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A review by qu33nofbookz
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
3.0
At the edge of northern Alaska a team of scientists are on a sponsored study of global warming near a glacier covered mountain/volcano. They make a startling discovery inside of a recently uncovered cave. A prehistoric animal, they think is a saber-tooth tiger, frozen in glacier ice. Upon returning to the military base they are using as a lab they find a group of native people telling them that they are in danger and need to leave. They ignore them and call in their find. The group sponsoring the study begins sending in a ton of people for a film crew. Turns out they signed all their rights away for anything they find and the film company wants it. They want to document not only the state of the find but they want to cut the creature out of the mountain, thaw it out and show it off on live tv. But it turns out that their version of documentary is like shooting a fictional film and everyone is rubbing everyone else the wrong way from the start. But on the day of the unveiling of thawed creature they find it's missing and the film bosses think it's sabotage. As the day wears on and a storm settles in they find that the creature isn't as dead as it should be and they are trapped with it. Also it isn't any creature known to man... Now it's a race to kill it before it kills all of them and get back to civilization.
While the story was good and the science behind it was interesting and believable and the fact that Mr. Jeremy Logan is an active character this time that's the only good parts. There are way too many characters to keep track of at first until they start getting killed off. Then the story pov starts splintering between three groups of people a quarter of the way through. Last is besides the fact that this takes place on land and mostly above ground instead of under the sea with a creature instead of a civilization this is pretty much a carbon copy of the first book in the series. It's like the author came up with a formula for a novel and is basing all of them on that exact same formula just changing the setting or object of interest. The military are smarter but a film crew take place of the protesters and now everyone is the same as the last book.
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it's either some kind of crazy mutation that doesn't leave fossils, a spirit/god like animal or Jeremy Logan's theory, an alien/aliens pet that got left behind when aliens visited (like when they dropped off their weapons at the bottom of our ocean in the last book)While the story was good and the science behind it was interesting and believable and the fact that Mr. Jeremy Logan is an active character this time that's the only good parts. There are way too many characters to keep track of at first until they start getting killed off. Then the story pov starts splintering between three groups of people a quarter of the way through. Last is besides the fact that this takes place on land and mostly above ground instead of under the sea with a creature instead of a civilization this is pretty much a carbon copy of the first book in the series. It's like the author came up with a formula for a novel and is basing all of them on that exact same formula just changing the setting or object of interest. The military are smarter but a film crew take place of the protesters and now everyone is the same as the last book.