A story of perseverence, life and danger as twelve women go on an expedition for Lady Jane Franklin to find her lost husband's expedition and in the process find so much more than they anticipated.
My Rating for The Arctic Fury: 3.5 Stars
My Review:
Twelve women go on an
adventure and when some only return, life is about to get complicated.
Lady Jane Franklin is
determined to find her husband and his lost expedition in the arctic. Four
parties led by men have had no luck so she turns to a new approach: put women
in charge and just maybe she will get the answers she needs to what happened to
her husband.
A year passes and now
Virginia Reeve stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition are few but
publicly sit in the front row giving her the support she needs. But out of a
dozen, only five survived, what happened to the others? Was it murder? Or was
it death by nature, misadventure, or other such random happenstance? Only the
survivors know what happened and they are not talking.
THE ARCTIC FURY is my first foray into author Greer
Macallister’s writing and it was an interesting story. The premise of Lady Jane
Franklin’s tireless search for her husband and his expedition, the search for
answers was the backdrop of the book as it mingles with scenes from a year
later when Virginia, the leader of the all women expedition and one of the few
survivors is on trial for murder. The back-and-forth storylines takes a little
to get used to but after a while you get in the rhythm of the story as present
and past collide and as the reader gets more insight to just what happened on
the women’s expedition. The story is swift, and the author does a great job
capturing all the characters personalities and uniqueness.
We meet Virginia Reeve as she stands trial for the murder of young and rich
Caprice Collins, one of the few who didn’t return from the arctic with the
others. Lady Jane Franklin chooses Virginia to lead the expedition she is
putting together as Virginia has experience in leading wagon trains westward.
The author does a great job keeping the reader on their toes as the story
unfolds in its fashion. We get glimpses of how Virginia interacted with all the
other women in the group during the expedition as well as afterwards, during the
trial. The tension continues as the reader is taken on the journey with the women
expedition as well as the aftermath as Virginia fights for her life with a
seemingly incompetent defense attorney and a powerful and rich family determined
to make someone pay for Caprice’s death. What the reader gets is more than a
typical this is what happened, here is the aftermath and behold all go home. THE
ARCTIC FURY is a bit different int hat regard as it delivers a story of
faith, hope and perseverance that will keep you entertained until the end. I
really enjoyed this first book of Greer Macallister and look forward to reading
more from her in the future.
This is an objective review
and not an endorsement
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