sarahmcclelland 's review for:

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

4.0

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I got this book as a gift and started reading it but half way through I stopped because I just wasn’t hooked. A few months later I had nothing else to read so decided to give it a second chance. Reading the second half was so much more enjoyable than the first half and I was hooked. There are some crazy plot twists and developments that I don’t usually find in survival stories and loved. The one thing that bugged me though, is that it is unrealistic in a few aspects. I live in northwestern Ontario and on cold days in the winter it can go down to -40 and it is impossible to be outside without a jacket for a few minutes, much less days without getting serious frost bite. The main character is trapped a lot farther north than where I live and, on top of not having a jacket, is malnourished, injured and without shelter. There is no way she would have survived that long in the cold. Even worse, the extreme cold isn’t really mentioned that much. Other than that this was a great book.