What a nail-biting story! I was cold the entire time I read it! The chemistry was electric and the story kept me on the edge of my seat. It almost felt like a book in the middle of a series. The characters were well-developed and I want to read more of the backstories. There seems to be room to move forward as well. It was a hot adventure read and I can't wait to share it with my thrill-seeking patrons!

First book that I’ve read by Adriana Anders and she blew me away! Whiteout was a nail biter that had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. Angel and Ford were an unlikely duo that were oh so perfect together. Excellent read! Can’t wait for more in this series.

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

An action packed thriller!
Like so many others, Angel and Ford go to South Pole for their own reasons, Angel to escape her life and Ford to be as alone as possible. Angel calls him "Ice Man" as he is completely unemotional. All that will change as things start getting deadly in the South Pole. Ford had unearthed a hidden virus deep within the ice, and people will do anything to obtain the deadly weapon. With nothing but frozen ice before them, Angel and Ford must embark on a dangerous track across the vast wilderness of snow and ice to survive the killers that will do anything to obtain the virus.
This book is filled with action, emotions, and love. The well developed plot and characters made this book a page turner that I didn't want to put down. Can't wait for the next book!
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Holy moly. What did I just read? I finished this book two nights ago and I STILL have a book hangover! Adriana Anders needs to write faster. That's all there is to it.
One of the things I adore about her books is that her heroes aren't perfect. She's written about a blind man, an amputee, and in this one, a socially awkward loner. It's better than it sounds though.... Ford Cooper is all THAT and more. Angel calls him the Ice Man, because he is like a frozen shell of a man. No emotions, no expression, no humor.... just stoic isolation.
That all changes when Angel and Coop find themselves literally running for their lives across Antarctica. His protective instincts kick in, and his hell-bent determination to keep Angel alive was so incredible. I would say this was romantic suspense at its best, but it's not really suspense. More like.... romantic thriller? There was SO much going on along their journey to safety. The thrills and chills were real, and the heat... let me tell you, these two knew how to heat up a tent in the middle of the frozen tundra.
I don't think this book had quite the same level of sexiness as some of her others, but Ms. Anders definitely delivers on the intense passion.
I loved how much Angel and Coop learned about themselves and each other. There was something magical about how she brought sunshine into his life, and when he finally allowed himself to bask in it? Wow.
This was a thoroughly intoxicating read, and I want more!

Whew...what an action packed story. I have to admit, it took me a few chapters to get used to the style of writing, especially when describing the characters feelings. The author uses many descriptive words that can sometimes seem unnecessary, however the premise and the story was intriguing enough that it didn’t bother me after awhile. I felt cold reading it and was exhausted after I finished it. Can’t wait to see if Leo is okay in the next book

Adeptly written, full of thrilling moments showing superb narrative control, ‘Whiteout’ is putting Adriana Anders on my romantic-suspense-authors list. Truth is, I had a damn good time with this. Few stories use Antarctica as a setting; even fewer delve so deeply into and write so convincingly about the endless, brutal, frigid whiteness and the fragility of humanity against the unrelenting harshness of nature.

Both Angel Smith and Ford Cooper are in Antarctica for various reasons of their own, but they have each found a place there they belong, amongst an eclectic group of people finding camaraderie at the end of the world. Things change only when a series of events lead them to run for their lives and the fractious ‘relationship’ both initially have changes as they are thrust together in extreme and adverse circumstances that no one could ever imagine.

Angel/Ford are an unlikely pairing, but Anders persuades me early on that a terse, emotionally-unsure glaciologist with an everyday heroine with her own hurts can actually be one I’ll root for. In fact, the strength that Angel develops as the crisis goes on is admirable—more so because it very eloquently details the sort of limits and fortitude you don’t know you have until the need for survival drops suddenly on you.

The overall narrative arc isn’t one that is yet resolved: Ford and Angel barely get out of this alive (this is still thanks to an almost Deus ex Machina moment) and the bad guys for now get their comeuppance, but there overall trajectory of world domination through population-cleansing is still there. It left me somewhat uncertain and unclear, so portions with the masterminding corporation and the higher-ups seemed fuzzy despite the slow movements of chess pieces across a board I couldn’t fully understand yet.

I wished we could have had more moments exploring Ford’s history together—that is merely briefly alluded to—but the focus is so on the present that there just doesn’t seem to be enough space (both mental and emotional) for it. The last few pages wrapped up Ford/Angel’s story a tad hastily and a sort-of cliffhanger ending made ‘Whiteout’ feel incomplete despite the rushed HEA. But Anders leaves me wanting more and in this case, I’m already watching out for the sequel.