I adore Sharon Bolton’s books and therefore now look out for any new releases. I found Split to be slightly different to previous novels, it was primarily psychological thriller compared to past reads. Which I always find harder to get into and heavy going. I found Split really interesting though and it’s certainly creepy! I didn’t fly through this book as I have previous but it’s incredibly well written. At around 73% everything started to fall into place & it becomes obvious what a fantastic writer Sharon Bolton is, I mean Wow; the twists and turns are insanely well done. Another brilliant read.

Wow!!! What a rollercoaster of a read and definitely not what I was expecting when I started it. I thought it was all going to be set in Antarctica and about Felicity a glaciologist escaping her past, it appears that past has found her! Just when you think you know what has happened rewind 9 months back in England before Felicity leaves, her relationship with her therapist Joe brings even more questions, who is stalking them, who is attacking homeless people and who is Felicity so scared of.
It's not until right at the very end after so many twists and turns I had to keep reminding myself to breathe!!! That we go back to Antarctica for the culmination of the book and find out exactly who Freddie, Bamber and Sean are!!!!
I defy anyone to say they can predict what is happening in this jaw dropping, tense action packed book

A stand-alone thriller which is a compelling and thrilling read with lots happening on every page. The beginning of the book is almost the climax but then you are taken back to how the story unfolds and why Felicity is on the remote island of South Georgia and why she is living in fear. The description of the landscape is amazing and you can almost imagine looking over the sea and glaciers for as far as the eye can see. A highly recommended read

What a treat an ARC of Sharon Bolton's latest, time to boast at work. And what a treat this was. I am not ashamed to say I had no clue what was going on in this book (and that is not a criticism) Starting in the beautiful landscape of South Georgia the scene is set for a switch back to the beautiful city of Cambridge. There you might feel you you know what's going on but don't kid your self. The action packed finale back in Georgia will take everything you know and throw it off an iceberg. Sheer, total enjoyment.

Felicity Lloyd is an expert in her field and lands a plum job with the British Antarctic Society on the remote island of South Georgia. However she has a troubled history and must first have some therapy to ensure she is psychologically fit to travel. Her therapist is Joe and he has grave concerns for Felicity. Joe also helps the homeless and when one of them is murdered it appears that Felicity may be involved. Felicity seems to believe she is being followed and is very frightened of events from her past.
I found this book rather disjointed and difficult to get into at the beginning but it was worth persevering as everything soon starts to come together. An interesting and adsorbing read.

No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you...

The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd.

Felicity lives in fear – fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her.

But a doctor delving into the background of Felicity and Freddie's relationship, back in Cambridge, learns that Felicity has been on the edge for a long time. Heading to South Georgia himself to try and get to her first is the only way he can think of to help her.

****

Well well well....

Anyone who knows me, will know that I am a HUGE fan of Sharon Bolton. There was the time when i was introduced to her and found myself curtsying..... the embarrassment! Anyway....

The book that has always stood out for me by Sharon Bolton is 'Little Black Lies'. The research and quality of that book, is very rarely matched. Until now.

The Split is set in a similar landscape to Little Black Lies (which was the Falkland Islands), this time it is South Georgia which lies between The Falkland Islands and Antarctica. Again, due to Sharon's incredible writing I could totally visualise the landscape and found myself completely transported there.

I'm not going to go too much into the actual story as there are things you will need to find out for yourself, and I would hate to spoil this for anyone. But safe to say, the research, writing and story itself, is of a high high standard.

Brilliant.

The Split is explosive!

I was on edge. I was terrified. I loved reading this book! There’s a level of tension that makes this one of my favourite reads this year! The twists were a little predictable but I think someone that reads less thrillers would be surprised.

A respectable 3.5/5

The first note I wrote down when planing this review of The Split was simply: uh oh.

In one sense, this perfectly encapsulates how I felt whilst reading this book. There is a real, tangible sense of foreboding throughout, and I could feel Felicity’s fear and panic. This is emphasised by 2 factors – firstly, the awesome and dangerous setting of South Georgia, an island surrounded by ginormous icebergs and other hazards too. Secondly, the fact Felicity goes through ‘fugue’ states’, meaning she cannot remember significant chunks of her life, or even parts of her day. Often, when Felicity ‘comes to’ again, she has no idea where she is, what she’s been doing, or why she can’t remember anything. All she knows is that she’s scared of Freddie and fears for her life, which was terrifying to read from her perspective.

Before leaving for South Georgia, Felicity undergoes some therapy to help her cope with her ‘fugue states’. These scenes were particularly interesting, I thought, and I enjoyed uncovering the many mysteries in Felicity’s life. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that The Split is a complex narrative with multiple layers, and plenty of twists that take the story in a completely new direction.

