An ARC of this book was provided to me by Publerati. The opinions are my own and freely given.

I have a minor infatuation, or you could say obsession with Canada, although I am cold all the time, so I don't think I would last very long. However, when I got this book, I was intrigued. I have a fear of water, but the fear of being trapped under the ice is right up there. "Guy" ventures to The Floe, known as The Edge, in the Arctic with nothing but ice and water around, the sun never setting and nothing but seals for company.

He has been left all alone with limited supplies and limited wilderness skills (when it comes to the Arctic.) With no track of time, not being able to tell day from night, he makes the most of the situation he has, hoping that a rescue crew is on the way. There is a point when frustration gets to him. He is worried about snow blindness, and various injuries have occurred. He has conversations with many animals.

Trigger warning, there is a part in which he tries to work up the courage to commit suicide. When the desperation gets to be too much for him. There is also a graphic scene with a polar bear, in which Guy has to defend himself.

The village in Nunavut is very descriptive. I appreciated reading about the culture and beliefs of the native people. This was not a very fast-paced book, but it held my attention. Unfortunately, I felt like the end fell just a little flat. Without giving away too much, the epilogue speaks to his mental health, so I feel like that should have been addressed more. It ws only the last chapter that I found lacking.

Thank you to Murray Lee and Publerati. ( )

This was an interesting book. I'm torn about what to think about--I certainly didn't love it, but I didn't hate it and the ending was actually pretty good. But if nothing else, it kept me on my toes! Thanks to @bookishfirst and #publerati for the early copy!
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Quick recap: White guy historian/explorer decides to visit The Edge (basically the edge of land in the Arctic) because he pretended he'd been and someone calls him out. Things go horribly wrong and he finally has an adventure of his own like the type he writes about.
*This does a really good job at portraying an unlikeable character. Nothing about the main character is sugar coated, he's a terrible person throughout. But it did make him interesting. I was 100% rooting for his ice floe to sink but I did find him intriguing.
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I liked the adventure aspect, what the main character does for survival (which he happens to know because that's his life work -- writing about how others survived or didn't in the arctic.) I liked the Inuit mythology that was woven throughout. I also liked the added twist of the 24-hour sun and how that messed with his head. I was not sure about the talking animals at first, but they definitely grew on me.
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My negatives were that it was a very slow start--the first third of the book is irrelevant for the plot and only needed for character development--and the fact that I wanted the main character to be eaten by a seal. (But that shows I was connecting with the book at least!) ( )