In a review for the Johannesburg Review of Books entitled ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’, Barbara Boswell discusses Ice Shock as:
[A] novel saturated with extremes: the extremity of the distance between the two lovers, the extreme difficulties of communication, given the lack of taken-for-granted communication infrastructure at the Antarctic, and the extreme climate conditions [the character] Niall endures.
