Joseph Phillips’s Reviews > The Terror > Status Update

Holy smokes, this is a good story. I was hoping for carnage to winnow the crews of the Erebus and Terror as answer to a plot seemingly stuck in a strange, disjointed narrative, and got it. A masterful grasp of detail and character development ignited and rages across the ice-bound Arctic setting of this barn burner. The last 300 pages were on fire.

The hellscape of 19th century women's characters, described from the point of view of various males in their capacity to satisfy sexual urges, thoughts, and embrace of mores was itself a sort of horrible wasteland. I as much wanted the men to die on the ice as I wanted their egos trampled in their societal settings. Maybe that's the point, to NOT sympathize with any of the characters.
It just drags on and on.