#BlogTour – #BookReview of #TheChamber by Will Dean @willrdean @AlainnaGeorgiou @HodderBooks

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June 10

I'm thrilled to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for excellent standalone thriller The Chamber by Will Dean. Thank you to Alainna from Hodder & Stoughton for giving me the opportunity to read and review this wonderful book.

About the book:

The master of intense suspense, Will Dean, is back! THE CHAMBER follows the success of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE LAST PASSENGER.

HIGH PRESSURE OUTSIDE
On a boat heading out into the North Sea, Ellen Brooke steels herself to spend almost a month locked inside a hyperbaric chamber with five other divers. They are all being paid handsomely for this work - to be lowered each day inside a diving bell to the sea bed, taking it in turns to dive down and repair oil pipes that lie in the dark waters. It is a close knit team and it has to be: any error or loss of trust could be catastrophic.

EXTREME PRESSURE INSIDE
All is going to plan until one of the divers is found unresponsive in his bunk. He hadn't left the chamber. It will take four more days of decompression, locked away together, before the hatch can be opened. Four more days of bare steel, intrusive thoughts, and the constant struggle not to give way to panic. Mind games, exhaustion, suspicion, and, most of all, pressure. And if someone does unlock the door, everyonedies...

About the author:

WILL DEAN grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it's from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.

His debut novel, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball's Book Club, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. The second Tuva Moodyson mystery, Red Snow, was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards, 2019. The Last Thing to Burn was released to widespread acclaim in January 2021. First Born was published in 2022 and The Last Passenger was published on May 11th 2023.

My Review:

The Chamber by Will Dean is an adrenaline fuelled, edge of your seat thriller that really did have me gripped from beginning to end. A very different type of read to his Tuva Moodyson series of books, this is a slow burn of a novel that gradually increases the tension as the story progresses. I had no idea just how palpably intense this page turner of a novel was going to get as the claustrophobic setting slowly takes hold of you by the throat and squeezes every last bit of air from your lungs.

The Chamber is a beautifully written, intense and surprising read, the tension slowly building as the divers find themselves increasingly in danger. The claustrophobic atmosphere of the hyperbaric chamber made me feel anxious as I put myself in the divers shoes, imagining what it would feel like to be trapped in a small space with no means of escape - and with the real possibility that not all of them will make it out alive…

On a boat in the middle of the North Sea, Ellen Brooke is about to spend a month locked inside a hyperbaric chamber with five other divers. But little does she know that this dive is going to be unlike any she has ever done before. And as danger lurks in the depths who, if anyone, is going to make it out alive? With Will Dean's trademark twists and turns, the story steadily gathers pace as the tension builds towards a denouement that is as shocking as it is thrilling.

I don't want to say too much about the plot as to do so would take away from the impact of simply experiencing it for yourself. Will Dean's writing is as mesmerising as ever as The Chamber's secrets are slowly revealed in a suspense filled and unpredictable story that will keep you guessing throughout. And I loved it!

A dark and gripping psychological thriller, The Chamber is a claustrophobic and atmospheric tale that had me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. Will Dean's writing really does get better and better with every book and I can't wait to see what he has in store for us next!

Highly recommended.

The Chamber by Will Dean is available to purchase now: