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Beyond Hope
What do you do when you become separated from your dive buddy during a cave dive? How long do you look for your dive buddy? How far do you push your breathing air reserves before deciding you need to save yourself and exit the cave?
Beyond Hope goes in a completely different direction from Rob Neto's previous two books. The entire story takes place underwater during a cave dive.Joey and Lindsey take their first trip to Mexico to see what the underwater caves there have to offer. One of the cave dives they do proves to be challenging, very challenging. It also pushes Joey and Lindsey to their limits while testing their faith and having them question some of their life choices.
Will Joey and Lindsey survive this dive? Or are they Beyond Hope?
Beyond Hope goes in a completely different direction from Rob Neto's previous two books. The entire story takes place underwater during a cave dive.Joey and Lindsey take their first trip to Mexico to see what the underwater caves there have to offer. One of the cave dives they do proves to be challenging, very challenging. It also pushes Joey and Lindsey to their limits while testing their faith and having them question some of their life choices.
Will Joey and Lindsey survive this dive? Or are they Beyond Hope?
336 pages, Hardcover
Published August 20, 2024
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February 18, 2026
Another day, another dive for Joey Simmons and the girlfriend who puts up with him for God-only-knows why, Lindsey Carter. (I’m pretty sure when Sabrina Carpenter co-wrote the lyrics to “Manchild,” she was referring to our pal, Joey.) But this time, they’ve taken their show on the road, so to speak, and are exploring the caves of Cozumel, Mexico, along with their buddy, Gary. Gary is every bit as impetuous as Joey, so poor Lindsey’s really got her work cut out for her keeping these two loose cannons in check. For her, it’s more like babysitting than vacation, so what are the odds these two lunkheads will actually follow the safety protocols that Lindsey insists upon when diving as a team?
Yeah, you guessed right…
In his third “Beyond” outing, Neto tackles a rather difficult challenge as an author. We know from the very beginning that our three protagonists are separated, and each has a limited amount of time to find each other and return to the surface before they run out of air. How in the world can you take this premise and stretch it to 300+ pages? I’ll admit, I was a little dubious. But Neto’s extensive personal experience with cave diving gives him a unique perspective from which to spin his tales, and it lends an authenticity to his fiction that is both immersive and claustrophobic. His use of rotating points-of-view keeps the story afloat (pardon the pun) as our protagonists’ predicament becomes more and more dire, although I DO think there was maybe a wee bit too much redundancy that could have been omitted while keeping the tension fully intact—thus the four-and-a-half star rating. However, it will get rounded up to five on most platforms, as most don’t deal in fractions.
I would never spoil the ending of a book, but as there IS already a fourth book in the series, it’s safe to say that at least SOMEONE survives—but Neto will keep you guessing until the very end who that might be. Nice addition to the series!
Yeah, you guessed right…
In his third “Beyond” outing, Neto tackles a rather difficult challenge as an author. We know from the very beginning that our three protagonists are separated, and each has a limited amount of time to find each other and return to the surface before they run out of air. How in the world can you take this premise and stretch it to 300+ pages? I’ll admit, I was a little dubious. But Neto’s extensive personal experience with cave diving gives him a unique perspective from which to spin his tales, and it lends an authenticity to his fiction that is both immersive and claustrophobic. His use of rotating points-of-view keeps the story afloat (pardon the pun) as our protagonists’ predicament becomes more and more dire, although I DO think there was maybe a wee bit too much redundancy that could have been omitted while keeping the tension fully intact—thus the four-and-a-half star rating. However, it will get rounded up to five on most platforms, as most don’t deal in fractions.
I would never spoil the ending of a book, but as there IS already a fourth book in the series, it’s safe to say that at least SOMEONE survives—but Neto will keep you guessing until the very end who that might be. Nice addition to the series!
April 8, 2025
Not a lot of good adventure authors out there, but this is good. Tells a cave-diving story (!) with great balance; savvy descriptions of the equipment & techniques used are blended well with the narrative.
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