The Deep

Today’s post is on The Deep by Alma Katsu. It is 420 pages long and is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The cover is blue with a giant ship on top and a woman’s torso on the  bottom rising up to the ship. The story is told from third person close of the different characters. There is mild foul language, sex, and mild violence in this novel. The intended revere is someone who likes atmospheric novels with a light haunting on the side. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic.

This is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the ship from the moment they set sail: mysterious disappearances, sudden deaths. Now suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone during the four days of the liner's illustrious maiden voyage, a number of the passengers - including millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, the maid Annie Hebbley and Mark Fletcher - are convinced that something sinister is going on . . . And then, as the world knows, disaster strikes.

Years later and the world is at war. And a survivor of that fateful night, Annie, is working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. Plagued by the demons of her doomed first and near fatal journey across the Atlantic, Annie comes across an unconscious soldier she recognizes while doing her rounds. It is the young man Mark. And she is convinced that he did not - could not - have survived the sinking of the Titanic . . .

Review- An interesting haunting novel that will leave you guessing about what is really going on. Annie Hebbley just wants to see the world and move on from her past. So she takes a job as a stewardess on the Titanic and gets involved in her passengers affairs. The story is told in two parts, one on the Titanic in 1912 and then flashing forward to 1916 on the sister ship of the Titanic, the Britannic. Annie is surprised to discover the man she had maybe an affair with from the Titanic on board having been wounded in battle. She is sure that fate has brought them back together but is it something else? This novel was a fast read for me, because I wanted to know what was really going on and of course the answer is tragic. If you liked Katsu’s other novel The Hunger, you need to know that this novel is paced differently but I enjoyed it. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.