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2022: Freeze is to be the reality TV event of the year…..
2022: Freeze is to be the reality TV event of the year…..
Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize.
The show is Tori Matsuka’s baby. After years working her way up the ladder, she’s finally launching her own production company with Frozen Out, and the late nights, the debts, the strain on her relationship will all be worthwhile. Everything is riding on the next twelve days. For camerawoman Dee, it’s a chance to start again after the tragedy that tanked her undercover journalism career. Not even Tori, her oldest friend, knows the full truth of why Dee left her previous job, and she plans to keep it that way.
But as errors and mishaps mount on set, tempers among the cast and crew start to fray. And when one of the contestants is found dead, only Dee realises the death wasn’t natural – and from what she’s seen from behind the camera, it won’t be the last. As the Arctic ice closes in around them and all chance of escape is cut off, it becomes clear that although the world outside wants them dead, it’s the secrets inside the ship that might cost them their live
A reality show in the back of beyond
Imagine going to a place like this for a reality show….
“And it is truly breathtaking. Not only the ice sheet that the ship is moored against, stretching for miles. Or the sheer size of the mountain and the one behind it and the one behind that, their swatches of rockface that have egvaded the coverage of snow impossibly black. Or even the endless fathoms of icy waers to the starboard side, dotted with anarchic irregular ice sructures floating silently alongside us.”
“It’s the emptiness. It is oppressive, terrifying, absolute. We’ve travelled maybe fifteen, twenty miles, but it’s as desolate and remote as the face of Mars. White, white, white, everywhere, and the mirror-stillness of the water. Nothing makes a sound.”
TheBookTrail’s bookreview of Freeze – Kate Simants
Destination: Artic Author/guide: Kate Simants Departure Time: 2022
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