The Fireside Chats

I finally finished reading this last night. I’ve read the “Chronicles of Ancient Darkness” series by this author before and I’ve been wanting to read this for a while now. I couldn’t ever find this at my local book store so I ended up having to purchase this online.

I wanted to read this because it sounded like a good story about ghosts and a placed being haunted. The author writes well enough to make you wonder if the main character isn’t just experiencing hallucinations due to being alone or is this a real haunting. Definitely a book that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. {Note: This book is a novel geared towards adults.}

Synopsis: January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life, so when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice: stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return–when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark…