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Dark Life

por Kat Falls

Series: Dark Life (1)

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When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
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Futuristic dystopian world where some people live and work underwater. Our hero is a teenage boy who helps out on his family's kelp and fish farm underwater, but has an adventurous streak. He discovers something when he's out exploring that shouldn't be where it is and that's just the start of an epic adventure full of mystery and intrigue!

I listened to this audiobook which was randomly recommended by my library and I was HOOKED! Seriously I got so into the story that I would sit for ages in the car after I parked, just to listen. Ever since reading this at the beginning of the summer, I have recommended it to any person who asks me for book recs. This might be tagged as YA, but when you can write a story that is captivating for all ages, then, my friend, it is a book everyone should read! ( )
  nomadreads | Nov 2, 2023 |
I LOVED this book. So much about the ocean and it's wonders but also about pioneer life in a post apocalyptic world. So cool. Can't wait for the sequel this summer! ( )
  panamamama | Aug 2, 2022 |
What do you do when global warming turns out even worse than predicted? When the polar icecaps melt and submerge most of the land on Earth? Solution: colonize the bottom of the ocean. From a premise that's slightly preposterous comes an engaging and enchanting science fiction tale.

It all starts when Ty, a young man born and raised underwater, finds a downed sub attacked by the outlaw Seablite Gang. Inside, he finds a surface-dweller girl named Gemma, who claims to have come to Benthic Territory to find her brother. Unfortunately, the very same Seablite Gang is causing so much trouble for the government that they are considering shutting down Benthic Territory for good if the locals don't form a posse and haul them in. Thus, our two main characters get wrapped up in a thrilling adventure of searching for Gemma's brother while avoiding the Seablite Gang and other such perils.

Speaking of our main characters, I don't often care for child protagonists (teenagers or otherwise), but Ty and Gemma are both well developed and likeable. Ty, though young, is a brave and experienced young man. He's kind of cynical, too, and has a tendency to keep secrets, hinting at a traumatic past. Gemma has baggage of her own. Losing her only other family member and having to put up with the government shuffling her around have toughened her up. She's got a stubborn resolve, and the defiance to face her problems with her head held high. There are several other supporting characters, but few of them are particularly well defined.

Of course, the other thing I really like about this book is the worldbuilding. The author addresses the obvious objections to living on the sea floor with simple, elegant ideas. If you swam around on the sea floor, wouldn't you be crushed by the pressure? Perhaps not, if instead of air your lungs were filled with oxygen rich liquid. Liquigen, she calls it. How are you supposed to farm on the dark, cold sea floor? They fence in their land with a perpetual wall of bubbles, which allows them to light and heat the water of their farmsteads, keeping it from mixing with the freezing cold water outside and discouraging their fish from swimming out or predators swimming in. Wouldn't the ocean currents put dangerous stresses on any sea-floor structures? Not if they were flexible! Their houses are basically translucent inflated plastic domes. They even designed them to look like giant jellyfish. Such elegance lends an air (ha) of wonder to the whole affair, as well as its beautiful imagery.

One other thing I thought was cool: the Benthic Territory has a strong Wild West feel to it. They have a Subsea Homestead Act: "Stake a claim, farm it for five years, and it's yours!" They have a small, tight-knit community of farmers and prospectors all centered around a Trade Station (like a trading post, get it?). There's a gang of outlaws running around. They have a corrupt, useless governor, and a corrupt, useless ranger, and Ty even calls his parents "Ma" and "Pa."

For what it is, it's basically flawless. It's got great characters, great story and action, great worldbuilding and imagery, all based on a single great idea. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is just that I tend to prefer weirder, more fantastic ideas than science fiction can usually provide, and that my knowledge of science blows a giant hole in the idea in the first place. There's not enough water to flood the Earth to the extent that it's implied in the book, and even then, we're not exactly short on space. We actually have vastly more wilderness than civilization, it's just that we don't utilize it. Oh well. I enjoyed the crap out of it, anyway. ( )
  perrywatson | Jan 6, 2022 |
This book was hands down amazing!! ( )
  Fireformed | Aug 7, 2020 |
Your under the sea and there is a kid who finds his way to find out his loxygen is running out and is going back home to see that is family has been rob and that is running away and ran into a sand shark, and he gets attack and runs away to find an outsider (someone that is not a sea dweller) and they run into a gang member that is trying to kill them but he misses his shot and they run away. Farther into the story he runs into them again and injures this outsider called Maluna and they get out of there.

In general this book isn't the best and the story/plot didn't make sense to me it made me feel like it was like another book sometimes from all the senses and it just make my head hurt and that is why I just gave it a 3 as my rate. ( )
  Owen.G3 | Jan 17, 2019 |
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I peered into the deep-sea canyon, hoping to spot a toppled skyscraper. Maybe even the Statue of Liberty. But there was no sign of the old East Coast, just a sheer drop into darkness.
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