Immerse In Armadilha Crafted By Kitty Sewell Presented In EPub

don't know if words can describe how much I love this novel, Dafydd's character is gorgeously flawed and Sheila Hailey is the ultimate bitch, The flashbacks to the Canadian wilderness were insightful and I really enjoyed when the past met the present, In het begin verloopt het verhaal nogal traag, maar dat wordt ruimschoots goedgemaakt door alle informatie en gebeurtenissen uit het tweede deel,
Dafydd Woodruff, een arts, is in de jaren negentig voor een jaar naar Moose Creek, in Canada, gekomen, om daar zijn beroep uit te oefenen, op de vlucht voor een gebeurtenis uit zijn verleden.

Hijen de lezerleert al gauw de inwoners van het stadje kennen, die allemaal wel hun eigen speciale karakter hebben,
Het verhaal springt dan over en weer van deze tijd naar, als Dafydd getrouwd is met Isabel, en ze al heel lang proberen om kinderen te krijgen, zonder succes.

Op een dag krijgt Dafydd een brief van een meisje uit Moose Creek, Miranda, die beweert dat ze zijn dochter is en ook nog een tweelingbroer heeft, Mark.
Dafydd kan dit niet geloven, omdat hij nooit gemeenschap heeft gehad met Sheila, hun moeder, Maar als na een DNA test blijkt dat hij toch de vader van de kinderen is, is hij verbijsterd, En zijn huwelijk is ondertussen in een neergaande spiraal geraakt, . .
Dafydd besluit af te reizen naar Moose Creek, om met eigen ogen de kinderen te zien en uitleg te vragen aan Sheila, Sheila is echter zeer bot tegen hem, en beweert dat hij haar eens in een dronken bui verkracht heeft, met de zwangerschap als gevolg,
We komen ook nog te weten dat Dafydd tijdens zijn eerste verblijf, eens een tocht gemaakt heeft naar het Hoge Noorden, en daar verliefd geworden was op een Inuït meisje, waarmee hij een zalige nacht had doorgebracht.

In Moose Creek probeert Dafydd meer te weten te komen over zijn vermeende vaderschap, door te praten met oude bekenden, Het blijkt echter dat Sheila hem dikwijls een stap voor was, en de toch al zwijgzame bevolking manipuleert om hun mond te houden de DNA test zegt immers genoeg!
Maar uiteindelijk is er toch iemand die Dafydd de waarheid vertelt en kan het mysterie opgelost worden.


Ik had in het begin, eigenlijk het hele eerste deel, een beetje moeite om verder te lezen, Maar alleen al om de beschrijvingen van de natuur en het harde leven in dit koude land, ben ik toch doorgegaan, En ja, eens ik aan deelbegon, kon ik het boek nog moeilijk wegleggen, Eindelijk, eindelijk kwam er dan schot in de zaak, En het einde vond ik zo mooi, . . In the thriller debut from Kitty Sewell in Ice Trap, you'll be in for a cold thrill ride from both sides of the earth, For Dr. Dafydd Woodruff, it all started with a letter from a thirteenyear girl claiming she's his daughterand that she has a twin brother named Mark, That's when the flashbacks started for him, which took us to Moose Creek, a tiny outpost in Canada, where he worked over a decade ago, From the past to the present in Cardiff Wales, we get to know him better, while his marriage to Isabel comes unraveling apart, We watched Dafydd interact with his friends and colleagues at the small clinic where he worked at, especially with one coldhearted, conniving, manipulating woman named Sheila Hailey, the twins' mother who have a wicked bone to pick with him.
Later on, Dafydd return to Moose Creek to notice how things change and how wicked she was then, and learned the truth behind the secrets with a shocking conclusion.
Lots of plot twists how'd she pull off the DNA test Poor Dafydd! Welch surgeon Dafydd Woodruff cannot forgive himself after making a heartbreaking mistake during a childs operation, His life in disrepair, he relocates to Moose Creek, a desolate outpost in the Canadian subArctic, where a typical winter day hitsdegrees below zero, The towns motley inhabitants seem to embrace the harshness, the nights that last for months, because they also seek solace from past deeds, After a year in this clime, Dafydd is ready to let go of the past, He returns to Wales, resumes his practice, and eventually marries,

Fast forwardyears, A seductive Moose Creek nurse makes an outlandish claimDafydd is the father of heryearold twins and demands money for their care, Whats more, DNA tests bear out the nurses claims, though Dafydd swears to his wife he was never intimate with the nurse, Dafydds wife, however, begins to have doubts and the couples marriagealready strained by childlessnessdescends into free fall, Dafydd returns to the Canadian subArctic to learn the truth,

This is an engrossing book, I loved how the landscape became a central characterat first, cold, harsh, unbelievably desolateand later, a source of unexpected beauty and Dafydds salvation, An interesting read that took a little while to get started, Intricate plot in the completely foreign surroundings of subarctic circle Nortwest Terrirotires, Candada, This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read, I would recommend it to any one who enjoys a multilayered story with well written characters, this is Kitty Sewell's first book, I look forward to reading more from her, I was so sure I was going to stop reading this book, I didn't like the main character and there was so much 'bad luck' around him, I thought, what a moron, But I stuck it out, curious to see what happens to him, It's like watching a bad movie, its terrible, but you can't turn the channel, Once partstarted in the book and the back ground of the story had been told, the story really progressed much faster in 'real time' and honestly, I couldn't put it down.
I had to see what happened and I finished it late into the night, WOW. This book is about a guy down on himself, who runs away from his problems, only to meet a psychopath who eventually takes everything he held dear, but inadvertently, gives him the path to peace and happiness in a way the never expected.


