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    The Starlight Claim

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    Fast-paced, evocative, and intensely suspenseful, Tim Wynne-Jones's latest psychological thriller finds a teenager setting his wits against the frigid wilderness and a menacing crew of escapees.

    Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared near their families' camp in a boat accident, Nate is still haunted by nightmares. He'd been planning to make the treacherous trek to the remote campsite with a friend - his first time in winter without his survival-savvy father, Burt. But when his friend gets grounded, Nate secretly decides to brave the trip solo in a journey that's half pilgrimage, half desperate hope he will find his missing friend when no one else could. What he doesn't expect to find is the door to the cabin flung open and the camp occupied by strangers: three men he's horrified to realize have escaped from a maximum-security prison. Snowed in by a blizzard and with no cell signal, Nate is confronted with troubling memories of Dodge and a stunning family secret, and realizes that his survival now depends on his wits as much as his wilderness skills. As things spiral out of control, Nate finds himself dealing with questions even bigger than who gets to leave the camp alive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781978665613
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    • 5/5
      Nate returns to Ghost Lake, the site of many summers with his now-dead friend Dodge. It's deep winter in Canada, there's a storm coming, and at the last minute his companion bails on him. Still, Nate feels he has to make the trip to honor his dead friend and figure out what really happened. So, Nate lies to his parents and sets out. He knows all the tricks of winter survival... what could go wrong? Plenty! A continuation of the novel Maestro.... plot is crackin' but some of the dialogue seems stilted and the action is over-packed (for this reader). Flashbacks to previous summers also may be hard tor the nonsophisticated reader.
    • 4/5
      Without giving away too much, I'll just say the main character's reason for being at his parent's cabin was well-reasoned. His reaction and actions were pretty good too. His interaction with his friend was a little overdone in my opinion, but was needed for the plot I suppose. It's a great YA book and I'm interested in tracking down the prequel that apparently starred the main character's dad and was published about 20 years prior.
    • 5/5
      A huge snow storm rolling into northern Ontario isn't the biggest challenge facing Nate as he ventures into the woods. His adventure to find out what happened to his best friend quickly goes awry. The Starlight Claim is a solid thriller, and Nate has to adapt and meet the unknown challenges to survive.Wynne-Jones's writing moves quickly and the characters are well-developed. Nate's world is clearly present-day, but placing it in the north woods means its shorn of modern conveniences. Nate has to find his way with his wits and his own gumption. The dangers he faces are told with interspersed flashbacks of his friend.I liked how Nate's character developed while he simultaneously uncovers - or is more aware - of family and friends over the arc of the book. It is interesting to watch his growing self-confidence. I also liked that there are several threads at the end that are not neatly tied off.The foreshadowing makes some of the plot seem a bit obvious but that doesn't diminish it's strength as a thriller. I also appreciated how the author broached some topics obliquely - like First Nations racism - so that older or more careful readers will get more out of the text when they're ready.This would be a great book for a junior high library or YA public library collection. I think a lot of early teen Scouts would probably also enjoy it as a gift.
    • 4/5
      Wynne-Jones' book The Maestro, published in 1995 featured Burl and his father Cal Crow. In this book, Burl is now the father of sixteen-year-old Nate, forming an intergenerational sequel, although it is not necessary to have read the first book. Nate's plan for a solo visit to the family's lakeside camp in northern Ontario is disrupted when he finds escaped convicts there. I can recommend this as a fine example of a winter survival thriller that many teens would enjoy.
    • 3/5
      Nate and his best friends have been planning a trip up to the cabin for months, but not one of them is dead and the other cannot come. Nate decides to go it alone, and in the process finds himself in the middle of a prison escape. When he arrives at the cabin, there are men already there and he is now in danger. Nate must fight for his survival in the cold months and try not to be found.This was a very interesting book. Nate is still tormented by losing his best friend in a horrible boating accident and sees him in nightmares and hallucinations pretty often. He feels somewhat responsible for his friends death and cannot shake that feeling. There was a lot of these hallucinations -come to life in the story and it was a bit weird but it put some things into perspective I guess. I found the survival of Nate through this ordeal with the prison escapees to be a pretty good story but the addition of the PTSD over the friend was a bit much. It feels overly sophisticated for what it needs to be, then again I have not read anything else by this author and that might just be his style. Final thoughts - I think this was a good adventure, a bit of a coming of age tale, of a boy in the wilderness trying to survive, but done in a way that is a bit more complex. I think Young Adult readers will be the right age group for this one, especially those that like books about the outdoors.
    • 3/5
      Nate is supposed to be with his friends, Paul and Dodge, for their first (without parents) trek into the wilderness in winter to their family campsites. The problem is Paul isn’t coming and Dodge is dead. Nate is haunted by the tragic death of his friend (near the campsite), whose body has yet to be recovered. A part of Nate feels like he must make this journey to the campsite to find Dodge, but he finds other, more deadly surprises waiting for him! Talk about a survival tale; the terror is real. What slows down this story is the flashbacks of Dodge. I understand it is to build development to the relationship between these two characters, which of course, is needed. But maybe a more consistent way in presenting the flashback would help or a different font so the reader would know when the flashback was occurring.
