Started: 6.4.26
Finished: 10.4.26
Hardcover
TBR Prompt: Water on the cover
Well, I don't really know what to make of this book! I think it's speculative fiction, maybe a touch of cosmic horror with a bit of sci-fi thrown in for good measure. A group of scientists join a secretive mission to investigate a mountain - several thousand feet higher than Everest - which has suddenly appeared in the middle of the ocean. Time and space behave differently, memories fade, moods and temperaments become erratic. Suspicion and mistrust abound, and inexplicable things are discovered on the mountain. Harold, the physicist of the group, writes letters to his niece as a form of journalling; the majority of the book is told in this epistolary fashion, although it reads more like... well, a novel, rather than letters.
I quite enjoyed the mystery and suspense surrounding the appearance of the mountain, and what they might discover as they climbed towards the summit, but some of the things that they found left me a bit "meh", and at times the themes of science and religion got a bit heavy for me.
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