB
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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I've had a busy weekend so I haven't had time to relax with a mug of coffee and a book in the morning like usual. With nothing planned for the day, I'm able to get back to my usual morning routine! I'm starting Stranded. I love horror set in isolated, freezing locations! 😁

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SGJ
SGJ
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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Nice. I learned FUBAR from, if memory halfway serves, either Tango or Cash. And now MacLeod is teaching me this.

Ekkross I say this at work ALL. THE. TIME. Because let's be real, the problem is always in the chair. 8y
Karkar The one I heard for this is IEBKAC. Issue Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. 8y
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GameAndRead
GameAndRead
Stranded: A Novel | Bracken MacLeod
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It's not a happy story and you won't find any jokes, but this is a gripping stop that will scratch your Deadliest Catch itch. The twist was especially twisty and it's got a nice touch of haunting otherworldliness, and there's definitely no bow wrapping up the book at the end. Read it and stay far away from icy oceans!

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