They Came From The Ocean

Written by Boris Bacic

Narrated by Chris Gatterdam

Exploring the bottom of the ocean is scary. It's worse when something down there is stalking you.

Off the coast of New Zealand, there's an underwater mining facility 8,000 feet under the ocean. The crew stationed there knows that drowning is the least of their worries at such depths. That's why they panic when a maintenance member goes missing while out on a repair mission. He had only eight hours of oxygen, and almost a day has gone by since they lost contact, so the crew can only hope to retrieve his body.

Then they receive a distress call from him - at a depth of 11,000 feet.

A small rescue team suits up and dives to find their missing crewmate. But descending into the unforgiving depths of the ocean is much easier than going back up, and the team learns that too late. Now, stranded at the bottom of the trench without the ability to call for help, they realize that coming down here was a terrible mistake.

There's something far worse down there than the crushing pressure, the ticking timers on their oxygen tanks, and the everlasting darkness that inhabits such depths. And it's hunting them one by one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Boris Bacic
• Release date: Oct 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669621140

Reviews for They Came From The Ocean

[iam · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Interesting idea, but the execution was lacking.
The audiobook narrator had a very robotic voice and performance, but even if the performance had been stellar, the writing was very clunky at times. Transitions between chapters and scenes were always so aprupt that I couldn't follow and it threw me out of the flow every time.

There are a ton of minor inconsistencies that I wouldnt mind on their own, but they happen so often it's starting to grate. So many awkward moments between characters and strange interactions and stereotypes too, not to mention casual homophobia.
And really, a woman who is an engineer who wear short hair constantly getting mistaking as a lesbian??? Did that have to be there??

Even disregarding that, the final conclusion was reaching way too far out into something the book didn't need to be. It could have been a cool idea, except 99% of the novel is so small scale with few characters with no contact to the outside world that it made no sense to try and use the last 1% of the book to make it all seem much bigger with a whole new world history spanning splot.

[doug · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The story itself is a decent monster book... the narrator is far too robotic , I still enjoyed it but the quality.of the recording and narration lost it stars.