Book Review: Polar Night by Julie Flanders

A new month means another Prah and Constantine Review is here for you to enjoy. After reading my review, hop on over to Cathrina Constantine's blog to read hers. I’m curious to see what she thought about the book.

This month we are reviewing Polar Night by Julie Flanders. 

Let me preface this review by saying that my principle genre is romance, but I'm open to reading other genres. Constantine recommended that we read Polar Nights, and after I read the blurb I thought, why not?  It looked creepy but interesting. Little did I know that those two words would basically be my summed up review.

It was a fast paced read and I would have finished the book sooner, but I refused to read it at night. I admit that I’m a wuss when it comes to reading thrillers. Daniel Fitzpatrick was a hot mess throughout the story, but you felt sorry for him, even though he would  never have wanted you to. I kept thinking that he needed help. Flanders gave him that help by giving him the scare of his life after he made a bad move. A really bad move.

Flanders added a touch of history to this story which made Aleksei Nechayev's secret more plausible and even creepier. Alaska was the perfect setting for this book, and if you didn’t know that Alaska was cold, Flanders made sure you could actually feel the bone chilling cold by the time you finished the story. The ending of Polar Night totally surprised me, and that was a good thing.

If you want a page turner that you won’t want to put down, unless it’s night time, then Polar Night is for you.

I purchased my copy at Amazon.com.

Happy reading everyone.

The Blurb

When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan winter, Danny is content with a dead-end job investigating Fairbanks' cold cases. That all changes when a pretty blond woman goes missing on the winter solstice, and Danny stumbles upon some surprising connections between her disappearance and that of another Fairbanks woman three years earlier. Forced out of his lethargy, Danny sets out to both find the missing woman and solve his own cold case. 

The investigation points Danny towards Aleksei Nechayev, the handsome and charming proprietor of an old asylum turned haunted tourist attraction in the Arctic town of Coldfoot. As he tries to find a link between Nechayev and his case, Danny's instinct tells him that Nechayev is much more than what he seems.

Danny has no idea that Nechayev is hiding a secret that is much more horrifying than anything he could ever have imagined. As his obsession with finding the missing women grows, Danny finds his own life in danger. And when the truth is finally revealed, the world as he knows it will never be the same.