Whiteout

Survival Instincts, Book 1

By: Adriana Anders

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her final day, the remote-research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives...only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run.

Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman on their heels, Angel and Ford must fight to survive in the most inhospitable - and beautiful - place on earth. But what starts as a partnership born of necessity quickly turns into an urgent connection that burns bright and hot. They both know there's little chance of making it out alive, and yet they are determined to weather the coming storm - no matter the cost.

©2020 Adriana Anders (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Great story

I sure hope there is going to be a sequel. I really like the characters.

Suspenseful, Exciting, Delightful

I love a grumpy, closed off hero dealing with a ray of sunshine and this story delivers that, plus a man-against-nature adventure across Antarctica as two people run from murderers. Good pacing, beautiful descriptions of scenery and developing admiration make this a satisfying story. I enjoyed the narration.

Can’t wait for the next book in this series! BTW - it ends in a cliffhanger.

Not Bad, but a bit all over the place

This is a story I could’ve liked more than I did. There is a good story in there, but it got a bit lost in the execution.

A good portion of the book really dragged. The trek across Antarctica was a slog. The romance had charm, but some of the romantic tension seemed artificial - added just to draw it out.

The last quarter of the book was faster paced and more engaging, until you realized a lot of it was to set up subsequent books. In that, I found the ending unsatisfying.

New “players” got added later in the story that had me scratching my head, a bit. But again, I think that was more about future books in the series.

And lastly, I get a bit annoyed when stories involve massive conspiracies. They require a bit too much suspension of reality, or encourage folks to think they are believable.

On the narration: Colleen Marlow did a nice job, although I wasn’t personally fond of some of her “male” voices.

A great combo of romance, thrills & action!

Angel Smith is just about to end her time as the cook for Burke-Ruhe research base at the South Pole in Antarctica. Winter is about to start and instead of all days they’ll switch to all nights and only a skeleton crew will be staying on, but before she can get on the plane the base is attacked leaving her and Ford Cooper stranded. Now they must get to safety and survive in the harsh elements before their food runs out and before the bad guys hunt them down and finish them off.

Ford Cooper tried to keep his distance from Angel because of his intense attraction to her, because nothing could come of it, but now that they’re thrown together and on the run for their lives he doesn’t have much hope he’ll be able to resist her.

This was a thrilling, fast-paced, action filled read, and I loved every minute of it! At the beginning of the story Angel and Ford have a bit of an antagonistic relationship. Angel’s attracted to Ford, but thinks he hates her as all he does is scowl and avoid her as much as possible. She doesn’t realize that he’s attracted to her as well and has some fears about getting together. Of course, when all hell breaks loose, and they’re thrown together under life and death circumstances they get close and the sparks fly! Very steamy when they weren’t running for their lives! I was just worried about them surviving long enough for the relationship to go anywhere and let me tell you it was pretty intense and shaky there for a while!

Adriana Anders is a new to me author, but I had a strong feeling I’d love Whiteout after giving her a try with Deep Blue, the prequel novella to Whiteout. The story features Zoe and Ford’s brother, Eric. It isn’t necessary to read before Whiteout, but it was a lot of fun and a quick read! It’s still free on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, part of a bundle of novellas in Turn the Tide.

Really enjoyed Coleen Marlo's performance. Both her male and female voices were excellent!

seriously gripping

I was just transported to the Antarctic whole reading this. so we'll written. and such a suspenseful and sweet and interesting story. I highly recommend! I liked this author before but this book is definitely one of if not the best.

Very good book

I really enjoyed this book , I like the book right from the start, would recommend this book for others to read

The tale of the Iceman!

Dr Ford ‘Iceman’ Cooper is a research scientist in the South Pole. The night before the ‘summer crew’ head back, he becomes slightly suspicious when he can’t find his best friend. The next day all he!! breaks loose and Coop realizes that someone is after some virus samples that he had discovered in the ice. The only other person at the camp is the cook, Angel, whom Coop has been avoiding all summer because of his attraction to her. Now Coop and Angel are on the run with the samples and a prayer that they can make it 200 miles to safety…over ice and snow! Enjoyed this story and looking forward to the next book.

Boring and predictable

This book is just 2 dimensional and boring. I could predict what was going to happen and everything worked out very conveniently.

Yes, finally, a book that keeps my attention!

Great Narration, and story line. Wow, this was a surprise. I really loved the book. Only one problem, where's the next one? We need more of Whiteout!

Keeps you on the edge of your seat

Not very realistic, but a good yarn, so I enjoyed it all the same. I loved reading about survival on Antarctica and just wish more time had been spent on describing life on the research station. I liked seeing the growing friendship between Angel and Ford, and though the romance did come a bit out of the blue, I can totally see how being thrown together in such intense circumstances could do that.

But it does require a serious suspension of disbelief, so give it a miss if you're not into that kind of thing.

Great romantic suspense

This is not my favourite genre but this book was one of my favourites of 2020. Great plot, great suspense and great romance. Almost impossible to do well and Ms Anders had done it so well here.
Narration was good too

3.5 stars

Angel and Ford are great characters and I loved the storyline but I felt it was just too long. For me there was too much internal dialogue that slowed the pace of what would have been an edge of your seat, action packed read. Don’t get me wrong it was action packed and thrilling in places but it lacked momentum. I probably will carry on with the series as I was intrigued by the cliffhanger.

Didn't survive it

Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard and Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith are my favourite "survival" novels containing a romance. Whiteout was chosen for the similar premise and reviews sounded so good, but half way through the book, I knew it would be my own tale of survival to get to the end. For me this narration and this book did not match. The scientific subject and location, intelligent plot and writing, belied the stuffed up nose fluffy irritating sing-song narrator's style (is she recovering from a cold?). It detracted from the book, from the intensity and tension, the terror of dying out on the ice, made the characters sound a bit demented and made me cringe so many times, almost causing me to stop the book. It might've been OK in a short book, but for a long one it was not pleasant.

When you're really enjoying a book, you fly through it, sometimes at one sitting. I've taken 3 major breaks in this book, even having other audiobooks in between to fortify me to return and continue but still couldn't make it to the end. SPOILED BY THE NARRATOR

Kept me on the edge of my seat

Absolutely loved this story and the narrator did an excellent job. Highly recommended to be read and it deserves a 10 star rating