The Terror: A Novel

though not so bad as to undercut the rest of the story Yosef Negasi Finished the book just the other day.First and foremost, kudos to Simmons for the amount of research and homework he had to perform in order to make this novel possible. The detail and historic underpinnings of this story are top-notch. Obviously the book is based on a true event, yet having had known that I wasn't prepared for its potent authenticity.The . Amazon Customer said Nasty, Brutish, and Short. Look, I generally try to avoid hyperbole while writing a review, but I might as well just say it: as historical drama, as horror, as psychological thriller, as character study (of Captain Crozier), this book is the best experience I've had in a long, long time. I'd never read any of Simmons other work; having heard only that he has a tendency to master wha. I hated to have it end Once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. It was well written and interesting. I hated to have it end. It's a big novel but It was worth every page. No one will ever really know what happened to Franklin and his ships but Simmons wrote an interesting tale of the crews of theTerror And Erebus.

From Publishers Weekly Simmons's lumbering seafaring adventure-cum-ghost story is solidly manned by Vance, who invests his reading with a vinegary tang perfectly suitable for the nautical setting. . Vance enjoys declaiming Simmons's characters' speeches in booming voices, as would be appropriate for the book's setting, but those listeners residing in apartments, or with babies, would be advised to keep the sound turned firmly down to avoid any potential noise complaints. Simmons's novel mingles genres, alternating between horror and maritime action, and Vance uses tone and pitch to indicate the story's joints and digressions. Working with characters who express themselves lustily, Vance avails himself of the opportunity to chew the scenery and makes the most of it. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Vance derives special pleasure from the opportunity to dive into the book's mixture of King's English, Cockney, Scottish and Irish

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. 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. A haunting, gripping story based on actual historical events, The Terror will chill you to your core.. The men on board