Date Of Review: May 13, 2025
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6537023445
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Cold Eternity

Author: S.A. Barnes
Narrator: Amara Jasper
Started: May 3, 2025
Finished: May 9, 2025
Genre: horror, science fiction
Length: 9 hours, 39 minutes
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211003824-cold-eternity
Storygraph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d6b5cb4e-58cf-4b4a-a8bf-60f5a2fd5e33

Review:

I was excited to finally read this book! I love all the other books the author has written. I should have know what was coming. I really should have. It was rather obvious looking back - hindsight is 20/20 and all that. It was just an emotional rollercoaster for me at the end. THat along with exploiting a fear humans have about aliens - perfect!

That being said the plot was a little bit lackluster at the beginning & when it has to do with Halley's life when she was known as Katerina. I know that is only so many ways a plot can be done, but I think it is a little overdone. What is there to do though, as that is probably how things will still be in the future - so why not use it?

Some of the logic didn't make sense until the end. I am sure it was me and my inability to see where this was going like I should have though. I am actually glad I didn't see the needing like I usually do. It's a habit I've been working on not doing (thinking about where a book will go so as not to spoil it for myself). It's brought joy back to reading for me.

Goodreads Description:

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…

The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.

It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from….

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