Week 48 Review: Somewhere in the Deep

From Goodreads:

Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents' debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit. After a fight goes terribly wrong, she's banned from the pits. Now hopeless, she is offered a deal: in exchange for the erasure of her debts, she must join and protect a hunting party for a rescue mission deep within the mining caves beneath the island.

Krescent is determined to keep her head down and fulfill her role as the dutiful bodyguard, even though she is trapped underground with her childhood enemy and a company of people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were. As they come across creatures she believed only existed in legends, it becomes clear they are in far more danger than she could have imagined. But someone doesn't want her to make it out alive. And she'll have to figure out who before she's left alone… in the dark.

From the author of Monsters Born and Made comes an action-packed South Asian inspired fantasy that will have your heart racing at every turn.

My Review:
I had a really great time reading this book! I really enjoyed her first book, and while this one is a standalone, it is set in the same world as Monsters Born and Made. Which was great, to be able to explore more of this world!

Kress's life has been pretty awful-she's as good as a slave to pay off her parent's debt, which is a pretty evil system. Putting her life on the line to fight monsters, yeah, not the safest option, but it's a quick way to earn the money that she needs, until one fight goes really wrong and she's blocked from continuing.

That she gets pulled into this party to go into the deeps on a rescue mission, is a change, but it offers the chance to be done with the debt. I really enjoyed exploring further into this world, of what the Deep is like, and learning these details about the world. 

That someone was probably gunning for her, that doesn't want her to come back? I had to know what was going on there, and I loved watching as that whole situation played out. Because of what her parents did that caused the debt, well, yeah, that was such a great part of the story! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Tanvi Berwah! 

Author: Tanvi Berwah
Read: November 30th, 2023
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Loved her first book, and it's a SAC 2023 Book, Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Expected Publication: January 9th 2024 

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars