Done!

I finished "The Terror" by Dan Simmons! Wow! The story is based on actual events of the newly steamed powered ships the TERROR and the EREBUS. They set out in 1845 from England to discover the Northwest Passage. Well stocked with supplies to hold them for several years in case they were frozen in over the winter. The crew never suspected what awaited them in that frozen world. Not only faced with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and the ships buckling in the grip of all that ice, but the real enemy is far more terrifying. A unseen predator that is outside the ships clawing to get in. With starvation a real possibility, the new captain leads his surviving crewmen on a last desparate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival or....... They are stalked southward across the ice and it becomes more and more apparent that there may be no escape. I found the book a little difficult in the first few chapters to get into the story and figure out exactly what was happening but once you get beyond those few chapters you get hooked.