This was a thrilling, incredible, sci-fi novel that I thought was like a good mix of “The Hunger Games”,
“1984”, and “Water world”. Our protagonist in this story is Leyla McQueen who is a 16-year-old
“Submersible” racer. In Leyla’s world, the water levels have increased so much that the entire human
population is stuck deep underwater in the bottom of what is now a huge ocean. After her father gets
wrongly arrested for a crime she knows he didn’t do, she is left alone at home as the constant fear of
The best way I can describe this book is as sci-fi Les Misérables. Chantine, a thief and con-woman best compared to Éponine, lives in the Frets (slums) of Lattere, but wants nothing more than to leave. To everyone but her family she is known as Théo. Marcellus (most like Marius) is the grandson of General Bonnefaçon, the most powerful man on the planet. His father was a traitor and member of the Vangarde, a rebel group thought to be resurfacing.
