Adrift Adrift Series Book 1 edition by KR Griffiths Literature Fiction eBooks
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For artist Dan Bellamy and his new bride Elaine, a trip on the world's biggest, newest cruise ship represents more than just the honeymoon of a lifetime it is also a celebration of the progress Dan has made toward beating the agoraphobia that has plagued him since he suffered a horrific knife attack two years earlier.
The ship is a perfect floating paradise, but when Dan spots what he thinks is a body being thrown overboard, he begins to suspect that not everybody aboard the Oceanus is there for a vacation.
Soon, Dan will discover that there are some things worse than murder, and the body he saw is just the beginning. Because something is coming for the passengers on the Oceanus.
Something that isn't supposed to exist...
Adrift Adrift Series Book 1 edition by KR Griffiths Literature Fiction eBooks
Fascinating new take on an old mythos.I (usually) love when an author is brave enough to take an established mythos and give it their twist. That is the case here.
That it takes place aboard a ship at sea ups the ante for me. The sense that this is a place closed off and out of reach of the world lends more menace and desperation to the events.
The characters were plausible and (for the most part) likeable, and I grew to care for them. Even the "bad guys" had their shades of grey.
Since I'm catching up on reviewing recent reads, I can say I already bought and read the sequel immediately (review to follow).
Highly recommended.
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Adrift Adrift Series Book 1 edition by KR Griffiths Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
From horrorunderground.org
Adrift
Self-publish/Sinister Grin Press Limited Edition Hardcover
Author K. R. Griffiths
Rating 4.5/5
I am a sucker for Sinister Grin Press’s covers. It was no shock when a couple of weeks ago, I saw the preorder announcement for K. R. Griffith’sAdrift, I was overcome with desire to purchase it. Given that the limited edition hardcover does not ship until June, I could not wait that long. I hopped online and purchased the eBook version and began to devour it.
The premise is pretty intriguing in its own right. Dan, an artist that is overcoming agoraphobia and PTSD brought on by an attempted murder, goes on a honeymoon with his newlywed, Elaine. The couple decides to take a cruise on the new ship Oceanus, a hulking new cruise ship that is large enough to be a floating luxury paradise. Quickly after getting settled in, Dan spots a body being thrown overboard. Given that he is prone to panic attacks, he reports the observation to the ship’s security team. From there, the story spirals out of control.
Adrift is a monster story. It is classic in many ways while completely turning old horror stereotypes on their head. I cannot describe much regarding this as the plot has many twists and turns. Therefore, you would be well served to go in as blind as I did when reading this novel.
The monsters in Adrift are nasty and brutal. The book opens with a woman running down the alley in fear. She ends up being brought back to the place where she was running from, only to be coerced into slicing off chunks of her own body and feeding it to one of the creatures piece by piece. This is in just the first few pages!
As stated earlier, Dan, one of the novel’s main characters, suffers from agoraphobia and crippling panic attacks. Griffiths’ writing is so absurdly well written that the moments of panic and fear from the character’s natural emotions are just as tense as when he is on the run from the creatures. There is a large portion of the first half of the novel where Dan’s own fear and thoughts are the driving force of tension.
Adrift breaks away at a quick pace from the opening sentence. There is a lot of story and world building that is done on the run. Characters are established with crystal clarity in just a short amount of time and die off just as quickly as you begin to care. K. R. Griffiths’ writing is brimming with so much creativity that you never know where the story is going to take you.
Before Adrift, I was unfamiliar with K. R. Griffiths’ work. Needless to say, I will be hunting down his other works. Adrift is a tremendous body of work that begs to never be put down. The world that has been established is one that I hope to see more of. According to Griffiths’ site, he is already working on a sequel tentatively titled The Black River. In the meantime, you can pre-order the limited edition hardcover here at Sinister Grin Press or purchase the eBook on .
I was debating between 3 and four stars. It was close. I am a big horror fan, but this is not my kind of horror book. I love books like Andrew Van Wey's Forsaken, about an evil painting that haunts the people around it. I love a good ghost story with a solid mystery behind it. Action-packed monster stories like this, with lots of intrigue and fighting are less my cup of tea. But I am reviewing it for what it is, not for my taste. In the second half of the book and especially near the end, this got very exciting. But I am subtracting one star because it got to nearly page 100 before anything interesting really happened and it wasn't until nearly half the book that it really picked up the pace. I found the beginning rather boring. Still, the ending was exciting and I can see this turning into a series. I agree with the reviewer that said there are big holes in it. So you have to suspend disbelief. I won't be reading more of these, but if monsters and fighting and intrigue are your thing, then go for it.
Writing reviews are often simple, this one I had to really thing about. I had to write one, the author is brilliant. His story moves at a pace that is amazing given the fact that the "bad thing" is not revealed for quite some time. I loved the suspense and the waiting to find out what this "evil creature" was. It was an intense ride. On one hand you have the suspense of finding out what the terrible secret is, and on the other there is this neurotic man trying to overcome agoraphobia (in his case, extreme anxiety and panic when in public settings). He will drive the story forward when the brothers are not. Suspense, anxiety, and fear are in every page.
I see he is writing a sequel, I am so excited!
Newlywed’s Dan and Elaine are on a honeymoon cruise. They’re starting a new life together and hoping that Dan can make more headway dealing with his agoraphobia. It sounds romantic and hopeful. Now, this is the author’s cue to toss in the monkey wrench. Dan sees what appears to be a body being tossed overboard. That mystery soon takes a back seat when a mysterious container is dropped on board and out pours things more fiendish than his phobia could dream up.
Putting a bunch of people in a life threatening situation with nowhere to run is a favorite scenario for me. I enjoy trying to guess who steps up to the plate, who tucks tail and runs and who becomes part of the menu. There’s plenty of character’s to choose from and with only a few I actually was pulling for, that left a bunch as appetizers.
Adrift would be a killer movie. A whole lot of runnin and screamin and good old horror on the high seas. I ate it up.
Fascinating new take on an old mythos.
I (usually) love when an author is brave enough to take an established mythos and give it their twist. That is the case here.
That it takes place aboard a ship at sea ups the ante for me. The sense that this is a place closed off and out of reach of the world lends more menace and desperation to the events.
The characters were plausible and (for the most part) likeable, and I grew to care for them. Even the "bad guys" had their shades of grey.
Since I'm catching up on reviewing recent reads, I can say I already bought and read the sequel immediately (review to follow).
Highly recommended.
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