From Below

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Despite having some solid characters in the beginning, especially the main protagonist Cove, I just felt this novel started to get dull and repetitive as I went through the chapters. I enjoyed all the great atmospheric elements of this, especially the underwater situations, but after a while, it just started to get boring. I've been a swimmer and a diver. But, something about spending 2 hours in decompression just scares the "youknowwhat" out of me! From Below” by Darcy Coates started out really interesting at first. This was the first novel I’ve read by Coates and I can easily tell she is a great author that has an excellent style of writing. As I kept reading, I loved all the explanations of what truly happens when it comes to deep-sea diving and exploration. Talk about some truly claustrophobic moments!

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From Below follows two timelines: Present day where Cove and her team are preparing to dive down to the ship wreak of the Arcadia where they will film footage for a documentary, and the second is 1928 in the days leading up to that ship wreak. For Rediker, part of that work is teaching. He was recently the visiting professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he ran the hugely popular graduate course, “How to Write History from Below.” The course explored the key theories, methods, and issues in history from below, from its origin in the 1930s, through the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, to the present.I have read all three books in Gravekeeper series and thoroughly enjoyed them. While I appreciate all of Coates's work, I must mention that the Gravekeeper books stand out for their paranormal horror, which is quite distinct from the horror found in From Below.

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For the life of me, I just could not bring myself to care about the present day story-line. It dragged along for a solid two-thirds of the book before anything really started to happen. It's such a shame because Coates did such a fantastic job building this sense of dread, isolation, and claustrophobia in the beginning of the story. We don’t use below when one thing touches or covers or hides something else; we usually use under instead: SS Arcadia vanished without a trace and made its bed on the ocean floor. Why did the ship lose communication with the outside world, veer off-course, and sink without cause? And what became of its passengers? This is one of those books that doesn’t get interesting until it’s at 70%. You are given a peak of the upcoming horror to come, but nothing happens. This is an entertaining Underwater horror book. The narrative felt claustrophobic and tense. The characters were decently well developed and did not feel too stereotypical. As someone who cannot swim, these kind of stories definitely appeal to me. This was my first Darcy Coates book and I think it was a great place to start.

I'm voluntarily reviewing an advanced copy of From Below ; this title drops June 7th and it's coming up soooon! Darcy Coates' stories are all different that I've read so far and I'm very impressed with the variety. The premise she chose here was perfect; like space, the sea is another environment rife with fodder for horror elements. Pretty much loved this, and how Coates manages maximum creepiness paired with a feeling that things will generally work out.

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Darcy Coates created atmosphere in this creepy setting. The ship itself is very much a character in this book. I enjoyed the other characters as well. We get to know some more than others, but that didn't hinder my enjoyed of the book. I enjoyed the sense of unease, the dark eerie setting, the spike of fear this book evoked.

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Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class showed historian Ruth Mather “a new way of doing history, one which didn’t patronise working people, or subsume them in a narrative of progress, but instead constructed a story about thinking, feeling people with their own ideas about their lives and their own strategies for living them.” But that’s not really the problem with From Below. The problem is how utterly fake it looks. If the two lead actors even saw