The suit Gyre is fitted with offers her employer a chance at better resource extraction from a dying colony; here, novel technology only augments necessary human labor. The book centers around main character Gyre, a caver, who is desperate to earn money to find her missing mother. The complicated relationship that develops ever so slowly between caver Gyre and her guide Em was more than enough for me. The characters of Gyre and Em were well done with both of them having their own demons driving them to find out what happened to lost loved ones.

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Ultimately, it’s up to you as the reader to determine whether you choose to believe the spirits are real, and if the cave is a living entity, sucking the souls back into its depths. A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller. Jane Shoringfield sees the world in numbers, patterns, and logical projections, and by her math, she needs one thing above all else: a husband who wants a marriage of convenience.There are many 5 star reviews for this book and I’m going to be here giving it a four and ½ and I won’t be rounding up because of my personal preferences and because some of it was a little bit of a slog for me, if you want to know the honest truth It is not a book I’d reread again but I wasn’t disappointed with the horror bits and the emotional wringer the characters put me through.

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The book was released to positive reviews from critics and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.It was perfectly suspenseful, action-packed, but also kept you so incredibly dedicated to the characters and what they were going through. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend.