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Stranded
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I think I picked this up on sale at Kobo. It promised an Arctic location, and a mystery. I'm a sucker for books set in cold places for some reason.
The initial setup is promising, sorta. There's a storm. Then there are multiple equipment failures. And ice that is much thicker than it should be, and heavy enough that it finally freezes the ship in place. (The ship is supposed to be re-supplying an oil rig up near Alaska.)
Noah, the protagonist, has had the misfortune to get on the bad side of the captain of the ship, who is also his father-in-law. (There's a long side-story about his wife and little girl, and why the captain hates Noah so.) The crew starts getting sick/debilitated, and no one knows why. They're frozen in the ice, they can't call for rescue, their fuel/food/water are limited.
But wait! There's something on the horizon! Maybe it's the oil rig they were trying to get to??? And the more able-bodied of the crew decide It's A Good Idea To Go See. Never mind that it's -40F with wind chill and that they a) don't have really good survival equipment and b) have no idea how far away their destination is and c) they don't know if there's anything there for them when they arrive. But it would be a fairly boring (and unhappy) book if all we could do is sit and wait for them to die of cold/starvation/sickness.
They find something they didn't expect. And they found an oil rig. And then everyone lost their minds and (view spoiler)
I wasn't crazy about the ending, and there are questions left unanswered. But it was ok to skim along through, and to skim over the parts I didn't like so much.
2.5 stars rounded up to 3.
The initial setup is promising, sorta. There's a storm. Then there are multiple equipment failures. And ice that is much thicker than it should be, and heavy enough that it finally freezes the ship in place. (The ship is supposed to be re-supplying an oil rig up near Alaska.)
Noah, the protagonist, has had the misfortune to get on the bad side of the captain of the ship, who is also his father-in-law. (There's a long side-story about his wife and little girl, and why the captain hates Noah so.) The crew starts getting sick/debilitated, and no one knows why. They're frozen in the ice, they can't call for rescue, their fuel/food/water are limited.
But wait! There's something on the horizon! Maybe it's the oil rig they were trying to get to??? And the more able-bodied of the crew decide It's A Good Idea To Go See. Never mind that it's -40F with wind chill and that they a) don't have really good survival equipment and b) have no idea how far away their destination is and c) they don't know if there's anything there for them when they arrive. But it would be a fairly boring (and unhappy) book if all we could do is sit and wait for them to die of cold/starvation/sickness.
They find something they didn't expect. And they found an oil rig. And then everyone lost their minds and (view spoiler)
I wasn't crazy about the ending, and there are questions left unanswered. But it was ok to skim along through, and to skim over the parts I didn't like so much.
2.5 stars rounded up to 3.
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