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anfishh's Reviews (797)
I really, really enjoyed Submergence. And I thought I would hate it, after the first sentence. Submergence is a book that takes its time, draws out its story so that you know more about the backstory than the actual narrative of current happenings. And so in that way, Submergence is more about the environment that it creates than the plot it tells. It is one of the more engaging stories I've read recently.
I'm pretty sure that Bell's novel moved novel-writing forward for me. The story has the feelings of an epic to me. Right up there with Homer, I find myself simultaneously loving the twists and turns, and asking "what just happened?!" And near the end, when everything is wrapping up and falling down, I highlighted so many passages that I could probably just read the whole thing outloud to you.
Enthralling. I've been calling Nutting's book "the Gone Girl of Sex." In the same way, I lost a little faith in humanity by the end of the book, but I still devoured every page in a frenzy.
A really great novel. I stayed up too late reading it several nights in a row. It's a bit confusing deciphering what is probably real and what is "fiction," but I loved it nonetheless.