It Looks Like Us
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3.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world’s biggest tech companies. She joins five student volunteers, a company-approved chaperone, and an impartial scientist to prove that environmental plastic pollution has reached all the way to Antarctica, but what they find is something much worse… something that looks human.
Riley has anxiety--ostracized by the kids at school because of panic attacks--so when she starts to feel like something’s wrong with their expedition leader, Greta, she writes it off. But when Greta snaps and tries to kill Riley, she can’t chalk it up to an overactive imagination anymore. Worse, after watching Greta disintegrate, only to find another student with the same affliction, she realizes they haven’t been infected, they’ve been infiltrated--by something that can change its shape. And if the group isn’t careful, that something could quickly replace any of them.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
While being interrogated in a classic good cop, bad cop scenario, teenage Riley Kowalski recounts the events leading up to her rescue in this chilling horror novel that kicks off with Riley being airlifted out of a burning Antarctic research facility. A week prior to the book's beginning, Riley took three flights to get from Portland to Antarctica, where she and four other high school students join an expedition to research the effects of microplastic pollution. They aren't there long before a horrific shape-shifting creature invades the station. After infecting one of their chaperones with a body-morphing virus, the teens must figure out who they can trust while evading infection. Readers looking for a full-on creature feature won't be disappointed; drawing inspiration from the monster-flick creepiness of Alien and The Thing, Ames (To Break a Covenant) peppers the narrative with truly harrowing descriptions of the virus's victims and their brutally mangled bodies. Though the plot relies heavily on the structure of its influences, resulting in a familiar arc, the dynamic cast and their complex relationships propel this frightful adventure toward a bloody conclusion. Most characters default to white. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
Cool Book
I liked it. Riley is a very relatable character and the plot is really interesting, though it can be hard to follow at times. Still, would recommend.