Book info

• Title Whiteout
• Author R. S. Burnett
• Year 2025
• Genre Thriller

My name is Rachael, and I’m on a solo Antarctic expedition. But a month ago I lost contact with basecamp. No radio. No sat phones. Just static. Only one thing has reached me: a BBC World Service broadcast, reporting a nuclear strike on the UK. I’m safe for fourteen more days in my little hut at the bottom of the world. But I can’t stay here forever, I have to find out what’s happened. Even if there’s no one left to tell.

Thoughts

I loved this, read it so, so quickly. The idea is chilling, no pun intended. Being stuck as potentially the last person alive in such an inhospitable environment. As soon as the character revealed they had been tormenting the other one, I realised that it was all a setup, but the rest of the twists and turns were a real surprise, and it’s such a brilliant thriller that I couldn’t wait to get to the end and find out how it all worked out.

Rating: 4 / 5