On the day her dad is buried, twenty-eight year old Clarissa Iverton finds out that he wasn't her biological father. Her mother had disappeared when she was 14 without a trace and her fiance reveals to her that he's known about her father for years. Needless to say, Clarissa's life is turned upside down. In reaction, she takes off to "Lapland" - the upper reaches of Scandinavia in the Arctic Circle in search of her real father. Clarissa ends up at the Ice Hotel where a life-changing secret is uncovered that will turn her life upside-down again.
So I read this book really fast and it was a pretty amazing (which is why I gave it 4 stars) but at the same time, Clarissa made me so mad! I just couldn't understand her actions in the end! She was such an angry woman (understandably) but what she ended up doing wasn't justified with how she had been treated by her own parents. To me, she was repeating a vicious cycle (which is why I could give the book 1 star). She didn't seem to learn from other's mistakes. In the end though, after thinking about it, Clarissa's actions were reasonable and human. Certainly worth your time.
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