gilda_elise

This is how the world with a single snowflake.

After a tragic accident at work, all Grady Miller wanted was an escape. He finds it months later with two of his closest friends. Together, the three of them travel south to Prism Lake for the upcoming holiday, where they plan on spending the sunny weekend drinking, grilling, and relaxing.

But when a series of monstrous blizzards cover the eastern United States in feet of snow, knocking out communications and making the roads impossible to drive on, they realize their weekend of fun could turn into a lifetime of survival.

Because there’s something out there besides the cold…

Something sinister…

Too bad the reader never gets to know what that is, as the book abruptly ends. There are four sequels, but I’m not wasting my time. The writing is amateurish; I’ve read fanfiction that’s better. Actually I’ve read fan fiction that is a lot better.

Perhaps Maxwell’s worse sin is that he keeps going off on tangents. Yes, there has to be a certain amount of backstory for the characters, but telling us once would have been enough. I got the impression that the writer was sketching out what could have been a short story into a novel. Which makes me wonder if, with a good editor, the five books could have been one.

Apparently the writer is around the same age as his characters, but they speak so much in clichés and frat-boy speak, that it’s hard to imagine that that’s the case. Which doesn’t help their appeal. None of the characters are fleshed out enough for me to have cared what happened to them.

I’m not sure where Maxwell was going with this. As if a world smothered in snow isn’t bad enough there are some sort of monsters out in it. Another story ruined by trying to do too much.