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lmmountford's review
3.0
Not the best, but not the worst.
I enjoyed this book, but the ending just left me underwhelmed. There was no villain to best and the ending leaves them all waiting in the snow. Even Stone's grief is left rather uninterrupted.
I got the premises, British Soldiers suffering wounds and PTSD try to reach the north pole and get caught in the secret war between Russia and the West. Sounds thrilling right, except that's pretty much where it ends...
Just left me feeling rather underwhelmed, but still an interesting read and very educational.
I enjoyed this book, but the ending just left me underwhelmed. There was no villain to best and the ending leaves them all waiting in the snow. Even Stone's grief is left rather uninterrupted.
I got the premises, British Soldiers suffering wounds and PTSD try to reach the north pole and get caught in the secret war between Russia and the West. Sounds thrilling right, except that's pretty much where it ends...
Just left me feeling rather underwhelmed, but still an interesting read and very educational.
lucyp21's review
2.0
This book follows Nick Stone after he loses his wife and son and takes a job to get a group of wounded ex-military to the North Pole. The group stumbles into a silent, cold war going on as two nations compete for the oil underneath the North Pole.
For a thriller, this book was incredibly slow. It could have been 100 pages shorter and would have been better for it. I really liked the group's struggles with the cold and travelling to the Pole but the wider plot underneath was dull and a little confusing. I liked some parts of itlike Owl being relevant later on in the book but I would have been a lot happier if it had been removed.
I haven't read any other Nick Stone books before and this book did not make me want to read any more in the series. Whenever the book focused on Nick Stone as a character, and him dealing with the grief of who he had lost, it was definitely better but at other times it felt like Nick was just a stand-in character to observe the group and what was going on.
I was bored and that isn't why you read thrillers. 2 stars!
For a thriller, this book was incredibly slow. It could have been 100 pages shorter and would have been better for it. I really liked the group's struggles with the cold and travelling to the Pole but the wider plot underneath was dull and a little confusing. I liked some parts of it
I haven't read any other Nick Stone books before and this book did not make me want to read any more in the series. Whenever the book focused on Nick Stone as a character, and him dealing with the grief of who he had lost, it was definitely better but at other times it felt like Nick was just a stand-in character to observe the group and what was going on.
I was bored and that isn't why you read thrillers. 2 stars!
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