Overall, I would say this book is a pretty interesting bit of "historical fiction" (I don't think that's the correct term.but this gist is that this story is a fictional account of what happened to the men of "Franklin's Lost Expedition" - google it - it's an interesting bit of history).mixed with a bit or horror and/or science fiction, and in general, I guess I would recommend it.
With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.
But their real enemy is far more terrifying. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph.
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