What Stalks the Deep

Hardcover, 192 pages

English language

Published by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-35492-1

The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America

Alex Easton does not want to visit America.

They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.

But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin―who went missing in that very mine―well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...

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enne📚 reviewed What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (Sworn Soldier, #3)

4 stars

Fun, short, quotable.

The first book in this series was a riff on the Fall of the House of Usher (that we read for #SFFBookClub), and the second book intersected quite well with Easton's war trauma. This third book reads like a monster of the week but without much else going on in terms of themes or character development. A good snack of a romp, but not very filling.

(Also, shaking my head that there's no Eugenia Potter in this one either. It does at least have Gallacian rock pronouns going for it though.)

Fun, short, quotable.

The first book in this series was a riff on the Fall of the House of Usher (that we read for #SFFBookClub), and the second book intersected quite well with Easton's war trauma. This third book reads like a monster of the week but without much else going on in terms of themes or character development. A good snack of a romp, but not very filling.

(Also, shaking my head that there's no Eugenia Potter in this one either. It does at least have Gallacian rock pronouns going for it though.)

Andy P.

rated it

October 9