Whiteout
(Survival Instincts #1). By Adriana Anders. 2020. Sourcebooks
Casablanca (ARC eBook).
As summer at the
South Pole is coming to an end, Angel Smith heads out to the supply
arch the morning of her planned departure with plans to leave the
winter-over crew of Burke-Ruhe a well-stocked kitchen. But in the
dark tunnels among preserved food and ice cores, she witnesses a
violent scene and barely escapes the attackers.
Suspicious of a
series of events that began after he collected some ice cores,
glaciologist, Ford Cooper, returns back from the ice fields only to
find the station has been abandoned and all communications and power
sources sabotaged. When he finds Angel and learns that the attackers
did not retrieve what they were looking for, the two have no choice
but to set out for another station, as they will soon become the
hunted. In the most inhospitable place on earth, Angel and Ford push
their strength and resilience to the limits in order to save
themselves and thwart the plans of the mysterious Chronos
Corporation.
From the first
chapter I didn’t want to put this story down. With twists and turns
along the way, Anders masterfully layers the tension generated not
only by ruthless acts of people, but the very elements that surround
Angel and Ford. Snow, ice, wind, frostbite, hypothermia, deep
crevasses and the disorienting whiteness the vast Antarctic landscape
presents, all works to elevate the world-building and the deepening
relationship between two people forced into survival mode. Definitely
a must for those who want an edge of your seat suspense with
chemistry that burns.
**Does not include
bonus novella by Katie Ruggle
412 pages
