THE CHAMBER BY WILL DEAN

I wanted to love this one but I think the book was too informational about saturation diving which made the murder mystery aspect feel like it was just written in as filler. 

Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: August 6, 2024
Genre: Mystery
Series: None
Pages: 348
Format: eBook Source: Atria

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?

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This is a hard one for me to rate. Did I like it? Yes. But were there things that irritated me? Also, yes lol. The Chamber is certainly a claustrophobic, locked room mystery and the feeling of dread was palpable. But the suspense was overshadowed by the constant info dump about diving. Not only that, but I don’t think it was very clear WHO was behind the murders. It’s up to readers to decide whether it was one character who has weird and very bad thoughts or the person who was accused. As a reader (and this is my personal preference) I like clear answers, and this one had me with way more questions than the answers I craved when I got to the end.

I guess it all boils down to this. Would I recommend it? Maybe. If you like to learn something new while reading and diving is an interest, then I think you’d like this one. If you don’t like the constant info dump, then it may not be the book for you. I know there are many Will Dean fans out there and I definitely recommend reading his books at least once, but some readers may not enjoy his style as much as another person would. I’ll give his books one more try before I decide if he’s a miss for me (his previous book that I read was The Last One which I gave 3 stars as well).


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