Daigle is the master of creating dark, atmospheric tales that will have you suffocating with tension and fear and leave you questioning your own sanity. His writing is so enchanting and hauntingly poetic. I felt like I was in a trance while the song "Blurred Lines" kept playing on repeat in my mind. Imagine the dark, cold isolation of being lost in the ocean somewhere north of Alaska and not being able to determine if the horrors that you are experiencing are real or imagined. My heart was pounding, and my leg was doing its shaky dance. This book was truly terrifying!! I will never step foot on a boat or go swimming in the ocean again. I can't recommend this book enough! A must read!

Thank you to the author, Wicked House Publishing, and NetGalley for granting me early digital access in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Loved this book. The creepiness of having no memory and the atmosphere of being out at sea with a group of strangers was perfect.
Add in that it is almost like a locked room mystery since everyone is on a crabbing boat somewhere in the ocean. I don’t usually like books with a supernatural aspect to them but in this book it was done perfectly.

A Dark and Endless Sea was my first NetGalley advanced copy, and having never read Blaine Daigle before, I honestly did not know what to expect. To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement. Daigle’s writing is illustrative and poetic as he spins a twisted, and at times disturbing, story that blurs the lines between dream and reality.

Without giving too much away, A Dark and Endless Sea is centered around a man named Whitt. Whitt doesn’t know much. He doesn't know where he’s from or how he ended up in a cold seaside town barely remembering his own name. The only thing he seems to remember are the dreams that terrorize him at night. Each night’s sleep is filled with troublesome voices and memories he can’t seem to puzzle together. Desperate to escape the urges in his head, he sets out on a crabbing vessel in the Bering Sea with a crew that may have more in common than he realizes. With all the makings of a classic ghost story, Daigle tells a haunting tale that kept me on my toes from the start.

Spooky, captivating, and dripping with mystery, A Dark and Endless Sea gave me everything I could want from a horror/thriller novel.

I had never read a book by Blaine Daigle before. Now I’m wondering why I hadn’t. This book is creepy in the best ways. The author uses dreams and atmosphere to make you think of all the creepy things coming for you. An atmospheric triumph.
You’ll follow Whitt and the crew of the crab boat Sonia on this nightmare of a journey in the Bering Sea.
Don’t miss your chance to read this book!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This is a harrowing haunting novel about loss and identity set on a crab fishing vessel. The monsters of the deep are real and the claustrophobic environment and hair raising narrative sinks as deep into your bones as the wintery storms in the Bering Sea.

Whitt is a man with no memories. He's alone and wanders from place to place under the pull of a "man" with emerald eyes. He finds himself aboard a shipping boat in Alaska hoping to rid himself of his nightmares and emptiness.

What he and the other crew experiences is anything but comforting as the vastness of the sea and horrific events begin to unfold, revealing secrets about the crew and captain that will change his life forever..

This novel is an emotionally charged but bleak affair with nothing around but the neverending waves and the icy grip of the winter. The work is hard and dangerous but the true danger might just be from his crew mates, the captain, and the mysterious man who whispers things to him. Horrible things. Bloody things.

Blaine Daigle has outdone himself with this one and you definitely want to experience this new nightmare. I highly recommend it!

5+ stars

Blaine is writing on another level. He has a way with words that I can’t explain, other than to say it’s just gorgeous and entrancing. I’m awestruck each time I read his work. This is my third book by Mr Daigle, and I can assure you that every time I read his work, I know and can feel in my bones exactly where I am at, even knowing I have never once been there before.
The way he describes the ocean and mariner life, seems like he’s lived it his whole life (who knows, maybe he has). He captures the isolation and danger of the open sea so well, that it’s suffocating just reading about it.

This book wasted no time drawing me in, and putting me right into the thick of it. The won’t give any details at all, as I do not want to spoil a single thing.
Just be prepared for an intense and emotional ride Through a Dark and Endless Sea.

If you are familiar with Blaine Daigle and his work, you already know what you are signing up for, and if you’re not…why the hell not?