![]() ![]() ![]() The setting of the small skiing village, the majestic mountain side, and the ever-oppressive weather were one continuous landscape that easily transported me to their surroundings. The rest of the story details what they do there, on that lonely slope, all by themselves, and how it all turns out. After making their way out of the resulting mess and back to their hotel, they find that everyone has gone, with nothing to explain their disappearance. They’re out for a brisk morning slide down the mountain, when an avalanche descends on them from above. Zoe and Jake are on vacation, skiing in the Pyrenees mountains above the village of Saint-Bernard-en-Haut. Zoe is the main PoV character, though Jake’s thoughts are peppered infrequently throughout the book. It’s a quick, focused read revolving around the relationship of a single couple, Zoe and Jake. ![]() THE SILENT LAND ( Amazon) is a Graham Joyce novel, an author with quite a few works already under his feet. Anyone visiting this site interested in reading a literary novel? I don’t know if there will be, but here I go, nonetheless. This one feels more like a literary novel to me. When is a fantasy novel not a fantasy novel? Well, I’d say when it’s this novel, but there might be others that would beg to differ. ![]()
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