Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Chamber in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC
Published: August 6, 2024
Summary:
And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so clever” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Last Thing to Burn.
Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters.
Then one of them is found dead in his bunk.
With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch to the chamber can be safely opened, the group must watch one another’s backs at all times. And when another diver is discovered unresponsive, everyone is on edge. What…or who…is taking them out one by one? And will any of them still be alive by the time the four days is up or will paranoia, exhaustion, suspicion, and pressure destroy them all?
My thoughts:
Will Dean has become a favorite author with his unique spin on thrillers and he has managed to do it again with this new one…& I’m not sure when I’ll recover from this reading group experience!
This was such an atmospheric, claustrophobic, tension-filled read that had me on edge the entire time. I’ve never been underwater diving but my husband is a certified scuba diver so I could appreciate what these characters were experiencing & believe me when I say, it’s definitely not anything I’d ever want to experience myself. I loved how we were given diving facts on top of layered story about the characters themselves. It really kept this one moving, especially as divers keep winding up dead in the hyperbaric chamber…all while the crew is deep underwater.
I loved everything about this book – from how it was set up to the way it was resolved. It further cemented my love of Will Dean’s writing. He truly is a master of his craft!
Audio thoughts:
This was fantastic on audio. Narrated by Helen Keeley, I thought she did such a great job bringing out all the emotions and tension during the book.
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