Deeper: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Long
Publisher: Atria Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 12871
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st Atria Books Hardcover Ed
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000U913FC
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
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Product Description
"Hell exists. It is a real, geological, historical place beneath our very feet. And it is inhabited savagely.
In an intense and imaginative tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Long takes readers into the depths of the earth where a primordial intelligence waits in the darkness. A decade has passed since doomed explorers unveiled a nightmare of tunnels and rivers honeycombing the earth's depths. After millennia of suffering terror and predation, humanity's armies descended to destroy the ancient hordes. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a doomed science expedition killed the subterraneans' fabled leader, and suddenly it seemed that evil was dead and all was right with the world again.
Now Deeper arrives to explode that complacency and plunge us back into the sunless abyss. Hell boils up through America's subways and basements to take its revenge and steal our children. Against the backdrop of a looming war with China, a crusade of volunteers races to find the vestiges of a lost race. But a lone explorer, the linguist Ali von Schade, learns that a far greater menace lies in the unexplored heart of the planet. The real Satan can't be killed, and he has been waiting since the beginning of time to gain his freedom. Man and his pitiless enemies are mere pawns in the greatest escape ever devised.
Mesmerizing and concussive, this darkly brilliant work of imagination galvanizes Jeff Long's reputation as a prodigious talent. At once a love story, the ultimate thriller, and an extreme adventure, Deeper will leave you breathless. "
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 Not as good as Descent November 6, 2008
James R. Eldridge (Seattle, WA USA)
I agree with many of the other reviewers that this effort was less likable than Descent, the first book in the series. Unlike Descent, which I was unable to put down once I started, I found myself skipping entire sections of this book to get to the action scenes. Want my honest advice? Borrow it from a library or purchase it used.
 Solid if not spectacular September 30, 2008
Roland Scruggs
Liked the first book - second is fine, more of the same- I wish the characters would be fleshed out more (explanations,back story,etc) mostly abstracts and open endings.
 Not Descent September 24, 2008
Eleanor L. Hodges
As with so many sequels it was not nearly so good as the original, Descent.
avoid sequels September 17, 2008
Penny A. Nielsen (Monroe, WA USA)
having read Descent several times, and also having enjoyed Jeff Long's other books, I was severely disappointed in Deeper. I was expecting another underground adventure and got a religious, boring, silly story. Nothing was resolved and it left me wanting.
The Descent would have been better standing alone September 12, 2008
HEP
I was blown away by The Descent. I was surprised to see a sequel out; I thought The Descent had ended at an excellent place, but I was happy to reenter The Descent's creepy, dark, gory world. Talk about disappointing. It felt like an entirely different person wrote the second novel. My problems with the novel:
1.) The claustrophobic blackness that Long so successfully cultivates in The Descent is gone. I don't feel the scenery because he doesn't describe it. I don't feel creeped out just by the description of a narrowing passageway or complete and utter blackness.
2.) Satan. Satan alone is a huge issue; his little passages are cutsey and are there to take up space. There is absolutely no logic behind the character either; it doesn't mesh with the Satan we left at the end of The Descent. He's also very over-stressed and given too much significance. His "revelations" don't feel like an 'ah ha!' but far more like a 'get on with it'.
3.) Long tries way too hard to humanize the hadals. I thought he did a good balancing act in the first novel to present savagery mixed with spirituality, but he went overboard in this round.
4.) The characters are all unlikeable. I loved all the characters (protagonists or antagonists) in the first novel. All the characters I loved before are inexplicably different (i.e. no development to speak of), and all the new characters are irritating.
5.) The entire novel felt rushed, as if the details weren't just skimmed out but skipped entirely. I had a lot of issues of the sociology of the hadals in the first novel compared to the second novel. As a group, they behave far differently than they were set up to behave. There were a lot of similar problems.
6.) The government news clips. Boring. Absolutely boring. Instead of the first novel's interesting one-shots thrown in, we get to read a government report every few pages.
7.) Long did a great job *not* explaining things in The Descent. It was real; we don't know much about strange phenomenon, ancient history, etc. Why should we get full, logical explanations in a novel about things that are shrouded in mystery? Well, you get all the explanations you want in Deeper--to the point that it gets tedious.
I have to admit, many of my problems with Deeper spring from my expectations from The Descent. That means that Long did an excellent job on the first in the very least. Deeper was entertaining and would probably have been a fun read had I not compared it to The Descent. For that, I give it 2 stars.
All in all, Deeper has the feel of being here only to serve as a stepping stone for a third novel. If a third Descent book comes out, do hope it's on par with The Descent. If not, Long would have done so much better just to leave The Descent as a great stand-alone.
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