The year in which this book is based is 1910,
and the place in which it is situated is Giro (100 miles north of the Arctic
Circle). It starts off in a log cabin with the main character Sig, waiting
for his sister and step-mother to return. He is all alone apart from the
dead body of his father who froze to death that morning. This is a great way
in which to start the book because you want to know where the sister and
step-mother are, and why the father froze to death.
Before long a mysterious and shady stranger
starts knocking at the door of the log cabin. The stranger has
some left-over business with Sig's father and he is not going to leave
until it is finished. As the day carries on, the stranger starts to become
more and more frightening until Sig starts to realise that maybe his only
chance of survival lies with a revolver hidden away in the storeroom.
This book had me gripped all the way through:
there was always something you wanted to know, and because of this it forced
you to read on. I also enjoyed this book because Sig is faced with many
impossible situations and he has to find a way around them, and that is what
happens everyday in life – you have to make choices that could change the
way you live forever. I would rate
this book 8/10.
