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A review by midici
Beneath the Dark Ice by Greig Beck
2.0
*2.5 stars
I get that this book is just meant to be an entertaining thriller, but it was still pretty bad. Mostly because it did not know what sort of story it wanted to be.
It's about scientists who accidentally discover a lost city! No, a lost ecosystem and a lost city! Except it's actually about a group of elite soldiers, one of whom is an actual super soldier (though if his treatment is so effective why they don't give every soldier super powers is unexplained). And the soldiers have a grudge match with some other Russian soldiers! There is a subpar romance with the main female scientist and super soldier that is doomed to failure "because she can never truly know him." There's a lot of running away from the giant squid monster. There's several parts about one archeologist managing to determine that this city is the precursor to several ancient civilizations and was more advanced than all of them put together and he can magically read entire histories of their hieroglyphics despite the fact that they're totally new and never previously discovered.
It's a mess. I mean, I enjoyed it, kind of, but it was a mess.
I get that this book is just meant to be an entertaining thriller, but it was still pretty bad. Mostly because it did not know what sort of story it wanted to be.
It's about scientists who accidentally discover a lost city! No, a lost ecosystem and a lost city! Except it's actually about a group of elite soldiers, one of whom is an actual super soldier (though if his treatment is so effective why they don't give every soldier super powers is unexplained). And the soldiers have a grudge match with some other Russian soldiers! There is a subpar romance with the main female scientist and super soldier that is doomed to failure "because she can never truly know him." There's a lot of running away from the giant squid monster. There's several parts about one archeologist managing to determine that this city is the precursor to several ancient civilizations and was more advanced than all of them put together and he can magically read entire histories of their hieroglyphics despite the fact that they're totally new and never previously discovered.
It's a mess. I mean, I enjoyed it, kind of, but it was a mess.