Welcome to Litsy!

Stoker nominee for best first novel. Jo Morgan is honoring the death of her brothers who died in WWI by presenting as a man (Jo is a trans man) and stowing away on a ship headed for a South Pole expedition in 1919. This is survival horror with a supernatural element. It‘s a little long and is a slow burn but I could not stop reading. I credit Wilkes with really putting me in the setting. It‘s miserable all the way through and you just want 👇🏼

This was a 3.5 star read for me. The first half of the book dragged and could have benefited from better editing. The second half of the book was great! I'm a big fan of The Thing and love books with similar themes. Once the monster actually gets involved, this book hooked me.

Just didn't do anything for me and left me feeling very “meh“ at the end.

Just glad to be done with it and moving on to better books.

Completed two prompts:
#Booked2022 “Involves an exploration“
@4thhouseontheleft
@Cinfhen
@BarbaraTheBibliophage

Also, working on All-The-Genres on The Storygraph and this fit the genre of LGBTQIA+.

This weeks #weeklyforcast and #bookreport

Read this week: Worst Hard Time-this was fantastic and No Accident-this was meh

Currently Reading: All the White Spaces (literally just a few pages in)

Up next: The next Cork O'Connor book, Boundary Waters

Jo Morgan‘s two brothers, dead in a doomed WWI skirmish, always dreamed of getting to the South Pole. To fulfill their dream, and in an equally doomed effort to keep some part of them alive, Jo Morgan stows away (as Jonathan) on the Fortitude, the ship taking James Randall‘s expedition to the frozen South. Everyone aboard carries their ghosts with them, and in the polar night, they become terribly real. You‘ll want a blanket, even in June.

I am a sucker for doomed expedition stories and love a good supernatural scare – throw in some complex characters with fabulous writing and you have me! A post WWI Antarctic expedition that goes awry leaving a stowaway and the surviving crew to contend with supernatural forces, oppressive cold, and personal demons to survive the winter ashore was fabulous written and stuck with me for weeks. #NetGalley #allthewhitespaces #antarctica

Jonathan is set himself out for an adventure in memory of his two lost brothers.The main character, Jo, is a trans-man. You can hear the pain that Jo goes through to be seen as Jo, and just who he felt that he‘s always been, while trying to honor the memory of his brothers. I felt that it was taking a while to get to know the characters, but it worked out in the end. This is a good spooky story to read at night, without giving you nightmares.

New year, New book. I know what I‘m doing tonight! Thank you Atria Books♥️