I enjoyed Condie's Matched trilogy, so I thought I'd give this a go. It started out really cool. It parallels one of my all time favorite YA books: The City of Ember. Full of wonderful imagery, I could very clearly picture this underwater society. I was sucked into the intrigue of the story until the last quarter of the book. Then it got a bit 'woo-woo', with too much unexplained magic. I'm down with magic and fantasy (obviously, or I wouldn't have picked up the book). But the way it's employed just seemed to quickly wrap things up to a slapdash conclusion.