Synopsis
"The South Pole in winter is one of the deadliest places on Earth. The seven person crew of the US Freedom Base lives alone in months of utter darkness with no hope of help or rescue. A freak storm batters the walls and threatens to expose them to the deadly cold. All they can do is wait…and pray.
The ground quakes. An alien screech rips through the night. There’s something, or someone, lurking outside. Fists bang on the walls. Each tiny crack in the base spells death by hypothermia.
Untold horrors have come to Freedom Base…and they want in!" Via Amazon
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Review
In Antarctic Ice Beasts we follow a group of seven people as they manage the U.S. science base in Antarctica. Winter is a miserable time to be stationed here and everyone is already on edge because of a massive storm. After the ground quakes with an awful screech our characters are thrown into a freezing nightmare and are now fighting for survival against creatures unknown.
Antarctic Ice Beasts was a total cover buy and it was a fun creature feature! If you love The Thing then I think you will enjoy this. While the setting is similar, the creatures involved are very different. This book had two things that I almost always love, cold places and monsters.
Some parts of this timeline were hard to follow for me so it was not a home run. I did like the monsters and the setting.
I LOVED the ending. I have not read a creature feature with an ending like it before.
I will definitely be reading more from Hunter Shea in the future. All-in-all it was a good first novella of 2023!
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