By: Sam Defazio

Over the summer I had read a lot of horror stories and decided I needed a break from it for a book or two. I was looking for options but as an avid horror reader not a lot seemed to pique my interest very heavily. Then one Friday evening a friend of my wife and I suggested I read a novel called Sphere by Micheal Crichton if I wanted something different. Without much experience of reading Sci-Fi novels, I was hesitant to give it a chance considering the last Sci-Fi book I read didn’t do anything for me. After the first few chapters were behind me, I started getting deeply invested into what I might now consider one of my favorite books of all time.

The novel centers around a group of different studies from a psychologist, A biochemist, a mathematician, a astrophysicist, and a marine biologist who are sent many feet under the Pacific Ocean by the Navy to look at an unidentified spacecraft discovered out of nowhere. The longer they are under water the more and more things go up in flames. A very mesmerizing and claustrophobic tale that is filled with page turning dangers at every corner with every chapter making the reader look at everything through many different perspectives and an ending that will leave you questioning humanity and even questioning your own. The ocean is already a scary place for a lot of people and this book will not help with those fears. Matter of fact it may make it worse. With my favorite horrific Ocean Floor chapter involving jellyfish which I already find scary and deadly and it gradually added more and more horror to my fears. This is a highlight of one of Crichton’s library of stories and one more people should have in their homes. (5/5)

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