My Assessment With Spoilers for The Chamber by Will Dean discusses how I (principally) loved the writer’s prior e-book, The Final One, a thriller set on an ocean liner. So I made a decision to attempt The Chamber, which turned out to be a chilling locked room thriller with a really uncommon setting. What did I believe? Will you prefer it? Let’s talk about!
The Chamber by Will Dean: Overview
- Revealed within the US on August 6, 2024 by Atria/Emily Bestler
- Due to the writer for the advance assessment copy
- 352 pages
- Additionally by this writer: The Final Factor to Burn, First Born, The Final One, and a collection of Swedish scans Noir mysteries
The Chamber by Will Dean: Jen’s Fast Take
- To me, The Chamber had a really totally different really feel than The Final One.
- One of many extra distinctive Locked Room Mysteries I’ve learn
- The Chamber included numerous scientific/technical explanations of saturation diving, one thing I used to be utterly unfamiliar with.
- A VERY uncommon and intensely claustrophobic setting
- I felt this excessive model of a locked room thriller did restrict the character improvement and the thriller plot
Assessment of The Chamber by Will Dean
If you happen to love a Locked Room Thriller, The Chamber has one of many extra uncommon locked room settings I’ve seen.
Six individuals set off on a month-long work mission. They’re saturation divers whose job is to keep up oil pipelines situated deep underneath the North Sea, off the japanese coast of Scotland.
To do that upkeep, they might be locked in a small hyperbaric saturation chamber and despatched to the underside of the ocean. From there, they are going to take turns occurring day-long work assignments in a diving bell. Their wants (like meals, nutritional vitamins, and provides) are offered by a totally staffed DSV (dive help vessel).
Significantly, the data in that paragraph would have been arduous for me to piece collectively by simply studying the e-book. I discovered this text useful and this area actually must be a Discovery Channel collection.
So, the place’s the thriller? One after the other, the sat divers begin dying. The chamber is a harmful place, the place germs and micro organism can unfold like wildfire and one unsuitable transfer can spell catastrophe. However this appears totally different. Accident, or homicide?
The energy of The Chamber to me was its uncommon setting
I’m claustrophobic and located studying this e-book virtually insufferable. Like being buried alive.
For me, the negatives of The Chamber have been a number of:
Given the size of the e-book and all the reason of the setting that was wanted, there was not a lot time for character improvement.
Due to the e-book’s uncommon setting, the story required a considerable amount of info-dumping.
To me, the ending that felt a bit unsatisfying. The suspense within the e-book was larger than any sense of thriller, if that is sensible. I’ll clarify extra within the spoiler part beneath.
If you’re in search of one thing utterly totally different within the locked room lane, give The Chamber a attempt.
Spoilers for the Chamber by Will Dean
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