Well... that was a thing that happened.

No, seriously, that's about the best description I can give.

Okay, okay, lets see if I can do better. Four people are sent out to explore the mysterious "Area X". No, wait, that's not right. Four jobs. Calling them people would involve doing things like giving them names and personalities. Okay, maybe one of them gets a nickname and some development, but only because we're in her head for the duration of events. But there's nothing that was really gripping about the characters for me to latch onto.

Well, what about that Area X place? What's going on there? Nobody seems to know. The characters don't, I don't, and I'm not certain the author knows. It just seems to be an area somewhere where eleven previous expeditions have ended badly, as in mass suicides and murder-suicides claimed a few of them. We're following the twelfth mission, and the wheels are falling off the bus before the end of the first day. There are elements that are supposed to be creepy and/ or frightening, maybe. I don't think I was pulled in enough for them to be effective. It's hard to care about what's happening to cannon fodder.

The only good thing I can say for it is that it's short. If this had dragged on for any real length, it would be appropriate to compare this thing to the television series Lost. Except that even at what could be argued to be that show's worst, it's Shakespeare mixed with the Encyclopedia Britannica compared to this.