I'm spoiler tagging this review because while it is quite full of epic rage and I do my best NOT to include outright spoilers, I might let some things slip that could possibly spoil someone who had any interest in this book. Not that I'm recommending this. I hated it. There's a lot of capslock and cursing.

I literally do not even know what to say. I rage finished this book after the 50% mark. I skimmed massive chunks of it because a good 600 pages of this 800 page book was just info dumping and over explaining every single "hard" concept the author brings up. Everything was explained. EVERYTHING. Physics. DNA. Biology. Chemistry. Attempts at alien contact. Sometimes characters got backstory that was either incredibly boring, or incredibly racist - holy SHIT THIS WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLY WEIRD ABOUT INDIGENOUS CANADIANS AS THE AUTHOR TRIED TO SHOEHORN IN SOME LACKLUSTER BIRACIAL I-DON'T-FIT-IN-EITHER-WORLD PLOT EXCEPT THE INDIGENOUS CANADIAN MAIN CHARACTER WHO HAD SELF-HATRED FINDS HIMSELF AND BONDS WITH HIS CULTURE AGAIN WHEN HE GOES BACK HOME TO THE ARCTIC FOR A USELESS SIDE STORY ARC THAT WENT ON WAY TOO LONG JUST LIKE THIS FUCKING SENTENCE IS AAAAHHHHH

I hated every character! Every scientist was exactly the same! The romances never made sense! Why did there have to be some big CIA secret plot to ruin everything in the end? Every American was an asshole! I mean, we can be assholes, but goddamn! Not one single character in this felt like a real person, they were all disaster movie caricatures being puppeted by aliens who don't know exactly how to get human behavior right! Real humans who know that the oceans are trying to kill them wouldn't fucking GO DOWN INTO DEEP SEA DIVES AT 70% INTO THE BOOK. WHY??? WHY!!!! WHY WOULD ANYONE IN THIS FUCKING BOOK STILL GO INTO THE OCEAN???!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE STUPID EXPLANATION FOR WHAT WAS GOING ON.

I am so mad.

This should have just stayed in its lane as the Roland Emmerich disaster movie it is, rather than the author attempting to make grand statements about climate change and humanity and life on earth and, for some reason, pages and pages of religion in the end. This sucked. THIS SUCKED!!!

IT'S 12:30AM AND I'M SO MAD BUT I REFUSED TO LET THIS STUPID SUCKY BOOK BEAT ME! I FINISHED IT! I WON! EXCEPT I'VE COMPLETELY LOST!!