Hachette Audio

9781668638064

STARRED REVIEW

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

Part mystery, part slowly building romance, Sylvie Cathrall’s lyrical fantasy, A Letter to the Luminous Deep, utilizes poignant details and quaint language to conjure an evocative underwater world.

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Review of ‘A Letter to the Luminous Deep’

Sylvie Cathrall's debut fantasy, a series opener, offers an aquatic variation on dark academia, unfolding entirely through a series of letters and other documents. Set 1,000 years after a mysterious event called "the Dive" sent almost all of humankind underwater, A Letter to the Luminous Deep (12.5 hours) begins with reclusive E. Cidnosin writing to…

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