Author: Jessica Huntley
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Date Published: July 27, 2025
First, I want to apologize to all of the chores I didn’t get done, because I couldn’t put this book down!
Bonnie and Stephan are hiking the Swiss Alps on a mission. Bonnie is on a quest, which is revealed later in the book. Stephan is an experienced hiker and Bonnie is a long-distance runner who has spent the last year training for the hike. Somehow, they get far off track. And then it snows.
I don’t know why, but I’m drawn to books that take place in snowstorms, even though they make me feel claustrophobic. And this book becomes doubly claustrophobic when Bonnie and Stepan seek shelter in a cottage with a crazy woman. Did I say crazy? I meant psychotic. But there’s a history there, and soon hers and Bonnie’s paths will intersect in the most awful way. I love how the characters develop under the author’s skilled hand, until none of them end up how, or where, they started out.
This book was like a cross between Hansel and Gretel and Stephen King’s MIsery. In a snowstorm. With lying husbands. And I enjoyed every minute of it.
Thanks to @jessicahuntley @netgalley @inkubatorbooks and @booksprouts for an advance reading copy for my reading pleasure! Background photo courtesy @annapodraczky on @unsplash
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