Last year I fell in love with The Hunchback Assignments. It was my favourite book of the year.I received my ARC of the sequel, The Dark Deeps, yesterday at work. I, literally, devoured it overnight. It was that good.Picking up shortly after the events of Hunchback Modo and Octavia are given an assignment - to find half-French, half-Japanese spy Colette Chiyoko Brunet. To find her Octavia and Modo must pose as husband and wife and infiltrate the last known location of Colette - code name Ictineo. Arthur Slade's brilliant imagination takes us from Britain to Iceland to the bottom of the sea in this Verne-ish amalgamation that will please readers. I loved this more than the first, if that is even remotely possible.5 out of 5 stars.-Review courtesy of www.bibliopunkk.net