The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke. Review by Skyler R.

What makes a good book? Some might say a funny, scary or a romance. Well I think that suspense makes a good book. That’s why I read The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke.
The setting was in a variety of places. For the majority it took place deep under the Pacific Ocean, where it was pitch black dark and you couldn’t see a thing and where a couple sea monsters are lurking around. Next for the other part of the story it took place in the base. It was right over the Great Barrier Reef. Finally it took place very little on the surface of the Pacific Ocean were all you could see for miles and miles was water and occasionally a whale surfacing.
There were only a few main characters, but they played an important role. First there was Don. He started and ended as a first warden. He trained Franklin in many different types of submarines and also was his partner in a couple of missions. Next there was Franklin. He started out as a trainee and moved up to a first warden. He actually was first an astronaut and had such a bad accident he couldn’t return to space or his family, which happened to live on Mars, again. Finally there is Indra. She didn’t play a big part, but she was an important person. She was Franklin’s new wife. She also worked at the base as someone who was almost like a marine biologist when Franklin showed up.
The plot consisted of a few parts, and there were a few different sections in the book. First you hear about how Franklin was being trained by Don and how he met Indra. Next there was a short part about how Franklin had remembered being in space, and he was extremely sad and he ran away. Next there was when Franklin and Don go on missions together after not seeing each other for quite a while.
In conclusion I would defiantly recommend this book. It was extremely suspenseful and had a lot of detail. It also had an easy to follow plot but still had but had some very unexpected parts. So this book is well worth reading.