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Stranded: A Novel

por Bracken MacLeod

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"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew, which does little to ease their growing distrust of him. Dismissing Noah's warnings of worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears, revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may not be their destination. Noah leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves" --… (más)
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Excellent book! The men must dig deep to figure out what is important. Good action, wonderful portrayal of the environment and a touch of eeriness. Perfectly balanced plot that will make you question your own reality. ( )
  CasSprout | Dec 18, 2022 |
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Noah is traveling aboard the ship Arctic Promise, the toxic domain filled with a crew who hates him. but the money is worth the effort. Every time Noah goes out on the sea he risks not returning to his daughter who is the light of his life and wants something better for both of them. In that spirit, this will be his final voyage with he Arctic Promise. The Promise ends up mired in a especially thick fog rife with secrets to be revealed, lives to be lost an surprising mysteries to be uncovered.

The fog also brings a mysterious illness that both terrifies and incapacitates the crew. Then the Arctic Promise becomes stuck in the ice..but they are stuck in a place they shouldn't be, and time is running out.

From the get-go this novel is eerie, with a story that doesn't make sense altogether: why does the crew hate him and the captain especially? Why does Noah feel a sense of foreboding and feel overpowering guilt? Over time, we learn bit by bit about the crew, their history creating a rich and full world heavy with shame, guilt, terror and sorrow. Its the slow unveiling of the deep secrets of the crew in tandem with the strange, creeping illness to which each man is succumbing that really makes this a fantastic read.

I loved Noah for his bravery and strength as well as his deep sensitivity. He is our every man, attempting to get home to his family but not at the expense of his crew. Yet, he is deeply scarred and throughout his journey learns to not only forgive himself, but also others.

Without giving anything away, there's a bit of time travel, a bit of fantasy and a definite HMS Erebus and HMS Terror flair.

Also, its a slow burn horror novel on the sea written by an exceptional writer. Whats not to love?

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan-Tor/Forge for a copy of this book to review. ( )
  trigstarom | Aug 23, 2021 |
When I read the description for Stranded, I had a flashback to the hours I spent watching “The Deadliest Catch” and I hope this would be all the drama of that show in a novel. While there was zero crabbing involved, it did scratch a Deadliest Catch itch. MacLeod wrote the setting of the ship, the sea, and the ice with a voice that transported me there, even though I’ve never experienced any of those things in reality. There was enough description for me to feel immersed in the setting yet I didn’t feel like anything was over-described, which is a difficult balance to find, especially with unusual settings.

When it comes to the plot, I am a little more conflicted. I have to admit, I was a bit bored for the first section and very end of the book. For someone is who removed from the world of seamen and icy oceans, it felt very technical and difficult to engage with. The twist, however, was so unexpected and really caught my attention. I think MacLeod did a nice job dropping clues and setting it up without giving it away, and I audibly gasped when I realized what was going on. MacLeod handled the plot twist well and upped the stakes tremendously in a way that drew me in completely. Stranded lost me a little bit again in the last 20 pages, this time because of the immense violence, gore, and mismatched emotional reactions. Without giving too much away, I felt like the last pages of the book tried too hard to reach to combine climax with resolution and the result was a bit of a mess. It all ramped up too quickly and too much for me at the end and fizzled out, which was disappointing considering how much I liked the middle of the story.

Finally, the characters fall in the same gray area as the plot for me. Noah, the main protagonist, is a man of man painful memories and interactions and it was hard to associate Noah with anything positive. He wasn’t a complainer, which was a relief, and his emotional and physical reactions to the events happening were, for the most part, appropriate and well written. Yet everything was just so depressing that it was hard to find anything other than gloom and despair. There were a few other characters that brought a bit of levity to the story but overall the situation the men are dealing with is so dire – being stuck on ice and the subsequent deaths will put a damper on things – that even the few bits of humor felt out of place. So while the characters and their personalities certainly fit the plot line, I wish there had been a bit more lightness woven throughout the story.

Overall, I think MacLeod hit the stranded at sea nail on the head. It’s not happy but it is well written and pulls you into the world of trapped ships and otherworldly challenges. If you are looking for a story that ends with a nicely wrapped bow, stay away from Stranded. But if you want a gritty novel that will transport you to the icy, bloody, treacherous oceans, pick this one up. ( )
  bookishtexpat | May 21, 2020 |
a creepy and gripping psychological and existential horror thriller on the brutal wasteland of Arctic ice. I've read nothing like it and couldn't put it down. ( )
  ThomasPluck | Apr 27, 2020 |
Review from Tenacious Reader: http://www.tenaciousreader.com/2017/01/23/review-stranded-by-bracken-macleod/

3.5/5 Stars

No book has ever made me more afraid of the cold and ice and than Stranded. Seriously, the setting for this book brings a new and frightening definition to the word freezing. It also presents an interesting reading experience via a twist that comes about halfway through the book. The first half is a gripping thriller. One that will make you feel the frigid harsh world of the arctic.

Weather and circumstances batter the crew of the Arctic Promise from the beginning. Their situation quickly escalates from concerning to holy hell, things can’t possibly get worse. But, well, things can often get worse, and they can definitely get more strange. That’s what this unfortunate crew discovers out in the frozen arctic.

I found it incredibly hard to put this book down during the first half of the book, the story and atmosphere seized my attention from the very first page and held it unrelentingly. Until the twist. I feel like the sudden and unexpected reveal we get around the halfway point really shifts the tone of the book from gripping thriller to total WTF is going on mode. The speculative aspects of the book come out in full force and you can no longer call this just a simple thriller. Once I got over the shock, I worked my way to trying to puzzle out how everything could resolve (because it wasn’t really a straight forward survival game any more).

I almost feel like it was the suddenness of the shift/reveal that pulled me out of the story a bit more than anything else. It took a little while for me to “adjust” and really start thinking about the path the story had taken. I found once I did this, it became more intriguing. Did I love it as much as I loved that first half? Maybe not, but I also feel like its nice to be completely blindsided by a book now and then, and that’s what this one did for me.

One constant through out the book was that I enjoyed getting Noah’s perspective. A deck hand that appears to be incredibly level headed and likable, but is challenged by working with a crew that seems to neither trust or like him, not to mention the incredibly tense/hostile dynamic caused by working under his evil father-in-law. As a reader, I was quite curious why this character I seemed to like could be so unpopular with his crew mates. And seeing as how this crew has more than there share of issues to work through, crew dynamics are incredibly important.

Overall, Stranded has amazing atmosphere and tension. It is also a book that gives the reader the unexpected, throwing a twist half way through that shifts the type of story it is. I may have been really unsure about the twist at first, but I did like how it challenged me to think of possible resolutions/endings. Overall, a good read.

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  tenaciousreader | Aug 8, 2017 |
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Water, water everywhere, in the forms of ice and fog, is the element of terror in this claustrophobic horror tale of a trapped Arctic oil rig supply ship. Unpopular crew member Noah Cabot suggests calling for help after a damaging storm, but his bitter father-in-law, William Brewster, the ship’s master, presses forward into disaster....MacLeod (Mountain Home) carefully details his maritime settings, effectively placing the reader inside Noah’s growing fear by focusing on his struggle to reconcile past and present, especially the marital tragedy that complicates his attempt to save himself and his crewmates. Unfortunately, that tight focus leaves little room for anyone else to rise above melodramatic portraits of implacable foe and unswerving friend.
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"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew, which does little to ease their growing distrust of him. Dismissing Noah's warnings of worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears, revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may not be their destination. Noah leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves" --

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