Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher on Netgalley. Thanks! All opinions are my own.




Book: The Deep




Author: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes




Book Series: Standalone




Rating: 4.5/5




Diversity: LGBT friendly! Main ff romance, mm side romance, intersex, gender fluidity, they/them pronouns! Everyone in this book is Black!




Publication Date: November 5, 2019




Genre: Fantasy




Recommended Age: 17+ (slavery, death, violence, suicide attempt TW, suicide mentions TW, remembering)




Publisher: Saga Press




Pages: 176




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Synopsis: Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.




Review: This book is super unique! I loved how the book was told and I love the premise of this book. It’s a great read and I loved how LGBT friendly this book was! The writing is amazing and it really draws emotions out of you.




However, I did feel like the world building could have been better and that the pacing was very slow. Not necessarily bad things, just things not for me.




Verdict: Definitely recommend this read!