Review: Blizzard madness and terror
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
Snowblind is remarkably evocative of the incredible sense of isolation you feel when you are sitting out a fierce winter blizzard, even if you are toasty warm inside your house. It is something in town, it is even freakier when you are in a cabin in the woods, especially by a lake shore. You experience both a sense of wonder and of fear hearing the wind roar and the snow wash the world away in its whiteness. Add to that the friezing cold if you are unlucky enough to be caught outside in the storm, a threat unseen but clearly felt, and a growing unease building up to high tension and you have the setting for this thrilling novel.The prose is clean, sparse, and aimed at injecting as much of the terror felt by the characters into the reader. Best read in bed, in the dark. And during a blizzard if you can wait for one...