The Winter Over
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The Winter Over
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Narrated by:
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Karen Peakes
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By:
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Matthew Iden
About this listen
Each winter the crew at the Shackleton South Pole Research Facility faces nine months of isolation, round-the-clock darkness, and one of the most extreme climates on the planet. For thirty-something mechanical engineer Cass Jennings, Antarctica offers an opportunity to finally escape the guilt of her troubled past and to rebuild her life.
But the death of a colleague triggers a series of mysterious incidents that push Cass and the rest of the forty-four-person crew to the limits of their sanity and endurance. Confined and cut off from the outside world, will they work together or turn against one another? As the tension escalates, Cass must find the strength to survive not only a punishing landscape but also an unrelenting menace determined to destroy the station - and everyone in it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- B. Rawlings
- 17-04-2019
Slow first half, average second half.
Fair warning, nothing much happens in the first half of this story. In fact, in a 10 hour book, the actual "Winter Over" (the 9 month, pitch black, lockdown of the South Pole facility) doesn't start until around the 3 hour mark! And there's almost no action at all in the first half. That being said, if you are genuinely interested in how a station at the South Pole operates or what residing there would be like, you do get a good feel for it. This story doesn't lack in descriptions. This can be both a pro and a con. The negative side of this is that, once the action does start, it comes in small doses, then the story skips ahead to describing the aftermath.
The narration is done well and is pleasant to listen to, but some of the voices are hard to discern and tell apart. And some of the periphery characters felt a bit underdeveloped. As for the plot and character twists, they were easily predictable. The only unpredictable thing was exactly how each situation would play out and the events that happened.
Overall, this book isn't a bad one in anyway, but I wouldn't describe it as very engaging either and it's definitely not at the top of my top favourite audio books.
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