![]() ![]() ![]() This is a great book to read about love and loss and how living in such a desolate (though beautiful) place can help you learn who you really are and what is really important in your life. To research the Antarctic background for Sun at Midnight, Rosie spent a month living with the scientists on a Bulgarian research station on Livingstone Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. ![]() It is very apparent the author did significant research into the setting of this book. When it looks like the weather may trap them for longer, everyone's true colors show and the reader avidly waits for their rescue. As Alice learns how to survive in the cold, she also learns how to survive with the other nine people in the station - who can be trusted and who to avoid. Even as a scientist who often worked alone, she was shocked at the isolation and the unpredictable weather. The main character is Alice Peel, a geologist who went to do research because her mother (a world renowned scientist) asked her to go in her place and because she needed to get away from her home due to a painful breakup with her boyfriend. The loneliness and isolation caused them to become friends very quickly but not true friends. There were only 10 people at a small research station - they were strangers to each other, from different countries and were basically going into their months at the station with no information about anyone's past. Not only was the setting beautiful but it was also stark and lonely. ![]()
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