Deeplight
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
One of our finest storytellers,' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
This macabre YA adventure, with a touch of Lovecraftian steampunk, features underwater exploration, monsters of the deep, relic-based technology and questions of loyalty.
The gods are dead. About fifty years ago they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why.
In an alternative world, fifty years after the death of the gods, a fifteen-year-old boy, Hark, finds the still beating heart of a terrifying deity and uses it to try to save his best friend. Hark risks everything to keep the heart out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists and secret fanatical cults, to try to use it to sustain the life of his best friend, who is gradually and eerily transforming. But how long should someone stay loyal to a friend who is himself becoming a monster?
Customer Reviews
Quite good
A very good book overall. There’s a great sense of tension. I could go on and on about how much I liked it. My biggest complaint isn’t even about the core narrative. The author rather unsubtly tries to include the message that fear always leads people to make bad decisions and it twists everything it touches. That’s obviously not true. Fear isn’t necessarily irrational or overpowering. It’s part of any sane human mind, because it’s rooted in an awareness of your own limitations. The author also conflates fear with superstition, which is again false. But this doesn’t affect the actual story.