Wednesday 7 September 2016

Ice Twins: Enchanting read



This is a book that will move you from the first chapter. Beautifully written, S.K Tremayne delivers a poignant story of a family shattered by the loss of a daughter, a tale of betrayal, hatred and lies. All displayed with the bleak backdrop of Eilan Torran, the Thunder Island as the locals call it, where the reader will feel suffocated by the sense of isolation and cold grayness. The mystery revolves about the absolute perplex of a bereaved parent before confused identities of her twins: the terrible question that haunts the protagonist Sarah Moorcroft; who actually died in that doomed day? Kirstie or Lydia? the living and the dead meet in Eilan Torran which is haunted by coldness, infested by rats, surrounded by water and mudflats.
who really died there?

The author succeeded amazingly to tell this heartbreaking story in a very poetic and lyrical way. Starting from the beautiful yet cold Scottish setting, the sensations and senses find their home in the book, the cold nips at your fingers, the isolated place gives you a feeling of despair, the thunder screams in your ears, those sensations are perfectly described along with the feelings of guilt, anger, despair, anguish and grief that overwhelm Sarah and Angus before the confusion of their surviving twin.
The last chapter should be praised alone for its intensity that I had to read it twice in order to absorb each sentence and fact about an answer that will be left to the readers to decide on.
Book lovers, I highly recommend this one to read, it will really fulfill your reading buds.
S.K Tremayne will be absolutely on my radar.

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