**3.5 Stars**Yeah, another book filled with ice and snow. This time we are in the Arctic Circle, where Val Chesterfield is called in to decipher what language a little girl is speaking. Not just any little girl, but a child that was defrosted from a block of ice and survived. Crazy town right? Did I mention Val's twin brother was on this discovery until he committed suicide by becoming a human popsicle? Val suspects foul play. She takes it upon herself to investigate because her father is an ass...

I really enjoyed “Girl in Ice” by Erica Ferencik. this is the first book I've read by that author, and I doubt it will be my last.Set in the future, with a bit of science fiction, a young girl found frozen by researchers in the Artic ice, defrosts alive. If you can get past that tidbit of SciFi, you will enjoy this story. This is an atmospheric tale in the freezing tundra with climate change undertones running through the story.The head researcher, Wyatt finds the girl and contacts a fellow rese...

NOW AVAILABLE!val chesterfield is a renowned linguist whose crippling anxiety disorder has forced her to turn down numerous opportunities to study rare languages in the field. dead languages are her special passion, and her life is quiet, lonely—the act of translation satisfying the frisson of human connection that others derive from a more traditional social life. I felt safest in my office, alone with my books, charts, runic symbols, and scraps of old text; and when I deciphered a chunk of lan...

3. 5 stars rounded up for a somewhat implausible mystery. Val Chesterfield is a brilliant linguist, and specializes in extinct/obscure languages, including Inuit. This was an uncorrected proof sent to me by Scout Press. There was a note apologizing for the use of the phrase "Polar Eskimo." It explained that the phrase would be corrected in the final printing.Val is grieving the loss of her twin brother, Andy, who was doing ground breaking research at a remote outpost in Greenland. His death was

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.An intriguing, locked-room sort of thriller set in the Arctic Circle that dabbles in communing with nature, the ethics of scientific research, and finding a common language (quite literally). The writing is solid, with rhetorical flourishes exhibited around the natural elements, with a well-balanced cast of characters whose competing desires are apparent right away (perhaps a little too apparent).There are aspects of this book that really sung for me. The focus...

“We found a body in the ice out on Glacier 35A. A young girl. We were able to cut through the ice and bring her back to the compound. Val, she thawed out alive. Don’t ask me to explain it, I can’t.”…I lost my way when I tried to explain the word hope. But she told me about a word in her language for a particular kind of hope: the feeling a hunter has when he’s waited all day at a breathing hole for a seal and one comes up but he misses with his harpoon, and even though the sun is going down and

4.5 stars. I rarely rate thrillers more than 4 stars, but this one was exceptional. The Arctic setting was unique for its isolation, harshness, and beauty. The story behind the girl in the ice was both ridiculous and crazily plausible. The heroine suffers from anxiety and loneliness. Most people in her life either didn't see her or didn't like her. I really liked her and admired her intelligence. I certainly admire the author's intelligence. It was such a lovely change to read a whip-smart, page...

Girl in Ice by Erica FerencikVal Chesterfield, a linguist trained in dead Nordic languages, is just the person for the job when her late twin brother's mentor, Wyatt, a climate scientist, asks her to help him on a remote Greenland island. Val suffers from anxiety that should keep her from accepting the offer except that the climate station is where her brother committed suicide and Val wants to find out what really happened at the ice bound station. The story already had a dark, claustrophobic f...

4.5*Bundle up and get your cup of hot cocoa…it’s going to be a chilly trip to the Arctic Circle!Val is a linguistics expert currently teaching at University level. She just received a life-changing call that a girl has literally been thawed out of a piece of ice in the frozen Arctic expanse. It’s impossible to determine how long she’d been entombed in ice. What is certain…she is most certainly alive! And talking. But no one can figure out what language. The lead researcher requests Val’s assista...

4.5 stars! The author, Erica Ferencik, has written a third descriptive, atmospheric book focusing on adventure, danger, and survival in diverse environments. She transports the reader into her settings to the extent you have a vivid picture of the locations and feel the surroundings her characters endure. Her last book was set in the humid, steaming, tropical Bolivian jungle. Girl In Ice immerses the reader in the bitter, treeless frozen tundra on a remote Arctic island off the north coast of Gr...

Valerie Chesterfield travels to a climate research station on Taararmiut Island off Greenland's northwest coast where a little girl found under an ice crevasse is thawed out alive. Val's a linguist and her expertise in (dead) Nordic language is possibly the only way to communicate with the girl. This is an outstanding atmospheric thriller! I feel a sense of danger from polar freezing temperature, isolation, and the unknown in such an inhospitable setting. I feel the rush against time to help sav...

"Never had my curiosity about a place or a language overridden my 'just say no' reflex. I'm tethered to the familiar...what I perceive as safe...".Val Chesterfield was a linguist with a fascination for extinct tongues-Old Norse and Old Danish. By dissecting words into morphemes (the smallest unit of language that has meaning) and "deciphering a chuck of language-even a word... the distance between me and another human being, just for that moment, was erased."On a remote Greenland Island above th...

I’ve not read Erica Ferencik’s other books, The River at Night and Into the Jungle, but I bought them because the premises sound too good to miss. Girl in Ice sounded equally fascinating.Val is a linguist, an expert in dead languages. Her brother, Andy, is a researcher in the Arctic when he dies by suicide, which Val finds questionable.Shortly after, a girl is found in the ice, once frozen and now thawed, and speaking a language no one can understand. Andy’s colleague, Wyatt, calls on Val to pos...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️𝕀 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕓𝕣𝕣𝕣𝕣…. 𝕀𝕥’𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖!⏰ 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: Val is an anxiety-fighting linguist grappling with the suicide of her twin brother Andy, when his mentor/coworker/fellow scientist Wyatt calls to enlist her help. In Greenland. Yup.. Arctic GREENLAND. He claims to have thawed a native girl from the ice who speaks a language no one understands. Val, in disbelief, reluctantly embarks on the journey, not merely to aid in linguistics (to whatever this is), but to uncover what actually...

I feel like such a grumpy reader lately with giving less than stellar reviews. I was excited about this book because I saw a lot of my favorite authors giving blurbs about it, but sadly it was way too slow for my liking. If you like slow building drama, this book would work for you. I thought it would venture on the side of horror, but it didn't provide the scares that it could've with its storyline.

Wow. This book was so much more than I thought it would be. I wanted to read it, because the idea of someone found in ice thawing out alive sounded intriguing. It definitely met my expectations there, but the book was about so much more than that. I’m not even sure where to start; this book had everything, and was everything.Val is a linguist, specializing in ancient Nordic languages. One day, she gets an email from a scientist she knows, asking for her help. He claims to have found a young girl...