A Haunting in the Arctic
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4.1 • 7 calificaciones
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Descripción editorial
A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches.
The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them...
Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbidding, remote coast of Iceland. It’s scheduled to be destroyed, but explorer Dominique feels an inexplicable pull to document its last days, even though those who have ventured onto the wreck before her have met uncanny ends.
Onboard the boat, Dominique will uncover a dark past riddled with lies, cruelty, and murder—and her discovery will change everything. Because she’ll soon realize she’s not alone. Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for almost a century. Something that craves revenge.
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Cooke (The Lighthouse Witches) adroitly intertwines past and present in this frosty spine-tingler. In 1973, the mutilated corpse of Argentinian scientist Diego Almeyda is found by the Russian coast guard inside a locked room on the Ormen, a 19th-century whaler turned research vessel. Something or someone gnawed his face off and his feet have both been split to resemble fish tails. The responders also discover sketches of a woman with seaweed instead of hair, and the message "She is on board." With that Damoclean sword in place, Cooke flashes back to 1901, when Nicky Duthie, the daughter of the Ormen's owner, is attacked on a walk and awakes aboard the ship, where she is at the mercy of a savage crew. Meanwhile, in 2023, Dominique, a secretive woman, journeys to the Arctic Circle to film the shipwrecked Ormen to boost the number of her TikTok followers, only to run into a mysterious trio of explorers, and experience bewildering visions of a woman no one else can see. Cooke expertly maintains suspense throughout, gradually peeling back the layers of each timeline. Admirers of Dan Simmons's The Terror will be especially pleased.
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Hmm…
I wanted to like this book. I really really did. It’s an interesting take on trauma and the book is an extended metaphor for it.
I really enjoyed the Nicky chapters. Her marriage, getting taken aboard the Ormen, the men that used and abused her, and her injury, were fascinating.
The Dominique chapters though… They bored me. I suppose I should have figured out the ending beforehand, but I was just so upset at how jumbled and ridiculous Dominique’s time on the Ormen was. Samarah and Leo were annoying. Jens was alright, but Dominique’s ignorance to what was going on was frustrating. I found her hard to root for. I thought the big reveal was just drawn out.
Again, I understand her story with context of the ending, but it just didn’t work for me.