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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…

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In classic slasher movie fashion, Ames assembles a group of teens, each with complicated backstories, and strands them in the middle of Antarctica. But they aren’t alone; there’s the recently unearthed shapeshifting monster picking them off one by one.

The gruesome and gory descriptions of the creature shifting are almost as horrifying as the claustrophobic and exhausting journey of survival on the most isolated continent.

Even with a climate change backdrop and a thinly veiled commentary on billionaires who operate above the law, this is a pulse-pounding, relentless horror story that makes you root for its characters and shudder at…

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