This could have been a good adventure book, or a good mystery/fantasy, but the need to explain things ruins the effect. This wasn't on my radar, and I probably wouldn't have picked this one up, so I'm very thankful to King that he pointed me toward this book. The letters act as chapters and occasionally feature editor's notes which usually reference the letters' dates or conditions (how worn etc. There were a couple of moments when I thought, oh this is going to go down a super preachy road and end up being a convenient, "God is the answer to everything" message.

The mountain also unexpectedly reunites Harold with former wife Dr Naoka Tanaka stirring vivid memories of the traumatic event that led to their parting years before. Nicholas Binge is a bestselling author of speculative thrillers, literary science-fiction, and horror. Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it for the intrigue, the action, and the climb. They’re ideal settings, in other words, for horror-tinged speculative thrillers, including Nicholas Binge’s “Ascension. Also side note, as an anthropology major I was happy to see an anthropologist character but why does media always gotta make the anthropologist creepy lol.If author Nicholas Binge wasn't a household name before, he most certainly should be after this shimmering jewel of a novel. Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself - what it means to live and die, to yearn and strive, and all the spaces in between. I should never have gone past the Kindle sample for Ascension, but I just want to read sci-fi so bad that I told myself not to be a snob and give it a chance. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The story is paced well and Binge does an amazing job of slowly increasing that sense of unease and paranoia as the expedition climbs higher. Ascension features some excellent character creations and these are brought to life by Harry's descriptions and impressions regarding personalities and motives. Pero quizás lo mejor de este libro no es la historia en si misma, sino el trasfondo detrás de los personajes y la caracterización de los mismos. We learn in the first chapter that they barely interacted and now he’s suddenly addressing her as if she’s been privy to random life events of his?Behaviors and emotional status of the group become erratic as they make their way to Camp 2, 3 and beyond. There were certainly some really tense, creepy moments and more than a few that sent a shiver down my spine. Tenemos científicos, maestros en sus propias campos y gente preparada para proteger e ir a los límites. It's so well-paced and beautifully written that it didn't relinquish its grip on me until the very last word.