Ice Out, Susan Speranza
Ice Out, Susan Speranza
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Ice Out
A Novel

Author: Susan Speranza

Narrator: Peg Barcelo

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Susan Speranza

Published: 04/17/2022

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Fantasy


Synopsis

A powerful tale of one woman’s desperate journey from grief to acceptance and forgiveness after an accident shatters her life.Francesca Bodin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the country with her husband, Ben, and their four-year-old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben escapes, leaving her and Addie behind to die. Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. Desperate to help her daughter, she struggles to emerge from the icy waters and follows them. Once she enters the forest, however, she finds herself trapped in a sinister dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden from her, and where she encounters a group of women who, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When they have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them.

Reviews

This is an amazing well written story of a young woman who forms a new life far from her family only to realize too late that she had been adjusting her reality to fit her narrative. The lyrical prose allows the reader to understand the main character's perception of reality, which leads to a brutal......more

Goodreads review by Ruben

I don't often give two stars but this was really not very good. It went from mediocre to extremely tedious to batshit crazy at the end. The premise sounded alright: a snowmobile accident has left a wife and daughter under the ice struggling to get out while the husband cowardly saves himself and run......more

Goodreads review by Maren

Ice Out is the story of an almost idyllic life for Francesca and Ben in his preferred remote Vermont lakeside property. While Francesca is a city person and loves her chamber music group and her close family in the city, she adjusts and is soon so in thrall with the natural wonder of their home that......more

Goodreads review by Book

Francesca is a music teacher and professional flutist living the dream life in Vermont. She lives with her husband Ben, their four-year-old daughter Addie and their dog Cruz. Francesca starts from the present and goes back to the past, telling her story. Her narration takes place during a dramatic a......more