I thoroughly enjoyed Juris Jurjevics's "The Trudeau Vector", which featured a mysterious killer in an Arctic research facility. I liked Dan Brown's Inferno, which looked at the possibility of someone attempting to unleash a biological "solution" to the problem of overpopulation. Put the two together, and you have James Tabor's "Frozen Solid".
I enjoyed Mr. Tabor's look at a murderer loose in an Antarctic research facility, while some sort of unauthorized (and secret to all but a few most people can read between the lines here) research into disease vectors among humans. The characters seemed real to me, and mostly likeable, and the setting was certainly unique and necessary to the plot both are aspects of a book that I expect to find and am disappointed when I don't.
However ... it was disappointing not because of anything that Mr. Tabor did or didn't do, BUT because due to the luck of the draw of my earlier reading, I'd felt like I'd been there before. Still, I'm not penalizing his rating for this fact is, I did like the book, and would have liked it even more had the main plot aspects not already been covered in my earlier reading.
RATING: 4 stars.
I enjoyed Mr. Tabor's look at a murderer loose in an Antarctic research facility, while some sort of unauthorized (and secret to all but a few most people can read between the lines here) research into disease vectors among humans. The characters seemed real to me, and mostly likeable, and the setting was certainly unique and necessary to the plot both are aspects of a book that I expect to find and am disappointed when I don't.
However ... it was disappointing not because of anything that Mr. Tabor did or didn't do, BUT because due to the luck of the draw of my earlier reading, I'd felt like I'd been there before. Still, I'm not penalizing his rating for this fact is, I did like the book, and would have liked it even more had the main plot aspects not already been covered in my earlier reading.
RATING: 4 stars.
