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Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

4 reviews

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Murder, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Another fantastic thriller from Diana Urban!! I loved this book so much! The plot twists were great and I didn’t see a few of them coming! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Drug use

Minor: Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

haleybre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death, and Addiction

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gaslighting, Violence, Gun violence, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

reading_under_covers's review

2.0

After her best friend steals her boyfriend, Jade is more than ready to set sail on the Campus on Board ship where she’ll be studying and traveling for four months. However, when her backstabbing friend and ex show up, things take a turn for the worse as students start dropping like flies.

LYING IN THE DEEP by Diana Urban is a twisty, locked-room, destination thriller with a wide cast of characters.

I find it hard to review this one because I really enjoyed the first quarter of this book - it had everything I love in a YA thriller, and was just an overall fun time!

But things took a nosedive starting with the way the characters behaved and were portrayed. They’re meant to be college-aged, but are extremely immature and naive, which both annoyed me and made me question a million of their actions. 

On that point, I love when characters go all armchair detective on me, but our main girl, Jade, seemed to go a little over the top and had me scratching my head at where any of her sense of logic was coming from.

The twist was fun, until it also felt a bit outlandish and forced…

I’m definitely an outlier here, but if you pick this one up, prepare for a wild ride either way.

Thanks to NetGalley, Penguin, and Razorbill for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Publication Date: May 2

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Addiction