A review by lydiagrace1999
Out of the Ice by Ann Turner

3.0

After being gifted this book a few months ago, I was a bit dubious to read it. It certainly isn’t a genre I’m familiar with, and the Antarctic setting is not one I thought a solid narrative could be based. Of course, Turner did end up doing this, but everything just felt too... far-fetched. It’s certainly not like a book I’ve ever read before, but I doubt in the next few months I will particularly remember it or what happens. Also, I found Laura, the protagonist, unlikeable. To me, she was a boisterous woman who didn’t like doing what /anyone/ told her, and despite being 39 years old in this book, her taste in men was either those who were 10 years older or younger than her. Very strange. She was too trusting in characters she’d only just met, and it seemed she only realised this when on her own. It came across to me that others’ opinions of her, especially of men, were what mattered to her most rather than how she valued herself. Overall, an easy read but nothing out of the extraordinary, 3/5.