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Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and Survival by Phillip Finch

My review

Rating: 5 of 5 stars

I don't think I have it in me to ever even consider a hobby such as cave diving - not even casually. Finch takes the reader deep (really deep) into the dark underwater world of breathing regulators, drysuits, gas mixtures and guidelines to tell the story to two men, Dan and Dave, who have planned an ambitious dive deep into the belly of Africa to rescue the remains of a fellow diver lost years before. From the outset the reader knows that someone dies and someone will be caught up in an epic struggle to make it out alive - but Finch does a pretty decent job of maintaining the suspense. Even though I had pretty much figured out who it would be, I was still anxious to know the details, and was astonished to find that the climax of the story was not, in fact the end. Finch kept me engaged right up to the very last page. Five stars with no reservations.

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Deeper by Roderick Gordon

My review

Rating: 3 of 5 stars
Good, but not as good as Tunnels. I felt like the author was beating me over the head with a couple of the storylines in this one (yeah, ok, I GET IT ALREADY), and that this book could have easily lost a hundred pages or so in editing.

There's a third in the works, and I hear there are movie talks as well. Figures.

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