Erica Ferencik

(2022)Starts slowly, but really picks up at the end. A young girl is found frozen in ice in Greenland. The ice is cut out and when she thaws out, she is alive. The scientific station that finds her, brings in Val, a linguist, to try to communicate. It's determined that she must be 100s of years old as her language is too archaic for modern times. The story is really a warning of global warming and its affect on weather. KIRKUS: When a girl frozen in ice at the Arctic Circle thaws out alive, an ancient Nordic languages specialist with troubles of her own is called to the scene.Ferencik�author of Into the Jungle (2019)Â¥specializes in thrillers set in wilderness environments with female protagonists; her latest takes us to the land of subzero temperatures and wind-whipped polar landscapes. But bad weather is just the beginning of the unpleasantness Val Chesterfield encounters when she overcomes her many phobias to fly out and help climate scientist Wyatt Speeks with his perplexing specimen. The girl he chopped out of the wall of a crevasse and defrosted is terrified, violent, and unintelligible. While Wyatt is creepy on many levels, creepiest of all is his unwillingness to discuss the death by exposure of his erstwhile lab partner, Val's twin brother, Andy. Andy's having gotten locked out of the house overnight in his underwear has been presented as a suicide, but neither Val nor her father, also a climate scientist, believe it. Belief is a problem all through this bookÂ¥the elements made up to serve the plot rest on a foundation of real climate science, linguistics, and cultural history but still don't manage to be convincing. The five charactersÂ¥Val, Wyatt, a nasty cook, and a pair of married marine scientistsÂ¥are also less than lifelike. Saddled with mental health issues and bad manners, their interactions range from rude to abusive except for the married couple, who are so in love it's nauseating. You really wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with these people, which poor Val is much of the time, and now someone has stolen her anxiety meds and hidden the booze! She finds herself becoming deeply attached to the mystery girl, but progress with communication is slow, and the girl's health takes a drastic turn for the worse. And then they all go outside and things get crazy.Tense, claustrophobic, and a bit hard to swallow.Pub Date: March 1, 2022ISBN: 978-1-9821-4302-2Page Count: 304Publisher: Scout Press/Simon & Schuster… (meer)

An edge of your seat” adventure novel set in the jungle of Bolivia . Lilly, a 19 yr old American product of the foster care system is backpacking in Bolivia when she meets local Omar and falls in love heading into the jungle with him to his home. The rest of the novel is filled with high adventure, great descriptions of jungle life and some mysticism with Shaman( Beya) . Turns out Lily is a shaman too. Lots of gory food and slithering animals and it all comes together in a tense, action packed thriller of a read. I enjoyed “ Into the Jungle” very much.… (meer)

Troubled Lily has had enough of bad foster homes and uncaring people so she packs a back pack and accepting a job offer heads to Cochabamba, Bolivia only to find that the job is non-existent. She does get a menial job at a hostel and there meets up with a couple of other travellers. The three girls spend much of their time drifting from bar to bar. Then one night Lily’s life changes forever when she meets and falls in love with Omar.

Omar is from the Amazonian jungle and when he is called to return home, Lily decides to go with him. She soon finds out that surviving the jungle with it’s poachers, remote tribes, shamens, killer animals and poisonous insects is not going to be easy. From horrible weather to countless dangers, Lily is totally out of her comfort zone and struggles to find how to fit in.

Into the Jungle is exactly what I was looking to read. An over-the-top adventure story about a young American woman living in the Bolivian jungle. The dangers and the strange mysticism that Lily experiences are a little melodramatic but had this reader rapidly turning the pages in order to find out what hazard Lily would next face.… (meer)