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From Below, Darcy Coates

Updated: Mar 16



FROM BELOW


  • Author : Darcy Coates

  • Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press

  • Released : 07 June 2022

  • Page count : 480

  • Format : Digital

  • Genre : Horror, dark fiction

  • Content warnings : Death, Body horror, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement

  • Source : Kobo online Shop

  • Representation : LGBTQIA+

  • Part of a Series : No

 

★★★★☆ — I really liked this book

 






Quote from the book:

“The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there.”

 

Pros: An easy horror read, tense and mysterious. Easy goosebumps.


Cons: Slow start, basic character development.


 

Summary :


No light. No air. No escape.

Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...

Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course...a silent graveyard deep beneath the ocean's surface, eagerly waiting for the first sign of life.

Cove and her dive team have been granted permission to explore the Arcadia's rusting hull. Their purpose is straightforward: examine the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable ship vanished.

But the Arcadia has not yet had its fill of death, and something dark and hungry watches from below. With limited oxygen and the ship slowly closing in around them, Cove and her team will have to fight their way free of the unspeakable horror now desperate to claim them.

Because once they're trapped beneath the ocean's waves, there's no going back.

 

 

My Thoughts on this Book :


One of my favorite reads of the end of 2024. The eerie underwater atmosphere is so deep and thick ! As a diver myself, I felt it even stronger. My paranoid imagination working pretty great, I'm pretty sure after this read, my next dive will be a bit more anxious than usual. The character aren't super developed but enough for the story. it's definitely more plot driver than character driven but it still worked for me. The description and feeling during the dive established pretty easily an eerie, stressful vibes which helps the reader (even if you are not a diver as it is not too technical) feels what the characters might feel tool. It's difficult to write more about the setting and the story without spoilers so I keep it like this. But if you like the claustrophobic thick horror ambiance with suspense, go for it. It is a pretty easy read and it's definitely a page turner. I coupled it with the audiobook for some parts and it's a pretty good combo.

 

 

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