    • 4/5
      I received this book from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers but that is in no way influencing my review. I read this book straight through in one sitting simply because I wanted to know what was going to happen. Here's what I can tell you without ruining the book at all. Nate Crow had a best friend named Dodge Hoebeek and the two families had summer cabins fairly close together. One late fall, Dodge's dad decides, against the advice of almost everyone, that he is going to try to get a fridge up to his camp. Nate is invited along for the adventure, but his father refuses to let him go, claiming that the entire idea is hairbrained and much too dangerous. Turns out his dad was right because the Hoebeek's all died wile attempting to transport the fridge. The trouble is that Dodge's body was never found so when the story starts, Nate is planning a trip back to the camps with his friend Paul... and at some point in their trip, he intends to look for Dodge's dead body. Paul, it turns out, can't go due to his attendance at a party the previous evening, but Nate lies to his parents and says he is going with Paul when really he is travelling by himself. When he gets to the camp, Nate is very annoyed to discover that his family's camp is occupied. His annoyance turns to concern and then fear when he eventually pieces together that the camp is occupied by two criminals from a recent prison break.This story flows easily and quickly. There were a few things that I figured out, but there were also enough surprises to keep me interested.
    • 4/5
      A fast read although the foreshadowing of events was too clear. It was easy to see what was coming. Also, some things were left unresolved. Still it was a fast read that was somewhat thrilling despite its predictability. I liked Nate. He was a strong and intelligent character who grew considerably as he fought to survive. The bond he shared with his friend Dodge provided emotional impact and backstory for what might otherwise have been purely a story of survival. Teenagers who like books about survival and friendship would probably enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      Teen Nate is responsible enough to meet his dad's expectations and is allowed to travel to his family's cabin in late winter with a friend. What would have been a joyous rite of passage has become doubt filled because of the apparent death of a mutual friend. Life spins out of control as Nate decides to make the trip alone, the cabin is taken over by convicts, and winter dominates the scene.
    • 4/5
      Excellent young adult novel of survival in the Canadian wilderness. An young man, supposedly with a friend, returns to his parent's camp on a large lake in northern Ontario. The year before, his best friend had disappeared when the small boat holding his father and brother evidently overturned in the lake, killing all by hypothermia. The body of Dodge, his best friend, was never found. Having declined an invitation to the lake, Nate was wracked with guilt, and wanted to return to the lake in the winter. When he arrives at his parents' cabin on the lake after a long snowshoe slog, he finds that murderous criminals who had escaped from the jail, had taken over the cabins, and were waiting for their friends to come take them away by helicopter. Nate had to work out what to do to survive in the cold, high snow, snow storms and crooks who had noting to lose in getting out. The suspense is well developed, and the tension mounts. To work out his problems, Nate imagines what his dead friend, Dodge, would advise to get out and to escape. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      I don't often read YA but I was intrigued. The author kept me interested with this well-paced tale of a young man's struggle, against criminals and nature, to find out the truth about his friend. Glad I took a chance on this.
    • 4/5
      A great young adult mystery and adventure novel. It tells the story of coming of age, finding one's family history and own inner strength in the face of hardships.
    • 5/5
      Survival and freedom, both mental and physical, are tested to their limit in this quickly paced thriller deep in the woods in Northern Ontario.Noah has found himself struck by two tragedies as his friend's family dies in a tragic accident while his friend Dodge, is presumed to have died as well but his body was never found. Determined to figure out what happened to him, Noah finds a way to sneak out by himself back to the cabin in the winter to begin his search. Only upon arriving there does he realize that he's not so alone, and that the mysterious figures holding camp in his friend's cabin are not out to make new friends. Using the skills taught to him by his father and his wits, Noah has to find a way to survive in more ways then one.Much of YA literature out there deals with the apocalyptic and while elements of this are woven into the fabric of this story, Tim Wynne-Jones does great job of adding thriller elements that transcend young adult literature and make this read often like the best of the adult thriller writers out there. Story was briskly told and did a great job of providing a level of realism to the entire story, as Nate's journey to survive seemed remarkably credible. This is one book you definitely flip the pages quickly in, and it was certainly not hard to get sucked right in! And while this story is perfectly set up for a 12-18 crowd, adults will also find a lot to enjoy with this coming of age tale hidden among the machinations of an effective thriller!Thanks goes to LibraryThing for this Early Reviewers ARC edition of The Starlight Claim and for the ability to give honest feedback on it.
    • 4/5
      This young adult survival tale takes the reader to a remote cabin in Northern Ontario, where sixteen year old Nate Crow has ventured alone. When he arrives at his campsite he sees that it has been taken over by escaped convicts. Nate has to use his wits to survive the frigid temperatures while avoiding the criminals. I enjoyed reading this book because Nate was a self sufficient yet unassuming and vulnerable young man. Memories of his wise father and his foolhardy best friend help him find his way. This is a good read for young folks.
    • 4/5
      Teen Nate is responsible enough to meet his dad's expectations and is allowed to travel to his family's cabin in late winter with a friend. What would have been a joyous rite of passage has become doubt filled because of the apparent death of a mutual friend. Life spins out of control as Nate decides to make the trip alone, the cabin is taken over by convicts, and winter dominates the scene.