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    Depth
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    Audiobook9 hours

    Depth

    Written by Lev AC Rosen

    Narrated by Celeste Ciulla

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    DEPTH follows private investigator Simone Pierce in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan submerged and surrounded by unforgiving ocean. Only the tallest skyscrapers are still habitable, fortified by cutting-edge Plasteel and connected by a network of bridges and boats (ranging from hyper-lux to barely seaworthy). A routine case turns into a deadly one and Simone finds herself in the middle of the city's most powerful factions, vying for control of what remains beneath the deadly waters. DEPTH is where Phillip K. Dick meets Raymond Chandler--a post-apocalyptic noir of intrigue, betrayal, romance and violence. Lev AC Rosen is the author of the critically acclaimed ALL MEN OF GENIUS (Tor, 2011). Little Brown Books for Young Readers will publish Rosen's middle grade book WOUNDABOUT in Summer 2015." Phaidon, a publisher best known for its lavishly produced art books, hired Judith Regan as the CEO of a new division at the company called Regan Arts. DEPTH is the lead fiction title for the imprint's Spring 2015 launch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 28, 2015
    ISBN9781490695044
    Depth
    Author

    Lev AC Rosen

    Lev AC Rosen writes books for people of all ages, including the Evander Mills series, which began with the Macavity Award winning Lavender House, and continues with The Bell in the Fog. His most recent young adult novels are Emmett, Lion’s Legacy, and Camp. Rosen’s books have been nominated for Anthony and Lambda Awards and have been selected for Best of lists from The Today Show, Amazon, Library Journal, Buzzfeed, Autostraddle, Forbes, and many others. He lives in NYC with his husband and a very small cat. You can find him online at LevACRosen.com and @LevACRosen

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    • 5/5
      Great story and characters. Would make a great series! Sad when I finished it.
    • 1/5
      Every noir cliché from every book and film you've seen come together with a twist of an implausible sci-fi setting where women are forbidden to wear trousers to form this wholly derivative insult to the genre topped with a cherry of fairytale physics. Maybe if the parody was intentional it wouldn't be so annoying. The twist of having an all female cast (and a gay dude) is novel for about 10 pages and contrived thereon.
      The heroine who is, in her own words, one of the very best of the dozen or so PIs in New York is comically incompetent and solves the case through sheer luck and constant help from everyone around her (including villains!) and it's not played for laughs as there is no humour in the book - only bad clichés: from cop dad, blonde femme fatale to promiscuous gays. Everyone swears like sailors which I guess is meant to be shocking because they are all women and women never swear in the real world.
      The book is close to being so bad it's good. Possibly the worst book I've read, wouldn't have finished it were I not on holiday at the time. Final verdict: rubbish/5.
    • 2/5
      I've had this on my TBR list for quite some time so I am glad to have finally got around to reading it. That said, it's a short book that took me far longer than it should have because I just didn't find the mystery all that compelling (something that surprised me because the summary really sounded promising). My favorite thing about this was the setting which I still want to know more about. I don't know if I'd recommend this one for mystery fans as it's pretty bland on that level. I would read another by Rosen as I think he's got interesting ideas and a good take on climate fiction settings & world-building.
    • 3/5
      Depth by Lev AC Rosen is a recommended detective novel set in a future NYC. Simone Pierce is a private investigator who, when the story opens, is "on the roof of a twenty-four-story building, so the ocean lay four stories down, churning just below the twenty-first floor. The fog was thick, but she could hear the waves lapping at the other buildings around her, and the worn wooden bridges that connected them to one another and to the permanently moored boats that made up New York City. New York, city of bridges and boats."

      Simone is on a routine surveillance case of a husband suspected of cheating when she takes on a second job, escorting Alejandro DeCostas around the city. DeCostas is a visiting European archaeologist who wants to explore NYC looking for a rumored building that is water tight and dry below the sea level. While working both jobs, the surveillance case morphs into something else and takes on a life of its own. Simone is assisted in her inquiries by her friends, Caroline Khan, deputy major, Danny, a fugitive human computer, and Paul Weiss, a cop.

      What is interesting and has great potential at the beginning is the setting - NYC under water and cut off from the rest of a vastly changed USA. Rosen writes:
      "New York, though technically still part of the United States, had long begun to consider itself its own country, hundreds of miles from the Chicago coastline and the conservative, religious mainland. The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial had been airlifted to Salt Lake City, but no one tried moving New York. All the other drowned cities, like DC and Boston, were graveyards now—spires and flat tops of buildings tilting out unevenly from under the water like old headstones. Not New York. Though some older buildings had been worn away by the waves, others, retrofitted and laminated in that technological wonder Glassteel, stayed where they were as the ocean rose, closing off the bottom floors as they filled with water. There were newer buildings, too, designed to withstand the water, and decommissioned boats clever entrepreneurs had bought and moored around the city. There were a million New Yorkers left, and they were stubborn. They built the bridges themselves, and everyone bought personal algae generators and desalination filters for their apartments, stringing them out the windows into the sea. They reassembled their city. They stayed."

      The potential for an intriguing story is all in place. The problem is Rosen has this great setting but neglects to make full use of it. The detective/mystery story is solid, but could easily be transferred to another setting, with some minor changes, and work just as well. This left me with a dilemma. I chose to review Depth based on the setting. The detective story is well written and satisfying but I kept longing for more information on the world. The search for a dry building underwater could just as easily be a search for a secret cache of some other treasure. This reduces the mystery to a formulaic plot that just happens to be set in a changed world and nothing in the plot elevated it above that for me.

      Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Regan Arts for review purposes.


    • 4/5
      If Dashiell Hammett was still writing detective fiction after the polar ice caps melted maybe this is the book he would have written. It certainly has the feel of a noir detective novel like [The Maltese Falcon]. I ripped through this book in about 24 hours.Picture New York City after the polar ice caps all melt and the ocean level rises so only highrises above 21 stories stick out of the water. That is the world of this book and it seems eerily possible. Inhabitants of NYC decided to continue living in the buildings that projected above sea level. Because of their distance from the mainland US with its restrictions they have a unique lifestyle. Simone Pierce can earn a good living as a private investigator and she is good at what she does. At the start of the book she is tailing a man whose wife suspects he is having an affair and his meeting with a beautiful blonde seems to bear that out. But there is something unusual about this meeting and Simone doesn't think it involves sex. When the husband is shot while Simone is tailing him she is sure something else is up. Her investigation continues even when she is suspected of his murder.Clever and well-written.