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A review by soobooksalot
The Chamber by Will Dean
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The Chamber is quite literally an immersive thriller. As locked-room as it gets.
Will Dean's newest centers around six saturation divers, who are locked together in their tiny hyperbaric chamber for weeks at a time while working on oil and gas lines at the bottom of the ocean.
Dive control personnel at the surface are in charge of their survival, everything from water, food, clothing, medical attention, and Heliox to breathe.
Even in an emergency, decompression takes no less than four days before they could emerge.
And that scenario happens when one of their own suddenly dies. Then another.
The Chamber is truly a page-turner, and quite a fascinating one when the job and living conditions of the divers are laid out as the setting.
Tension and disorientation are to the maximum once the deaths start and the reveals begin.
Thank you to @atriabooks and @netgalley for my eARC for review. Recommended!
Released on Aug. 6
Will Dean's newest centers around six saturation divers, who are locked together in their tiny hyperbaric chamber for weeks at a time while working on oil and gas lines at the bottom of the ocean.
Dive control personnel at the surface are in charge of their survival, everything from water, food, clothing, medical attention, and Heliox to breathe.
Even in an emergency, decompression takes no less than four days before they could emerge.
And that scenario happens when one of their own suddenly dies. Then another.
The Chamber is truly a page-turner, and quite a fascinating one when the job and living conditions of the divers are laid out as the setting.
Tension and disorientation are to the maximum once the deaths start and the reveals begin.
Thank you to @atriabooks and @netgalley for my eARC for review. Recommended!
Released on Aug. 6
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Car accident, and Murder