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allaboutfrodo 's review for:
Deep Freeze
by Michael C. Grumley
Rounded up from 2.5 stars.
Trigger warning: test subjects (animals and people).
I have not read anything by Michael C. Grumley before. With Deep Freeze, I was promised a “fantastic thriller.” A “fast-paced juggernaut of a story.” A “gripping and fascinating story.” It was none of these. What I got was a snooze fest setting up, I guess, a series that may or may not be fantastic and thrilling.
Set in a dystopian near future, 100 pages in literally nothing had happened. (Aside from the bus crash in the first nine pages.) We knew about a deeply mysterious government (?) experiment. We’d met good guys, bad guys, and gray guys. The man who was frozen and unfrozen still knew almost nothing. He was also deeply mysterious. The test subject animals were also mysterious – and also dying one by one. For an action thriller, there was not much action and not many thrills. Eventually people started running/getting shot at/getting killed. There was not one character I would have missed if they had been killed (aside from the dog).
I found Deep Freeze very unoriginal. The shady bad guys who have ways to find you no matter where you are. The shady bad guys with their ulterior ulterior motives. The ex-military old friend with places to hide and people who can help. Yawn.
Deep Freeze is an overlong setup novel. It reads like a prequel written years after a wildly successful adventure series. There are so many unanswered questions, and an ending that suggests we already know what comes next. Everything about this book, I found deeply unsatisfying.
I read an advance reader copy of Deep Freeze.
Trigger warning: test subjects (animals and people).
I have not read anything by Michael C. Grumley before. With Deep Freeze, I was promised a “fantastic thriller.” A “fast-paced juggernaut of a story.” A “gripping and fascinating story.” It was none of these. What I got was a snooze fest setting up, I guess, a series that may or may not be fantastic and thrilling.
Set in a dystopian near future, 100 pages in literally nothing had happened. (Aside from the bus crash in the first nine pages.) We knew about a deeply mysterious government (?) experiment. We’d met good guys, bad guys, and gray guys. The man who was frozen and unfrozen still knew almost nothing. He was also deeply mysterious. The test subject animals were also mysterious – and also dying one by one. For an action thriller, there was not much action and not many thrills. Eventually people started running/getting shot at/getting killed. There was not one character I would have missed if they had been killed (aside from the dog).
I found Deep Freeze very unoriginal. The shady bad guys who have ways to find you no matter where you are. The shady bad guys with their ulterior ulterior motives. The ex-military old friend with places to hide and people who can help. Yawn.
Deep Freeze is an overlong setup novel. It reads like a prequel written years after a wildly successful adventure series. There are so many unanswered questions, and an ending that suggests we already know what comes next. Everything about this book, I found deeply unsatisfying.
I read an advance reader copy of Deep Freeze.