Girl in Ice

Ferencik, Erica. Girl in Ice. New York: Scout Press 2022. Print.

First Sentences:

Seeing the name "Wyatt Speeks" in my inbox hit me like a physical blow. Everything rushed back: the devastating phone call, the disbelief, the image of my brother's frozen body in the Arctic wasteland.


Description:

I'm a big fan of intriguing storylines in novels and Erica Ferecik's Girl in Ice, comes through with just such a page-turning concept. 

Scientists in northern Greenland have discovered a young girl frozen in an icy crevasse, decide to cut her body out of the solid ice, and bring the ice block with her inside back to their outpost. They then slowly melt the ice cube surrounding her, shock her heart, and somehow miraculously revive her.

She is now somehow alive, living in the outpost, and actually speaking, although in an unknown language.

Enter the plea emailed to narrator/linguist Val Chesterfield to travel to the far north and attempt to communicate with the child. Val, while excited by such a unique challenge, is also hesitant. It is at this same Greenland outpost and under the same lead scientist that her twin brother worked until recently when he unexpectedly committed suicide.

Of course, Val takes on the challenge although she hates travel and is highly suspicious about the people and conditions to be found at the station. But attempting to communicate with this child is too much a temptation, so off she goes.

To find out what happens next, well, you'll just have to read for yourself. To say more on my part would ruin the anticipation, process, successes and failures Val finds in Greenland working with the child and the scientists. Suffice to say, if this brief plot outline, interests you, you won't be disappointed by the developments and the story unfolds to its unexpected, yet highly satisfactory conclusion.

  

Happy reading. 

 

Fred

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