A review by astralumpia
The Terror by Dan Simmons

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

There ’s not going to be a northwest passage !!!!! 🤡 The book is at its strongest when it is about the harshness of nature and the depravity of the men (we love colonizers killing and eating one another for sport in the snow its like Jaws meets The Thing), and weakest in its treatment of women and Lady Silence. It gets a bit questionable in the depictions of the Eskimo as well. Simmons I’m begging u to get ur head out of ur dick!!! Some moments are genuinely funny (vivesected sailor Tetris) and the descriptions of the Arctic feel breathtaking, reads as pretty well researched. The Crozier Fitzjames Goodsir polycule. To quote a tumblrina, ‘the sodomy allegories got me this is my heartstopper.’ Watching the AMC adaptation to see the Positive Gay Rep lmaoooo  :-)