Kate North has accepted the unique and exciting opportunity to be a winter replacement doctor for a thirteen member team station based in unforgiving Antarctica.
Kate was an excellent AampE accident amp emergency doctor but she encountered a horrific personal tragedy which included getting addicted to pain killers and now she only wants to gets a fresh start with her life and this sounds as if would be the perfect place to begin a new journey to free herself of all her demons.
Unfortunately, Kate really wasn't prepared for the extreme and relentless, brutal conditions that her new home will hold for the next year and there will not be another relief plane for another six months no matter what happens on the base even death.
When Kate first arrived she was disappointed with the greeting she received, while she didn't expect a celebration, she never expected to be snubbed by several members who barely acknowledged her including her new boss.
Kate wonders if she'll be able to overcome the difficulties that will present themselves and begins thinking she may have made a huge mistake.
What The Heck Is She Doing in "No Man's Land!"
Unbeknownst to Kate there are many secrets simmering within the team just waiting for someone to dish them out and expose information that could bring about some serious repercussions and Kate just can't seem to leave well enough alone.
There will be several, long months of total darkness to come and while Kate has get another secret crippling,fear of the dark, she will discover that some of the secrets others are hiding could possibly bring about some seriously, dangerous situations and even possible, suspicious deaths, and if Kate doesn't stop her investigating and invasive snooping, she might find herself very much, alone in the dark while thinking she is safe from any predators, yet an unscrupulous and coldblooded killer is only steps away watching Kate's every move in " The Dark"".
What a fantastic story! This is definitely my kind of book, while I'm partial to locked room mysteries I just crave dark, suspenseful stories based in the lonely cold or someone being isolated in a snowbound or frigid environment so this book checked off all the buttons for me and I wasn't disappointed.
Exceptional writing pertaining to descriptions of the brutal, isolated conditions and also the great beauty that Antarctica holds for the viewer and somehow translates over to the reader.
I enjoyed all the characters good or bad and I loved the deeply flawed Kate with all her personal and medical problems.
Kate was a good person who was impulsive at times leading to some very poor decision making which caused strife among some of the team members
disrupting the presumed harmony.
Kate's addictions and trying to hide her sins made her a vulnerable, realistic and relatable character even when one doesn't want to think about health care professionals doing drugs or having addictions, sadly many do because they are human and capable of making many unfortunate errors as well as any other person but they need to be held to higher standards because the health professionals are holding the safety and the lives of others in their hands and they should be held accountable if they drink alcohol or use drugs to get high in any way while in their workplace.
I just didn't want this story to end since I was so caught up in the mystery and drama and the frigid, bleak environment.
I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of Emma Haughton's books and I highly recommend "The Dark" to any reader who enjoys a good story along with a frigid locked room mystery!
I want to thank the publisher "Mobius Books"/ Hodder amp Stoughton" and Netgalley for this terrific and fun story and any thoughts and opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone!
I have give this enjoyable book a rating ofCLAUSTROPHOBIC AND FREEZING STARS!! I read this in the middle of the winter last year which made it an outstanding reading experience.
It was so fun wrapping up in a blanket in the living room in the dark, being protected from the cold outside while reading this mystery with a brutal Antarctic setting.
And Im not even a bookandblanket type of reader, If you like reading for escapism, I can hardly imagine a more suitable novel, It really conveyed what it would be like to be stationed in Antarctica, and Im so thankful that I never have been and never will be.
That a killer could be one of the researchers living among obviously ratcheted up the intensity even further.
There are a lot of characters at the research station and its tough to keep track of them all, especially in the first half, so print or screenshot this as an aid:
Drewnice midwestern American guy amp Kates ally
Sandinebitch boss, golfer
Arkady ArkRussian, expressive, loud
AlexIrish, young, handsome, grumpy, distant, everybody blames him for JeanLucs death
Rajivcook, anal
Sonyablack Canadian knitting meteorologist
LuukDutch electrician, arrogant, stoner
CaroKiwi plumber, butch but straight, Kates second friend
AliceScottish scientist, feminine lesbian
TomGerman, deadpan, peripheral, gay
RobAustralian of Chinese descent.
Stoner sidekick to Luuk.
ArneLates Icelandic mechanic, selfassured,
Der Klappentext zu "The Dark" klang sehr interessant und ich war sehr gespannt was mich in der Antarktis begleitet.
Zu Beginn begleiten wir die Ärztin Kate wie sie ihren Job auf der Station in der Antarktis übernimmt und alles erst einmal kennenlernen muss.
Dies fand ich zunächst sehr interessant, da man hier viel über das Leben auf einer Station in der Antarktis lernt.
Auch über Kate lernt man viel, die ebenfalls mit Problemen und ihrer Vergangenheit zu kämpfen hat, Mit Der Zeit haben sich die Beschreibungen dann aber doch etwas gezogen und die Handlung kam nicht so richtig voran.
Erst in der zweiten Hälfte passiert dann mehr und es wird auch spannender, Das Ende ging mir dann ein wenig zu schnell und das Buch war dann auch ein bisschen zu plötzlich beendet.
Die Charaktere lernt man ganz gut kennen, aber Sympathien hatte ich eher für wenige, Einige Personen habe ich auch bis zum Ende durcheinander gebracht, Kate ist ebenfalls ein wenig speziell und ich mochte ihre Art nicht immer,
Das Setting war für mich absolut gelungen, Die Autorin beschreibt die Station und die eisigen Landschaften mit sehr vielen Details und so manchmal konnte man das beklemmende Gefühl der Charaktere gut nachempfinden.
Insgesamt war das Buch für mich eine gute Unterhaltung, die leider die eine oder andere Länge hat.
Natures Locked Room
Id been waiting for this, as an avid reader and Antarctaphile , and it was an enjoyable read.
Kate who has a Back Story is sent into the team of overwinterers due to the tragic death of the previous doctor.
The international crew are by turns welcoming and standoffish, and the dynamics become clear as the story progresses.
Then: theres a death. Is everything as it seems Who carries a secret At this stage it may be easier to determine who doesnt have a secret.
Antarctica is the ultimate locked room challenge possibly beaten by the Arctic with the added danger of polar bears.
There is nowhere to go, not if you value your peripheral circulation, or indeed, your circulation full stop.
The author does a great job of presenting the environment as just as big a threat as the perpetrator inside.
Theres not much to describe with just white, especially in the depths of an polar winter, but the scenery, isolation, and physical/psychological effects on the winterers was well worded.
However, I have to admit that the only thing that gave me goosebumps was the referral several times in the story to a New Zealand cattle ranch.
Dairy farm.
Its a dairy farm, .
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