The dog does not die.

I was super into Whiteout, and really looking forward to the next installment in this series.  I love a romantic suspense that's not just "someone wants to murder the girl," and the overarching plot line is decidedly not that.

Uncharted, unfortunately, just didn't work for me as well as Whiteout.  Like a lot of other reviewers, I felt like their relationship was second to their survival -- it was a lot of falling into cold bodies of water and then waiting to warm up.  And unlike Whiteout, it didn't seem all that impossible that they'd survive?  I mean, I am on the record as never wanting to sleep somewhere lower on the amenities rating than a Motel 6, so take this with a grain of salt, but all they had to do was keep moving, as opposed to Whiteout where they're literally in ANTARCTICA.

My secondary issue is that Elias, our hero, has been set up to take the fall for what is described as "the largest massacre in America since 9/11."  It's probably more a timing flaw than a book flaw, but reading this on the heels of the US pulling out of Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I could have done without that.  

Anyways, this wasn't it for me.  BUT, I really like Adriana's work overall and I am very invested in this series, so I will of course be picking up the second one.

Thank you to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the ARC!

CW:

PTSD, death of a parent by suicide, parent with Alzheimer's, murdered parents, false accusations, general gun trauma, near-drowning, blood, pet in danger