A good page turner. I did keep thinking, omg this girl has gone through so much trauma! But her strength of character and will and the journey she goes on in the book is great. The author really had me a couple times, totally dismayed and wondering how Jess was ever going to survive.

I absolutely loved this book. It held my attention and had some really great twists and turns in it. Never, did I ever expect to be crying in the middle of the grocery store while as I did some shopping and listened to the audio version. I thought about this book for several days after finishing it. It is an amazing read.

I could not put this book down! If you enjoy survival novels, this is a must read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one--but I'm not sure it's for everyone.

The book starts off very fast and intense. The main character Jess has just seen her father killed and their cabin (which is in the VERY middle of nowhere Canadian woods) burned down. Save for her father's dog, she's all alone, winter is coming, and she's injured. No one is coming to rescue her. What follows is her survival and revenge story, initially told by alternating "before" and "after" segments that slowly just meld into the present.

I loved the survival aspect...her finding shelter, food, fire, ect. However, I think that some may find it a bit repetitive at times, and wish that the book would just move on to what happens next.

It's a fast read (I greedily read through it, dying to know how it was going to end).

Honestly well written and worth the read but not my cup of tea.

This book was a pretty great survival story, and very enthralling. But, if you want to read this book because of the revenge aspect, you're going to be disappointed. The way it was told in the beginning, before and after, felt kinda odd to me. It was just a bunch of backstory that was not necessary to enjoy the book. Also, that part was told as Jess journaling, and the rest of it wasn't... So, as great as the survival aspect was, the other parts drag it down to three stars for me.

survival

An excellent survival book. Most of these are just about surviving a lack of food, warmth and shelter. Jess also has to survive her mother and father’s deaths. And men who want to kill her. So the additional peril plus the help of a dog add to the story.

This started out so strong and I was so intrigued! But then it slowly started feeling a bit like a drag. The main character repeated herself A LOT, and I kept thinking "Yeah we get it! You're stranded in no man's land and yes, you will probably die. What else you got?" There just wasn't much more to this story, and because it was such a basic concept, the book grew more and more predictable. I was never surprised and often didn't even really listen to what was going on.

The story line was amazing and intriguing and I couldn't put it down.