I recommend this book, What a great read. It's not a mystery in the traditional sense, . and better off for it, It takes it's atmospheric time, setting up what it wants to be about, and the joy of discovery just what that is, :
Recommended So is Dafydd misremembering his time in Canada Is he the father of the twins The people of Moose Creek are protective of their own but Im not sure why.
So my suspicions were correct about Sheila, And now we know the identity of the boy from the prologue! I had all but forgotten about him, Surgeon Dafydd Eoddruff is leading a pretty good life, That is, until he receives a letter from the subArtic wilderness of Canada, A young girl writes him telling him that he is her father and that she has a twin brother,

Dafydd, fifteen years ago, found himself in this desolate area of Canada because he was trying to overcome what may have been a child's death, A child's death, which he may have caused due to an oversight during a routine operation, The oversight may well have been the result of his being hung over from a night of drinking,

He cannot remember any actions of his that would have made

him the father of these twins, however, he is unable to convince his wife, He agrees to a DNA test and the test comes back proof positive that he is the father, Still he is unable to accept that he is their father, so he travels back to Canada to confront the mother of the children,

He goes back to tha small hospital that he was working at and renews his relationship with his former workers, some good some bad, He finds that the mother was the head nurse at the hospital and that he had a very rocky relationship with her,

Dafydd is convinced to help out at the hospital while he is there, and befriends an old native who becomes a very important part of his life.
He enters into a relationship with his daughter that leads to more difficulty in his life, Remember he is married and has a wife in England, he is faced with positive DNA that he has fathered twins in Canada to a nurse he cannot remember having relationships with, and presently he is having an affair with a native girl while he is trying to unravel his life.


Although you will probably work all of Dafydd's problems out before he does, this does provide a very satisfying read, One should be aware that there is quite a bit of sexual content in the book, Some of it was necessary to the telling of the story, but unfortunately some of it could have easily been left out, Dit boek stond al zo lang in mijn boekenkast, maar opeens ben ik helemaal voor het lezen van oudere boeken, Het verhaal speelt zich af in Canada en in Cardiff, Wales, Hoewel dat laatste nauwelijks van belang is, Maar Canada speelt wel een grote rol, Kou, sneeuw en ijs, afgelegen dorpen, de inheemse bevolking, tradities en een beetje geloof in bovennatuurlijke zaken,
Dafydd krijgt een brief uit Moose Creek waarin een jong meisje zegt dat hij haar vader is en ook van haar tweelingbroer, Dafydd is inderdaad op het juiste moment in Moose Creek geweest als vervangende chirurg, Maar hij en de moeder, Sheila Hailey, konden echt niet met elkaar overweg, Hij kan zich totaal niet herinneren van iets dat ook maar lijkt op een intieme relatie met Sheila, Maar de dochter, Miranda, blijft schrijven en Sheila begint te praten over alimentatie, De vrouw van Dafydd, Isabel, staat op een DNAtest en als ook die positief is en reist Dafydd af naar Moose Creek en het verleden, Dafydd Woodruff was a very young surgeon when he made a nearly fatal mistake on the operating table, Shaken to the core by this event, he takes a locum position in the northern Canada wilderness to recover from his guilt and reassess, He spends a year in Moose Creek just enough time to experience the frontier style life,

Fifteen years later, Dafydd is a consultant surgeon in Wales, trying to start a family with his wife, the marriage struggling under the pressure of infertility, when he receives a letter from Moose Creek.
The letter is from a young girl who says she believes she, and her twin brother, are his children, Their mother, Sheila, is the head nurse at Moose Creek, but Dafydd is adamant that he was never involved with her, despite a blood test result that shows that one of the twins is definitely his son.


ICE TRAP moves between current day Cardiff, Moose Creek in, and then Moose Creek again in current time as Dafydd goes back to see the children despite his confusion about how they could be his.
Much of ICE TRAP is about watching Daffyd deal with his own life, In his early time in Moose Creek he's learning to deal with a world about as foreign to him as you could possibly get, When he returns afteryears, he's dealing with the crumbling, remoteness of his marriage the different reactions of the twin children that he can't remember fathering the antagonism of their mother Sheila the disintegration of the local doctor that had helped him so much in his earlier years the changes in other friends and contacts and even in the town itself.


In ICE TRAP the crime element is fraud, deception and theft, The community of Moose Creek is a small, isolated, insulated community with a lot of secrets and past baggage being dragged around, This change in focus from the more traditional crime story involving murder, kidnapping or personal threat of some kind makes for a significantly different styling, One of the major impacts of this is that the story moves very very slowly, taking a considerable part of the book to fill in the back story and then the current circumstances of Dafydd's time in Moose Creek before getting to any indication of the extent of the crimes.
The other impact is that the story is all about Dafydd it's seen through his eyes and because he is ultimately a victim of those events, it's selfinvolved, even selfindulgent in some places.


Not having a traditional form of crime / investigation / solution is not a barrier to having a good book, in fact, if handled well it provides a difference in approach that is extremely refreshing.
Whilst there were some good elements of that change in approach in ICE TRAP there are also elements that let the book down, The focus on the central character of Dafydd, in the role of victim, did get a bit tedious after a while, There were some inconsistencies in how he was reacting to the disintegration of his marriage and the amount of space in the book that the subject got that element of the storyline could have been tightened up and given a more realistic feeling.
The true story of the fathering of the children was pretty well telegraphed early on in the book and it wouldn't have hurt to bring out the truth of the goings on in Moose Creek earlier to keep the interest level higher.
Throughout the book, there are a number of points where the reader's attention is allowed to wander with nothing much being revealed and the story going nowhere, Towards the end of the book when the full story of the people and the town is being revealed and Dafydd is forced into taking some positive steps towards answering his own questions about the parentage of the children and the circumstances around their mother and the local hospital personnel the pace picks up, the story becomes more interesting and the reader's attention is more firmly held.
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