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In this uniquely strange, bold and true new world that Peter May has created, there are MIRIAD thrills, humor, horror, satisfaction and WONDER. I was confused and found that I wasn’t enjoying this tale much at all - I was already considering giving up on it. While initially these threads may have felt a bit disparate, they came to flow well together for me, filling in aspects of the story as and when needed for the sake of all the characters involved.
Younger was no walker making his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven unexplainable.What follows is a story that take place in both 2051 and 2023 the changes in times were sometime jarring but once I got use to it I settled into the story. Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. The author presents a fascinating vision of things that may come - floods, famine, vast areas of land becoming unlivable, the deaths of millions of people across the globe. It’s good that I make a habit of trying nót to read too much information and/or reviews before I read a book myself.
Against this backdrop, Addie checks the mountain top weather station she instals above Kinlochleven in the Highlands when she notices what appears to be an ice tunnel which has created a cathedral like arch. However, it is clever and innovative, and the ultimate truth of how necessary it is to make a difference with your life, lasts after you finish reading. A young meteorologist named Addie is checking a mountain top weather station and discovers the body of a man encased by ice. In 2005, May could not find a publisher for his book “Lockdown,” set in the midst of a devastating global pandemic, but it became a best seller in 2020 as readers struggled with that very issue. Add to this a central character prepared to give his all in one last fight and you have a totally gripping crime thriller that is chilling in more ways than one.In Scotland the melting ice caps halt the Gulf Stream effect which means it is frequently hit by brutal snow and ice storms. A chilling book, perhaps best read in summer as the descriptions bring to life the deep, deep cold of post climate change Scotland. Ultimately the book which was supposed to be a page turner, ended up being heavy and failed to leave a real impact. The amazing standard of writing made me feel as though I was there in the snow, hail, blizzards, up the mountains.
The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But when I glanced at the scant description for this one (‘a young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice’) it immediately reminded me of those three cherished books.There’s humour although this rightly diminishes as danger levels rise, there’s plenty of tension, excitement accompanied by a building menace and peril. No wild, insanely-laughing and hooting gangs of killers/looters/madmen roaming the ravaged streets, their sole purpose to snuff out the few remaining embers of humanity (I should think the definitive masterpiece, “A Clockwork Orange”, would have sewn all of that up for us, and under a glass-topped coffee table whose “legs” are a naked, plasticized woman)! Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to fly out to investigate Younger’s death, but his ulterior motive is something else all together. Ferocious storms have become a frequent occurrence for the residents of Kinlochleven, resulting in power cuts and the loss of communications with the outside world for days at a time. He is identified as George Younger, an investigative reporter who went missing three months earlier.
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