Synopsis: Symone, a 14 year old girl from the UK, is obsessed with Antarctic exploration. She has even taken Titus Oates, one of the many explorers whose life was claimed by the cruel and unforgiving antarctic wilderness, as her very own imaginary friend. The only person in Sym's life that seems to take any interest in her, besides Titus, is her Uncle Victor, who is a long time family friend. Since her father died Uncle Victor has taken on a father type figure in her life. The story begins as Uncle Victor unexpectedly takes Sym on a vacation to Paris, only to discover that her Uncle has other, very dangerous and exciting plans for her- a trip to Antarctica!
Review: It was harder to read than most books, mostly because I did not like the main character- in fact I did not like an of the characters. But in this story I do not think any of the characters are supposed to be liked. Throughout the whole book you know something bad is going to happen, you can feel it coming, you don't know what but you know it is going to be really bad; this was probably the only thing that kept me reading. I did not care for the characters as I said before, the plot was unbelievable and unrealistic, and the ending I think was unsatisfactory. Symone herself was a hard character to take the story from; she was so apathetic and indifferent and lacked passion until it was literally forced on her.
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