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A review by melbsreads
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
4.0
3.5 stars.
I've shelved this as "dystopian", but it's really speculative fiction. I just don't read enough spec fic to warrant having a shelf for it. So.
This reminded me quite a lot of Station Eleven, in that it's spec fic and there's a plague. Which doesn't sound that much like it should remind me of Station Eleven, but here we are.
So the basic gist of the story is that this team of archaeologists goes to excavate a site in Greenland. As the excavation progresses, they slowly start to lose contact with the outside world after reports of a flu pandemic start to spread online. Also one of their team is dealing with pretty serious mental health issues, and also they're maybe being stalked by the ghosts of the bodies they're excavating???
I liked the tension in the story, and I enjoyed the setting and the archaeology side of things. But Nina was a suuuuuper annoying narrator during the first chunk of the book, and I found the ending pretty confusing? Like, I read one chunk of it twice and I still have no idea what happened. Plus, that whole ghost-y thing is never explained, so IDK what the hell was going on with that.
Overall, I think I'd sum this up as enjoyable, but weird.
I've shelved this as "dystopian", but it's really speculative fiction. I just don't read enough spec fic to warrant having a shelf for it. So.
This reminded me quite a lot of Station Eleven, in that it's spec fic and there's a plague. Which doesn't sound that much like it should remind me of Station Eleven, but here we are.
So the basic gist of the story is that this team of archaeologists goes to excavate a site in Greenland. As the excavation progresses, they slowly start to lose contact with the outside world after reports of a flu pandemic start to spread online. Also one of their team is dealing with pretty serious mental health issues, and also they're maybe being stalked by the ghosts of the bodies they're excavating???
I liked the tension in the story, and I enjoyed the setting and the archaeology side of things. But Nina was a suuuuuper annoying narrator during the first chunk of the book, and I found the ending pretty confusing? Like, I read one chunk of it twice and I still have no idea what happened. Plus, that whole ghost-y thing is never explained, so IDK what the hell was going on with that.
Overall, I think I'd sum this up as enjoyable, but weird.