I did lose some interest about 2/3 of the way through, although I’m not sure why. I think the pacing slowed at this point, which I had not been been expecting.

Apart from that, though, I have no real complaints about The Split. It was terrifying and fascinating, and I would recommend to anyone on the lookout for a new thriller to read this month!

Enjoyed the read, but it just fell a bit short of being really good or really gripping. I saw the plot twists coming, which isn't necessarily a problem as they were good ones. More frustrated that both police and psychological processes all seemed a bit inplausible (you wouldn't background check a suspect until weeks after they fell on radar etc)?

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A good read.
A year ago, in desperation, Felicity Lloyd signed up for a lengthy research trip to the remote island of South Georgia. It was her only way to escape. Freddie Lloyd has served time for murder. Out at last, he's on her trail. And this time, he won't stop until he finds her.
Narration of the story is brilliant and so are its unpredictable twists that occurred one after another in the book.
Thanks to NetGalley and Orion Publishing Group Trapeze for an advanced copy..

This was an enjoyable,fast paced mystery,partly set in the atmospheric Antarctic,which provided a great background for climax.
There was real tension to as the chase was on.... 
About half way through the book,I had a fair idea of what was happening,but it didn't detract from the story,if anything,I read it faster,wanting to know if I was right,or if there were other twists to come.
I enjoyed Boltons writing,and definitely need to seek out more.

What a brilliant psychological thriller from the super talented Sharon Bolton, loved, loved, loved it, raced through it and couldn’t put it down and what more do you need than that !!
So we start in part one of the book on South Georgia island where Felicity Lloyd a geologist is working as a research scientist but Felicity is scared someone is coming for her and even in the remoteness of this isolated island it seems they may have found her and fearing for her life she decides to run.
The book then follows on in a further three parts going back in time as we find out more about Felicity and this is a complex story with lots going on racing along at fair old pace and with twists and turns making it so damn hard to put down. It’s a compulsive read and with such a good storyline, the characters are as always in a Sharon Bolton book always so well crafted and believable and to date this has got be be my favourite book of her’s so far.
So a wonderful read and something different it’s a book I can highly recommend and many thanks to the author for keeping me up late as I so needed to finish the book !!
My thanks to NetGalley and Orion Publishing Group, Trapeze for giving me the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Sharon Bolton's latest psychological thriller drops the reader surprisingly in the magnificent Antarctic and the remote island of South Georgia. It might be an awe inspiring landscape but it is also deadly and forbidding, with its glaciers, ice, turbulent and stormy sea waters and dangerous melt-waters. Resident glaciologist, Dr Felicity Lloyd is part of a research team, currently pursuing a theory on plug holes and the draining of lake water. She is feeling the strain as she awaits the last cruise ship, worried that she has not escaped far enough from her husband, Freddy, now released from Durham prison after completing a sentence for murder. She has plans to escape from Grytviken should her abusive husband turn up on the ship. She has informed her team that she will ostensibly be going to Bird Island but will instead make her way to Hurvik with its wreck The Petrel, a beached whaling ship, where a young woman, Bamber, roams with a gun in her possession.

It turns out Freddy is on the cruise ship and determined to find Felicity, irrespective of the obstacles that materialise, and he has one huge advantage, he knows her and the way she thinks. Just as you think you know the nature of what this story about, Bolton sharply swerves from this path and takes us back in time nine months, to Cambridge to a fragile and skittish Felicity, having to confront large periods of time where she has absolutely no idea what happened and what she did. She is worried someone is entering her home, there are strange journal entries and she is feeling stalked. She has an academic post at the University and is hoping to secure a job that will take her half way round the world to the Antartic, unfazed by working with a tiny team and isolated from the rest of the world, in fact it is what she feels she needs. She is seeing Dr Joe Grant, a therapist recovering from being stabbed by a young homeless woman, Ezzy Sheeran, skateboarding around the city where one rough sleeper, Bella has been murdered and another, Dora, is missing.

Once again, just when you think you know where Bolton is now taking her story, she returns us back to South Georgia, with many searching for Felicity, where she delivers another almighty twist in a chillingly thrilling climactic ending where numerous lives hang in the balance as nature demonstrates her terrifying powers for creating chaos and devastating destruction. This read was a four stars for me, until I got to the final part at which it became a wonderful five stars. This is a intense, dark and disturbing psychological thriller, tense, full of suspense and with all the trademark writing, plotting and twists for which Bolton is famed. A great read that I recommend highly to fans of Bolton and other crime fiction readers. Many thanks to Orion for an ARC.