3.75
dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

There's always a damned Judas. Even on the ocean floor. - Usually it's a person, sometimes it's hackable underwater tech. This was almost a tragedy. Let people jusy live geez. Its 2043 FFS and nazis still nazi-ing. SMDH.

This was not the merfolk story I was hoping for. But I dove into this and the water was nice I ended up floating in the words like a happy seal on a boat - not an orca in sight.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Race to obsidoan Atlantis underwater before American White Supremacists Nazis hunt and kill you. There, kinda summed it up just right.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Alan D Stott is a grade-A ass. And White Supremacists ve white supremacing their bull all the way to the depths of the ocean floor. FFS just let people live already.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
Race to Bahari against the clock and supremacists.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Keep his love beside him and his fear wouldn’t matter. He’d be brave for her sake. Brave enough for both of them” (Darden choosing Merlife for the wrong reasons)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ nannie machines
■Underwater BodMod packages
■ I wanted to fill out the questionnaire 🤣
■Dive Propulsion Vehicles
■Pretzels🎵🎶
■Bahari
■CLITIA

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