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Deepwater
The mining ship "The Voyager," on an assignment three thousand miles out in the Pacific, discovers unimaginable mineral wealth and strange new life forms three miles from the surface
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First published January 1, 1983
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March 21, 2022
This book has been around for decades and I’m the first to rate and review it, which doesn’t exactly scream drop what you’re doing and go read this. My review of it won’t scream it either. It's fine, but if you're expecting finer you might be disappointed. Buh dum dumtz.
To be fair, it isn’t entirely the book’s fault. The book is actually a perfectly competent and not too terribly dated nightmare at high seas adventure with a dual don’t be greedy/don’t mess with nature moral going.
It’s got a lot of technical details to place the readers right on the ship or a submersible or a dinghy amid the hostile waters, a decent creepy factor, and a nicely dark ending, but overall, it didn’t quite sing for me. Didn’t quite engage. The characters weren’t as vividly realized as the technical details or their watery surroundings.
Fans of aquatic nightmare scenarios might enjoy this one. It reads quickly enough too.
To be fair, it isn’t entirely the book’s fault. The book is actually a perfectly competent and not too terribly dated nightmare at high seas adventure with a dual don’t be greedy/don’t mess with nature moral going.
It’s got a lot of technical details to place the readers right on the ship or a submersible or a dinghy amid the hostile waters, a decent creepy factor, and a nicely dark ending, but overall, it didn’t quite sing for me. Didn’t quite engage. The characters weren’t as vividly realized as the technical details or their watery surroundings.
Fans of aquatic nightmare scenarios might enjoy this one. It reads quickly enough too.
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