Read by Sean Mangan, Beneath the Dark Ice is just under ten hours of listening. Reading was paced well, female vs male voices okay, no problem discerning who-says-what-to-who.A corporate jet crashes through the ice of Antarctica, rescue workers immediately respond and disappear. Mystery lifts off immediately!Formulaic in character construct as the story moves forward, however. We have a beautiful yet vulnerable, smart, female scientist lead, a type A macho hero with extraordinary strength, a weaselly milk-toast, a few ‘red-shirts’ that get eaten alive, some a bit gratuitously, in my opinion. Then there are the requisite hard boiled officers, the bad-guy Russians. Throw it all into a pot with nasty shrimp-like/lizardly/slimy creature and wormy things that have lived underground on humanoids and each other for millennia and voila … Beneath the Dark Ice! Made for TV stuff that will likely never get made for TV? I didn’t have any trouble finishing the story. It has some room for improvement. The ending was not really an ending, but Beck has laid the groundwork for a great series. Alex Hunter is an interesting character that draws you in and Beck makes you really want to know him. I think I'm just a little disappointed in the character building for Alex. He's such a good character that demands a larger back story. I'm sure it's something the author is going to release in future books, but I wanted a little more. The story is also a good one. A hidden, primordial world that's centuries old. I may have been a little disappointed, but that's only because I wanted more. I will be reading the other books in the series and I enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anyone that wants a good action/adventure book to read.
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Really good book that I enjoyed reading. Will be reading the next one.
—Bookworm
A great action yarn. Almost as fast paced as Matthew Reilly!
—Pctouchstone
