This was a really good book! it was a scary book with real issues, like abuse and climate change, and showed some real dangerous things that could happen. It was entertaining, but it was a scary dark read at the same time.


Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!

What an odd book. I'm on a huge sci-fi kick now, and even though this is on a few "classics" lists, I'm surprised it's not more well-known. I think it's best to go in without knowing much about the story. The only thing I'll say is that the setting is unlike anything I've ever come across. It's apocalyptic, and believable, and creepy, and cold. Give it a go.

Gripping, relentless, and utterly nightmarish, this prose reads like a stream of unfiltered terror—so intense it’s almost impossible to process, yet equally impossible to look away. The plot? A desperate, globe-spanning rescue mission racing against the inevitability of an ice-driven apocalypse. Or maybe it’s a chase. That’s the catch: everything is layered, ambiguous, blurred by subjectivity and dream logic—everything except the ice. The ice is absolute, unstoppable, immune to denial or fantasy.

Books like this are hard to pull off, walking a razor-thin line between brilliance and chaos. But this one? It grabs hold and doesn’t let go. I was mesmerized, not just by its raw verbal intensity but by its moral weight—a stark, urgent exploration of what it means to be human, of the destruction we’ve inflicted on each other and the planet. A rare, haunting masterpiece.