From Below has her signature paranormal elements in the plot but it's also creepy as hell and the claustrophobic moments in the book are fantastic. I would have also expected that the hashes would be of the original image, instead of the image with the newer header ( https://forum.no-intro.org/viewtopic.php?t=6772). I thought it was a brilliantly unique idea to format this novel by going to the past of the SS Arcadia and then the present with explorers to figure out why this weird ship mysteriously vanished. My favorite reading genres are horror, mystery, suspense, and thriller so I immediately started to get into this story as it was unfolding. Unfortunately, things started to get a bit too slow for my taste and drag on for long periods of time while reading.

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I have read quite a few books by author, Darcy Coates, but I think this book is one of her best books yet! The story just grabbed me right away and took me on a fast pace into the deep sea as the tension of the book took me on a roller coaster ride of emotions from breath-hitching moments of anxiety to throat closing claustrophobic atmospheric intensity as I barreled my way through the storyline! Which brings me to my next problem with this read: the characters. I found that most of the characters in this book felt really underdeveloped. We keep being told how the characters are, but some of them consistently act contrary to what we are being told throughout the story. (Cove is supposed to care about her team's safety above everything, yet she is constantly making bad decisions that put her team in danger. Roy was presented as reliable and experienced in diving, yet caused a lot of problems for the team throughout the story.) Additionally, the motivations for most of these actions felt very weak and unconvincing to me.The dark deep realms of the ocean, a claustrophobic underwater world - and scene of The SS Arcadia’s final resting place.

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It is important to note that the majority of the themes explored in this book deal with sensitive subject matters. My review, therefore, touches on these topics as well. Many people might find the subject matters of the book as well as those detailed in my review overwhelming. I would suggest you steer clear of both if this is the case. Please note that from this point forward I will be writing about matters which contain reflections on self-mutilation, mental illness, suicide, murder, & others. Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia, 2004. Distress calls in the form of garbled messages, were received from the SS Arcadia in her last hours - messages that no one was able to understand, couldn’t make any sense of them, but perhaps this dive, sponsored by Vivitech who will be using the footage for a forthcoming documentary, will finally reveal what really happened.From below" has just the right mix of modern tetris rotation system with the DAS precision of classic tetris. 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 This was my introduction to the work of Darcy Coates and was an excellent starting point. I'm eager to find out what else she has in store for horror readers. The best summation/elevator pitch I can think of to describe this is extreme claustrophobia creepiness under the deep sea.. And the actual horror of the ship is never explained. The closest description any of the characters get to them is calling them "zombies." So yeah, they're ocean zombies... but not, because they make it clear they don't want to eat the divers, just keep them entombed in the ship with them. Why? Dunno. How? Dunno. At one point, it's implied that the carbon dioxide awakens them, but then it's later implied that it's the simple presence of other living creatures. Unclear. Unexplained. Also? Where'd they come from? Dunno. Never touched upon. I needed something to explain this story, because everything the divers do is just stupid as hell and utterly inexplicable. The stones of the walls are broken off, and hurdled down at hideous creature. And it just might be enough to