Ein Schiff gerät in einen undurchdringlichen Nebel. Es sinkt und nur ein paar Besatzungsmitglieder finden sich in Rettungsboten ein. Schnell merken sie dass etwas nicht stimmt. Das Wasser, die Luft und alles um sie herum fühlt sich "anders" an. Plötzlich stoßen sie auf unbekannte und tödliche Kreaturen. Wo sind sie und wie können sie dem Nebel entkommen? Hört sich eigentlich super spannend an....ist es auch, hat aber nach meinem Geschmack etwas Überlänge. Ich mochte die Entwicklungen innerhalb der Crew ganz gerne lesen. Auch die verschiedenen Orte und Begegnungen mit verschiedenen Kreaturen waren alle spannend. Leider gab es mir zu viele Seiten auf denen es um Physik ging, die mich dann irgendwie rausbrachten. (Es war nie mein Lieblingsfach😅😅😅) Grade zum Ende hin wurde es mir damit etwas übertrieben mit Theorien von Raum und Zeit. Alles in allem ein gutes Buch, wenn auch mit Längen.

4,5/5 In my search for cosmic horror in every medium, I stumbled upon this gem. "Dead Sea" is a slow burn of a deeply engaging plot about a bunch of sailors who find themselves in a creepy fog somewhere in the atlantic. As expected, shit goes south rather quickly from there. When talking about the thing that I really liked about this book, I can not say enough about the language it is written in. As already mentioned, our main protagonists are sailors. This is made especially clear to the reader when you take a look at many of the profane quips and jibes both them and the author uses. I really enjoyed it and had some good giggles because of it. Here are some of my favorites: “Case in fucking point, Chesbro. Goddamn Pollard here. You want us all to drop to his level? Sit there with that hang-dog, where-is-my-fucking-mommy look about us? I mean, hell and ice, look at him. Looks like he got cornholed by a striped ape with a bowling pin for a pecker, got his shit packed so tight he don’t know whether to squat and push or call the Roto-Rooter man. You want us all to sink to that?” “Hey, Fabrini,” Saks said, “what’s the difference between your mother and a refrigerator?”“Just fuck off,” Fabrini said. “Wrong. The difference is that your meat don’t fart when you pull it out of a refrigerator.” Saks had to intervene and explain to them just what sort of mud-bathing, shit-eating farmyard critters their mothers had had sex with to give birth to a couple of candy-assed losers like them. Both the dialogue and the relations between the characters keep the slower parts of the book interesting and thrilling. The main thing that needs to be mentioned however is the cosmic horror aspect. In short: it is eerie, haunting, brutal and leaves enough things open to let your mind speculate about every small detail of it. It even hints at a greater lore that is inherent in the universe the story takes place in, which feels very similar to Lovecraft's works, such as the Cthulhu-mythos. If you are familiar with works such as these, you will feel right at home. The only thing that holds this book back for me is that it didn't scare me quite as much as I would have liked it to, but that is just a personal thing of mine. Nevertheless, "Dead Sea" is an excellent piece of cosmic horror that will definitely scratch your Lovecraftesque-wanting itches.