Lying in The Deep by Diana Urban: Review

Lying in The Deep

Lying in The Deep is brutal, unrelenting, and easily my favourite book that I’ve read this year. It’s like Karen M. McManus with less swearing and narrators, but more of everything else. From the opening of the book, “I didn’t realize there’d be this much blood”, to the twist ending, I was hooked. Usually, I don’t finish a book in the span of a week, especially not when I have exams on, but I had to make an exception for this. 

This book is told through the first person, with only one narrator (Jade) and one hell of a ride. It was supposed to be a semester on the sea through Campus on Board, but a couple of murders threw a wrench in that. My only major issue with this is not getting to see everything unfold through Jade’s roommates Navya and/or Divya but when everyone’s a suspect, I guess that wouldn’t work. 

Fans of Karen M. McManus will love this. A murder mystery on the sea, where everything points to the protagonist and she has less than 48 hours to prove her innocence as everyone starts dying – gripping from beginning to end.

Oisín Moran, 17