Description:
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape. A haunting, gripping story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.
My thoughts:
I think Dan Simmons is a talented author and I do enjoy historical novels, but this book seems to have lost something along the way. I was hoping for more horror and more excitement. "The Terror" detailed the expedition across the Artic and how these men were stuck in the ice. The first 300 pages showed promise but then it teetered off. I didn’t mind that each chapter was from a different person’s point of view, but I didn’t feel for the characters to really care about them. I lost interest until the last 100 pages when it became intriguing again. Nine hundred pages plus, was a lot to read but not riveting enough to recommend.
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