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It Looks Likes Us
Alison Ames
288 pages
Page Street Kids
published September 27, 2022
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About the book:
The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic thriller. Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world’s biggest tech companies. She joins five student volunteers, a company-approved chaperone, and an impartial scientist to prove that environmental plastic pollution has reached all the way to Antarctica, but what they find is something much worse…something that looks human. Riley has anxiety–ostracized by the kids at school because of panic attacks–so when she starts to feel like something’s wrong with their expedition leader, Greta, she writes it off. But when Greta snaps and tries to kill Riley, she can’t chalk it up to an overactive imagination anymore. Worse, after watching Greta disintegrate, only to find another student with the same affliction, she realizes they haven’t been infected, they’ve been infiltrated–by something that can change its shape. And if the group isn’t careful, that something could quickly replace any of them.
Content Warning: gore and panic attacks
My review:
What a great start to the reading spooky season. This is a cross between The Thing and an old Dean Koontz novel. I read a book a long time ago where really bad things happened in the arctic and ever since then I cringe when I see articles about the ice caps melting. This will definitely give me nightmares thinking about it.
The descriptions of the monster are so descriptive that I could picture it. It started out with a bang and didn’t let up. The arctic setting was almost a character itself and perfect for the story.
I had a chuckle at the name of the capitalistic founder of the project “Anton Rusk.” I enjoyed the diverse cast of characters and read this in a little over a day. While you kinda know the end since we start at Riley’s escape as she tells what happened to get her there, I was still on the edge of my seat wondering how we would get there.
If you are looking for an eerie fall read, I’d add this to your tbr.
Sherry
About the Author:
Alison Ames is a writer based in Colorado. Her debut novel To Break A Covenant was published in fall 2021.
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