A paranormal thriller, The Dark Beneath the Ice is a mystery with high stakes. Marianne has just been told her parents are getting a divorce, and her Mom then checked herself into the hospital for emotional problems. Just as her life is falling apart around her, paranormal things start happening to her. She starts loosing time, having dreams about drowning in a deep ice water lake, breaking lights and mirrors around her and seeing ominous writings on the surfaces around her. Whatever is happening is getting worse, and she has to navigate her life and family problems, all while going crazy and facing off against the powerful and paranormal.It was fine. The Dark Beneath the Ice was okay, but right at the end it had a random lesbian relationship that came out of nowhere and didn't feel appropriate to the pacing. It felt quite abrupt and didn't really fit, being thrown in within the last couple pages. The story was very family and individually focused, which was fascinating, but then in the last pages changed to a romance, which felt very unearned. Besides that, the story before then was very interesting as it was written in a way that you could imagine that the story was not a paranormal thriller, but the story of a mentally ill young girl who is seeing the outcome of bottling up trauma and extreme emotions. It was fairly interesting in that way. All it all, The Dark Beneath the Ice was fine and I give it the rating of THREE AND A HALF STARS OUT OF FIVE!!!
*Advanced Readers Copy Review*
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