"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex ...
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex worker to the elite is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group meant to service the men in camp-but her mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge. In return, she'll receive a home for her displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself. Upon arrival at Camp Zero, she is named Rose. Rose quickly secures the trust of her target, but in the camp, everyone has an agenda, and her alliances begin to shift. Through skillfully braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military brigade struggling for survival at a climate research station, the fate of Camp Zero and its inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo. An electrifying page-turner where nothing is as it seems, Camp Zero cleverly explores how the intersection of gender, class, and migration will impact who and what will survive in a warming world"--
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I was really excited to get an ARC for Camp Zero, and it was at the top of my anticipated TBR pile for ages. I've been enjoying the 'Frostpunk' game series at the moment and the idea of a post-apocalyptic camp in eternal winter really appealed.
The story is told through three perspectives - there's Rose; an escort who has started to work in a newly built camp in the North, Grant; a teacher who has also joined the camp to escape his family's reputation and the ladies of The White Alice Camp. There isn't a notion of time or place with these perspectives though, and we are unsure if the timelines are running together or not. We quickly learn that Rose and Grant are in the same time and place as they meet each other but it is a good 90% of the way through the book before we learn how the White Alice storyline fits into any of the narrative.
This was my main issue with Camp Zero, I was expecting either a pacy apocalyptic thriller - a race against the elements to survive, or perhaps a character driven psychological thriller full of secrets and tension and betrayal. Sadly, Camp Zero seems to have none of these elements. There isn't really much of a plot, what is there is mostly either flashback or build up which leads nowhere. Annoyingly, the book then also ends on a cliff-hanger to what would seem like a much more interesting and action-packed story.
Grants flashbacks are interesting and heart-breaking in places, but I didn't really feel much for any of the characters as a whole. The blooms are never really explored in much detail beyond broad brush-stokes and the same can be said of the construction workers. At the end the book then shines a spotlight on characters which you have initially dismissed as background characters because they didn't have much relevance to the plot.
Overall, Camp Zero was just a lot of build-up with zero payoff, with vague characters and very little plot. Thank you to NetGalley & John Murray Press for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
