Blog Tour: The Deep

This month has been filled with blog tours and amazing reads and I am so thankful. This week I’m part of the blog tour for The Deep by Alma Katsu. Let’s dive in!

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Title: The Deep
Author: Alma Katsu
Rating: 3 Stars
Format: eARC
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Date Published: 10 March 2020
Goodreads Description: Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic.

This is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the ship from the moment they set sail: mysterious disappearances, sudden deaths. Now suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone during the four days of the liner’s illustrious maiden voyage, a number of the passengers – including millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, the maid Annie Hebbley and Mark Fletcher – are convinced that something sinister is going on . . . And then, as the world knows, disaster strikes.

Years later and the world is at war. And a survivor of that fateful night, Annie, is working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. Plagued by the demons of her doomed first and near-fatal journey across the Atlantic, Annie comes across an unconscious soldier she recognises while doing her rounds. It is the young man Mark. And she is convinced that he did not – could not – have survived the sinking of the Titanic…

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Review

Story

The premise of The Deep is what initially drew me to this story. Titanic and ghosts? Sign me up, please. However, after reading it I felt slightly disappointed. This wasn’t what I expected story-wise. I loved the Irish folklore surrounding the story, but my biggest complaint is the lack of ghosts.

I love reading about ghosts and ghost stories, this one was just a bit lacking. It needed some tension and angst, and it wasn’t as creepy as I thought it would be.

Writing

Other than that I thought the writing was amazing. Katsu has a way of pulling you in with her characters, which were all really fleshed out and given interesting stories. There were no big info dumps and the author gave through character backstories and worldbuilding in a believable way.

The author put a lot of research into this book and it shows. The descriptions of both the Titanic and Brittanic were beautiful, and the writing was just overall amazing.

Characters

I did feel like some characters were unnecessary, but it doesn’t annoy me that much since they were all so well written. I loved each of their stories and it really makes me want to read Katsu’s other books.

What were your thoughts on The Deep?

Author Information

Alma Katsu is the author of The Hunger, a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party with a horror twist. The Hunger made NPR’s list of the 100 best horror Stories, was named one of the best novels of 2018 by the Observer, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books (and more), and was nominated for a Stoker and Locus Award for best horror novel.

The Taker, her debut novel, has been compared to the early works of Anne Rice and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander for combining historical, the supernatural, and fantasy into one story. The Taker was named a Top Ten Debut Novel of 2011 by Booklist, was nominated for a Goodreads Readers Choice award, and has been published in over 10 languages. It is the first in an award-winning trilogy that includes The Reckoning and The Descent.

Ms Katsu lives outside of Washington DC with her husband, musician Bruce Katsu. In addition to her novels, she has been a signature reviewer for Publishers Weekly, and a contributor to the Huffington Post. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Program and Brandeis University, where she studied with novelist John Irving. She also is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Prior to the publication of her first novel, Ms Katsu had a long career in intelligence, working for several US agencies and a think tank. She currently is a consultant on emerging technologies.

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