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I wasn't sure whether I liked this book right from the start but there was something about it that kept me reading. It did pick up into a decent thriller apart from the absurdity of Yasmin driving an eighteen wheeler along the ice road in a heavy snow storm. Suspend your disbelief there!

What a naff book to end the year on! But then considering this year, maybe it‘s appropriate! 😆 a mother and her 10yr old daughter go looking for her husband in the Alaskan wilderness. This was so disappointing and plain daft and very contrived and ridiculous! 🙄

Ice Road Truckers meets Criminal Minds! A woman & her deaf daughter travel deep into the remotest part of Alaska to look for her husband who‘s reported dead but no body was found. Improbable but engaging thriller with good characters and vivid descriptions. A mild pick due to the WTH ending. #50states

I‘m stretching a little to use this for #socialmedia focus as there‘s a lot about Twitter and the blog dad & daughter plan to write. #Booked2019 ⬇️

1. You‘ll probably see this again later since I‘m about 70% done.
2. Church, library, church.
3. Yes.
4. Mary Sue 🤣
5. Always
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This is the first time I‘ve read a thriller with such beautiful language and done like literary fiction. It‘s the story of a 10-year-old deaf girl named Ruby and her mom who are told their father died in a small Alaskan village when fire took out everyone there. They refuse to believe it and go on a wild ride trying to find him. Very suspenseful and not at all like anything I‘ve read before!

I have a split feelings about this one. Great narration, great writing, great characters, great description, but I found the end pretty... can't find the word. Just a bit disappointing. But it's a pick beacuse of the writing. Something between 3 and 4 ⭐

#currentlyreading

This book is very well written. I work with deaf children and this was a real insight. I couldn't put it down.

Story is very cheesy though a good message about nature is portrayed. Not really sure how I feel about this story. Took me a while to finish as couldn't get gripped by the narrative. What are other people's thoughts on he book? #thequalityofsilence

After a long and stressful day time to relax with a book and bed #nearlytheweekend

High hopes for this book! #newbooksmell #february #hardback #chill #relax #newstory

Mother and deaf daughter Ruby are looking for missing father in Alaska. Beautiful written story with extraordinary descriptions of the silence in the landscape, people and the silence that surrounds Ruby. It's a mystery book with disappointing ending, but worth to read!

#photoadaynov16 #disabilities

Really liked this one. A mother and deaf daughter go in search of their husband/father who allegedly died in the Alaskan wilderness. Very suspenseful and eye-opening to experience parts of the story told through the eyes of the deaf child.

I read this book a few months ago and I gave it 👎just because I was disappointed with the end and now I'm fixing this unfair rating. Mystery is intriguing, main characters are interesting but what makes this book worth reading is a description of the Alaska written so gorgeous that #wishIcouldbethere

#booktober

Love this book! So suspenseful and beautifully descriptive.

This book was ridiculous.

Ok, so completely over this character and her utterly reckless denial and idiocy. I'm going to skim the rest of this book to see how it ends.

"And she knew she had been lonely ... Because she had been missing herself as she used to be." I know this exactly.

Awake early, so naturally, it means extra reading time!!!! Although Leopold thinks it means extra kitty time.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. 50 pages in, and I adore one main character and detest the other. Anyone read this one? Thoughts? Going to give it a few more chapters because it's easy reading.

Terrifying. The writing is so descriptive and believable, I felt like I was trapped in the desperately cold and infinitely isolating tundra of Alaska right with the characters on their seemingly impossible quest.

Friday evening date with the couch.

Then Ruby had come downstairs and interrupted them, but their argument continued, in disrupted fragments, with nothing gained or conceded on either side because when you argued about your child there was no compromise or turning away from what you believed was right.

Such good reviews and yet I don't see why...

Pure disappointment.

I am transfixed. I want to know how it ends, yet I don't ever want it to end.

Nine pages in, this has captured me.