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Cold Earth (2009)

by Sarah Moss(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

184708060X (ISBN13: 9781847080608)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Granta Books (UK)

review 1: Such a great concept, truly creepy. But then, about halfway through, the haunting stops. Why? I completely get that she wanted to write it using the notebooks of each character, but the best part of the story gets lost along the way. I do like that you have to deduct what the action was from the snippets of each notebook. There's something eerie about that. However, it felt like half of a book and at the end I wanted to shake the author. GAH! Give us more!
review 2: A really interesting idea for a novel, and a good plot, which I found quite gripping. The setting of Greenland is portrayed in a really atmospheric way and reminded me of Moss's brilliant non-fiction account of her time in Iceland, 'Names for the Sea.' However the first of the narrators in '... moreCold Earth'(and the one given the biggest part of the story to tell) is, in my opinion, a VERY irritating character! Although I don't always mind this in a novel ('Gatsby' is one of my all-time favourites, for example), with 'Cold Earth' I found the unlikeable narrator a bit of a barrier to my overall enjoyment of the story. less

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