{"id":1145,"date":"2018-06-14T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T15:04:24","slug":"book-the-depths-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/14\/book-the-depths-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Depths (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1401641992l\/22387745.jpg\" alt=\"The Depths\" width=\"300\" height=\"469\" \/>The Depths<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2014<br \/>\nAuthor: Nick Thacker<br \/>\nLength: 384 pages<\/p>\n<p><i>The Depths<\/i> will be the last book I read from this author. While <em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/12\/book-the-enigma-strain-2014\/\">The Enigma Strain<\/a><\/em> was passable, <em>The Atlantis Stone<\/em> revealed quite a few weaknesses in his writing style. I had hoped <em>The Depths<\/em> would redeem this author, but unfortunately, that was not the case. There\u2019s too much left unpolished in these books that I cannot recommend people spend their time reading them. In <em>The Depths<\/em>, the main issues lie more with the scientific accuracy and leaps of logic that don\u2019t make sense. There\u2019s still the problem of too many flat and unimportant characters that were present in <em>The Atlantis Stone<\/em>, but it\u2019s just slightly better than before.<\/p>\n<p>While I don\u2019t want to give away too much of the plot, I felt the writing seemed to be more \u201cstream of consciousness\u201d than something figured out in advance. There are a few main characters, and a basic idea that eventually becomes the central conflict of the plot, but the actions that lead these characters to the discoveries that drive the plot don\u2019t make sense. They feel forced, almost as if these events\/actions <em>have<\/em> to happen to progress the story. And don\u2019t even get me started about providing detailed backstory for minor characters that cease to be relevant to the story immediately after their flashbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Scientifically, there was too much in <em>The Depths<\/em> that was unbelievable. Considering the scale of the operation described in this book, there\u2019s no way it could have remained hidden for 30 years, let alone even be created 30 years ago. I\u2019m OK with stretching physics a little bit to provide an interesting story, but so much of this story broke the science, as well as the logic of human interactions. There\u2019s no way a divorced couple would just happen to board a submarine to search for their missing son. I also didn\u2019t understand the need for the investigator side-story, since it had no bearing on the plot at all.<\/p>\n<p>A book that needs a second look from beta readers and editors, I give <em>The Depths<\/em> 1.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Depths Year: 2014 Author: Nick Thacker Length: 384 pages The Depths will be the last book I read from this author. While The Enigma Strain was passable, The Atlantis Stone revealed quite a few weaknesses in his writing style. I had hoped The Depths would redeem this author, but unfortunately, that was not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,54],"tags":[26,55,1323,1343,1262,1249,8,1342,1324],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-5-stars","category-book","tag-26","tag-book","tag-confusing","tag-continuity","tag-errors","tag-nick-thacker","tag-review","tag-the-depths","tag-too-many-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}