Dear Abigal,

How do you do? I was just reading your piece on your stance for Challenger Deep. As I have just finished reading the book, I completely agree with you. I found where you talked about the repetition of Neal Schusterman to be very true and where you said the book was disappointing.

When you were listing the reasons why you don’t recommend Challenger Deep to others you said that one reason was repetition.  “Challenger Deep was repetitive and all of the scenarios were so similar I thought I had just lost my place in my book.” When you say this, I can relate because many times in the story I got bored due to the many times Caden was in the same situation. Not only was Caden always in the same situation, but the story also never really got interesting. Even in the parts where Caden is deep in the trench (at the end) I never got into the story.

Another thing that I completely agree with you is that Neal Schusterman was trying to make a piece of art to show people what mental illness can truly do but the story was disappointing. “I also thought that Neal Shusterman had good intentions with the plot but an unsuccessful and disappointing outcome.” Again, I thought that the reason for making the book was very sincere, but the final product was dull and not appealing for a reader like myself. Throughout the story there was always a part of me that wanted to become fully immersed in the story. The only problem was that there never was a part that I could picture vividly in my mind, something that great books I can always do.

The whole book I tried and tried to fully absorb the words of the author, Neal Schusterman but I could not. I also would say that I won’t recommend this book to anyone unless they do well with craziness.

 Warmly, your reader.