PositiveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteBold and frightening, The North Water offers many satisfactions and little comfort. Ice, wind, snow and water, whales, sharks and polar bears all menace its characters, but fellow humans prove the most dangerous ... Some scenes will remind current readers of The Revenant ... Readers of Cormac McCarthy know that beautiful writing and bloody murder go together as well now as they did in Homer, and Ian McGuire proves it.
