They Came From The Ocean (Creature Encounters)

You taken on journey that will take you under water to strange place that is doing scientific work there. This is where things get real strange because a person goes missing and they are around eight thousand feet deep. This when strange things start to happen to people and equipment they have. The author did a great job with the book you can't stop reading.

Absolutely loved it, the characters were well written, the plot and conflict was amazing. I loved every part of this book and the prologue had me imagining what else could have happened. I recommend this one. 10/10

Just recently started reading his books and I absolutely love them so far! I love sci-fi and horror and when I can get both in one book, it's great. I've always been facinated by what's under our oceans and this was a good story!

Be ready to let your mind TOTALLY relax before you dive into the sea. Reach beyond the waves down to the darkness.

Sea/mountain exploring with some murderous mermaids.

Really good story and a great cast of characters. Full of action and suspense and adventure. Really a great change from reading apocalypse stories all the time. I really enjoyed reading this and recommend reading it to all that love fiction.

Overall this was a really good horror novel. The suspense was great as the crew tries to figure what is going on and what is hunting them. Some of the characters act like cliche horror movie characters, acting like complete idiots and then dying. I kept wondering if the author was actually going to kill everyone off which was nice not knowing. The epilogue was pretty cool, opening up the possibility of sequels. The last line was a great twist as well.Now for the negative. The author spent a lot of time establishing the main character. While this usually isn't a bad thing, this time, it was too much of a good thing. There were several pages that could have been taken out simply because they didn't add anything important to the overall story. The author is also inconsistent when it comes to the ocean. In some places, the characters can move around like normal on the surface, other times, they're flying through the water like they're in space. The pressure also varies wildly. One character implodes from the pressure of the depths they're at due to a compromised suit, but then other characters get their suits torn open like it's nothing and don't implode.I thought it was pretty good and with some little tweaks it could turn into an interesting and scary series

They Came From The Sea was a decent if long-winded B-movie icky bug story. It had a likeable main character and a decent cast of victims. There were enough plot twists to keep things interesting.Told in solid third-person, past-tense, the prose was a bit long-winded, though it didn’t stop my enjoyment of the story. It was also a very slow buildup as the first half of the book was mostly technical details about living in an underwater lab and using the diving suits. Of course, I had to throw science out the window on this one, but that didn’t bother me at all. I still had a good time and the payoff at the end made it worthwhile. Highly recommended.

Here’s all you need to know before starting a Boris Bacic book: it’ll feature fully-rounded characters, will fully immerse you in the story, and will fill up your nightmare-fuel meter till it’s overflowing. Sounds good right?Now, I love anything horror-related set in the ocean, being a self-confessed thalassophobe, claustrophobe (and apparently masochist too!). There’s just something inherently creepy about all those unexplored depths and what could be down there. So naturally this book is my jam.It’d be easy to dismiss this as another deep sea creature feature, and sure there are familiar tropes within (after all, aren’t those part of why we love the horror genre?), but Boris always puts an unexpected twist onto these classic models, and this one is a doozy. I won’t spoil anything here, but I loved the direction this one took, and despite seeming familiar at first, below the surface there’s something unexpected. Pun not intended, but I stand by it.This would definitely make a great movie. I often hesitate to say that about a book because it almost implies that the written word is nothing more than a blueprint or prototype for a ‘better’ or ‘more desirable’ storytelling medium. That’s not what I mean at all. I simply mean that Boris writes in such a cinematic style that you really do see the story unfolding in your mind and I’d love to see the story he has created here realised in a visual medium.Overall, I’d say this is one of my favourite Boris Bacic books so far. It’s really hard to compare many of his novels as they’re all so different and cover a broad variety of topics within the horror genre (the one constant being that they’re all great!), but this one really got me.Oh and as much as this is part a thematic series (Creature Encounters) each book is entirely standalone, so don’t worry about reading them in order necessarily. Just go ahead, take a deep breath and dive in. (That pun WAS intentional).

I have one or two issues with this book. For one thing, it’s a well known fact, according to books I have read on the subject at any rate, that you can’t in fact, hear the sea when you put a shell to your ear, you only thiink you can. Secondly, if there are only two people speaking to one another it’s really not necessary to tell the reader which one is speaking all the time, you can work it out for yourself. The other thing, it’s so intricate that you feel bogged down like you’re really sinking with the submersible in terms of detail that it becomes, for me anyway, just plain boring. I think that, if I were to finish this book I might very well have lost the will to live before the end and in that case, I never would finish it so better to stop now before the book turns me in to a quivering suicidal wreck or else cures me of the insomnia I don’t have.

This is a brilliant read.Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.Recommend reading.I read a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest review.

I'm sure that many of the technical aspects are incorrect, however I really enjoyed the book. I found it hard to put down as the action just went on and on!

Fabulous,creepy claustrophobic reading,you can almost feel the weight of being deep beneath the ocean, hope theres a follow up, please