I just need my space horror to have a little more umph. 

I absolutely adored Dead Silence and greatly enjoyed Ghost Station, but Cold Eternity just didn’t do it for me. I’m not the hugest fan of horror that burns slower in the first place, but this one burned very slow, in my opinion, and the payoff at the end just didn’t compensate enough for all of that waiting and anticipating. 

The book also felt a little too long for the plot and so the pacing felt sketchy in places, with some scenes seeming repetitive in a way that didn’t feel like a stylistic choice or one congruent to the way the story was being told. (What I am trying to get across are that there are scenes that are indeed repetitive in nature because that’s part of the plot and the story, but there are also scenes that feel just simply repetitive in the way filler scenes feel repetitive.)

Barnes’ worldbuilding continues to astound, though, with a spooky, hulking ship that feels not unlike an allegorical symbol of Dante’s nine circles, leaving our protagonist, Halley, to ponder the sins of the world alone in a state of limbo. 

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