Hidden Depths: Quick Read 2020

by Ifan Morgan Jones

Hidden Depths is a jaw-dropping sci-fi novella with echoes of the Welsh myth of Cantre Gwaelod (Wales’s very own Atlantis situated along the shore of Cardigan Bay). One of the the titles in the Quick Reads literacy scheme. Rees has been running away his whole life. But when a legend from his childhood turns out to be fact rather than fiction, he is drawn deeper into a hidden world that reveals a troubling truth - not just about his present, but also his past. The choice is keep running, or stay and fight.

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2020

About the author

Ifan Morgan Jones is lecturer in Journalism at Bangor University. He is the author of Babel - the first steampunk novel in Welsh, which won the 2020 Wales Book of the Year award (in the Welsh language), the Fiction category prize, and the Golwg360 Barn y Bobl (People's Choice award).

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is part of a quick reads project, it's a 120 pg book to get you to enjoy reading again. It has a sci-fi edge and although it's short I really enjoyed it.

It had legends, sci-fi and dragons.

Popsugar23 challenge : bought from an independent book store

[Josh Williams · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I know it was a short story, the writing felt really basic, like a GCSE English exercise rather than the writing of an author. The story felt like it hadn't been thought through from start to finish, rather just what had popped into the author's head.

[Jodi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very human story in a sci fi world

[Varry Lavin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favourite genre ok for a quick read but not that enjoyable.

[Samantha Luke · Rating 2 out of 5]

If this wasn't a quick read I would have dnf.
It was Sci fi which I really don't enjoy

[Elen McGregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

i know it was a quick read but i’m a little sad there wasn’t more. moved at a good pace and built so many character arcs in such little time, but i’d love to know what happened next