Borrowed this one from my cousin since she said she has been trying to read it all the way through for a few years and have yet to finish it. I volunteered to read it for her and let her know if it's worth the read. 

I will say that while I enjoyed this book, I wish it felt less like I was dropped in the middle of the second book in the series. It felt like I was missing a lot of the information about the general world and not enough was not explained. This might have been intentional to get the reader to read the next book in the series, but I was definitely confused at times as to what exactly was going on. 

The reader is forced to use context clues to figure out what is happening in this failing world which I kind of liked, but I still think more could have been explained. I wouldn't have minded it so much if Watts didn't use so much scientific jargon in addition to not giving a lot of information about the world itself. I found myself very confused about what the rifters were actually doing and why majority of the time. 

In my personal opinion, none of the actual things they were doing in the ocean were that important to the story and I would have been happy with a simple explanation. 

Other than that, I really enjoyed the deep dive (pun intended) into the human psyche and the character study this offered.

It's interesting how I actually felt bad for the pedophilic character in the end, and was a bit sad that the one that had anger issues was murdered.

I think the biggest downfall of this book was how the "big reveal" with

Lubin went. I'm not entirely sure what he was talking about. I'm assuming we were supposed to be surprised about something other than him murdering Acton, but I don't know what it was as it was never fully explained.

This definitely would have gotten a 4 star review had that part been handled better. 

Ultimately, I enjoyed this one and found the character studies very interesting but I am not interested in continuing the series.