She has been a signature reviewer for Publishers Weekly and a contributor to The Huffington Post. Still, if said flavor of this capably wrought tale befits your midnights dreary, you should find The Deep a compelling read. Alma Katsu is the author of The Hunger, The Taker, The Reckoning, and The Descent. The climactic twist at the end of the novel, de rigueur in the horror genre, falls just a little too heavily for this reader. It also needs to be said, emphatically: The author is no slouch when it comes to vivid descriptions that transcend the usual formulas of the genre she’s chosen. Author Alma Katsu brings all the right stuff, with enough long-harbored memories, emotional wounds, violent outbursts, breathless reunions, furtive crimes, laudanum-spiked forebodings, 'gypsy' curses, and spooky seances to keep the hearts of supernatural-fiction fans thumping to all hours. If this premise appeals, I say go for it.
Steeped in atmospherics and relentless foreboding, The Deep treads a bleak path between two maritime disasters from the second decade of the last century. Brilliantly combining the supernatural with the height of historical disaster, The Deep is an exploration of love and destiny, desire and innocence, and, above all, a quest to understand how our. This chilling tale of tragic death and spectral visitations bumps along behind the restless heartbeat of its plucky young heroine.
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