I received this book as an eARC from Compass and Fern, LLC, and I have to say, this absolutely exceeded my expectations. 

The best way that I can describe this book, or compare it to something, would be to the Search and Rescue Woods stories in the subreddit nosleep, or maybe, in the same vein, the stories in the SCP Foundation archive. Essentially, the story follows a team of researchers looking to study a glacier deep in the Sierra mountains, and as soon as they enter, they begin to experience anomalous activity. 

This book was an utter delight for me, and will be for fans of horror, specifically situational horror, or that kind of backpacking horror that forest/remote settings tend to provide. I enjoyed the way that Harian blended multiple storylines together into something cohesive, as well as challenging our typical ideas of time and space. I definitely experienced some dread as these mysteries were unraveling, which is absolutely what I’m looking for in a horror/thriller. The only reason this book isn’t a 5-star rating for is that I felt like all of the action was concentrated pretty heavily in the middle half of the book, making the last 25% of it feeling a little bit like a resolution, instead of that high-intensity action that the middle of the novel contained. Considering this is a series, I would’ve loved for it to end on a punch-you-in-the-gut kind of action, but it fell just a little flat if that. 

All of that being said, I GREATLY enjoyed this book, and I look forward to its release in January!