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A review by renoku
The Deep by Gordon Korman
5.0
Alternate title for this book: Everything That Could Go Wrong During a Diving Expedition Goes Wrong and Here's How. Also alternatively: Chekov's Gun in the Form of Giant Man-Eating Sharks. The only other words I can use to open this review are how is this a children's book?!
Despite the obligatory exposition chapter that recaps the first book that I'd finished reading ten minutes before picking up this one (the perks of a box set), this story immediately picked up from the get go. And with this, there were conflicts galore! Every single chapter became a game of "oh, here's this new aspect of diving that the main characters now get to experience and HERE'S HOW IT'S GONNA GO WRONG" and honestly I found this FASCINATING.
But the ending is so much! I honestly was waiting the entire book for English and the interns to make up, but not like this! And I know in the back of my mind that it's gonna be okay, BUT IS IT?! I thought that everyone was gonna be safe, because this is a children's book, but OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT TRUE ANYMORE. ANYTHING IS UP FOR GRABS NOW.
And what's even worse is I don't have the time to immediately start the next book. I have to wait like a normal person! So good, this was. Honestly, I often feel like the second book of a trilogy is usually the weakest, but if this is the case, I can't wait for how good the third will be!
Despite the obligatory exposition chapter that recaps the first book that I'd finished reading ten minutes before picking up this one (the perks of a box set), this story immediately picked up from the get go. And with this, there were conflicts galore! Every single chapter became a game of "oh, here's this new aspect of diving that the main characters now get to experience and HERE'S HOW IT'S GONNA GO WRONG" and honestly I found this FASCINATING.
But the ending is so much! I honestly was waiting the entire book for English and the interns to make up, but not like this! And I know in the back of my mind that it's gonna be okay, BUT IS IT?! I thought that everyone was gonna be safe, because this is a children's book, but OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT TRUE ANYMORE. ANYTHING IS UP FOR GRABS NOW.
And what's even worse is I don't have the time to immediately start the next book. I have to wait like a normal person! So good, this was. Honestly, I often feel like the second book of a trilogy is usually the weakest, but if this is the case, I can't wait for how good the third will be!