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The World Beneath
The World Beneath: Joe Tesla series #1 | Rebecca Cantrell
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***Winner of International Thriller Writers's Best Ebook Original Novel award!*** Under New York is a vast, dark world: a hundred miles of living, breathing, tunnels. This subterranean labyrinth inhales three million bustling commuters every day. And every day, it breathes them all out again... except for one. Software multi-millionaire Joe Tesla is trapped in those tunnels by his agoraphobia. One by one, he is uncovering their secrets. First, he discovers a bricked-up presidential train car and its deadly cargo--a contagious madness he must contain before it escapes to...The World Beneath. Reviews:"Cantrell's THE WORLD BENEATH simply blew me away: exciting, visceral, inventive, illuminating...shines a light on the beauty and horror hidden just out of sight beneath the world's greatest city...get ready an adventure like no other." - James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth "Cantrell's unique mystery is set in Manhattan's subway system, and Jeffrey Kafer's spirited narration delivers the story to perfection...Listeners are in for chills as Joe and Edison, his psychiatric service dog, close in on the criminals." -- Audiofile Magazine "The World Beneath is a unique, non-stop action thriller...The author grabs you on the first page and drags you into the dark depths for a wild subway ride that races to a fatal finish and leaves you breathless and begging for more." - Kieran Crowley, New York Times bestselling author of HACK "THE WORLD BENEATH by Rebecca Cantrell is a heart-pounding thriller with an infective puzzle! Rebecca Cantrell brings to life the amazing world beneath the sidewalks of New York...a virtual page-turner!" -- Publisher's Marketplace
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CampbellTaraL
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Overall story concept: intriguing
Overall execution: good, the pacing is fast which makes it a very quick read.

Why a lower rating? The author has a hard time with otherness. Throughout the book, men and women are described as tall, young, intelligent, smaller, beautiful, elderly, or simply as "the man" or "the woman".

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CampbellTaraL Except of the character is black, in which case the author makes sure to describe as "the cheerful black woman" or "a chubby black woman" or "a black man in a business suit" while in the very next sentence describing another man in the scene as simply "a businessman". (Continued) 6y
CampbellTaraL About the third time a black person was distinguished by their skin tone while every other character was described by all their attributes except their skin color, I searched the ebook and confirmed the pattern. (Continued) 6y
CampbellTaraL I'm not insinuating overt racism on the author's part, but I do think editorial dropped the ball here. If you wouldn't describe all characters by their skin color, calling out just one group's coloring makes it clear that you view them as different, as other, from the rest of what you consider humanity. 6y
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CampbellTaraL
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A new day, a new book to read! 😁

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sprainedbrain
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It‘s been a few months since the selection for B&N Readout has grabbed my attention, but I enjoyed the last Cantrell book I read, so I‘m giving this one a shot.

This book is free to read in daily installments on Nook or the Nook app. 😃