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Behemot by Dominika Rycerz-Jakubiec, Peter Watts, Andrzej Jakubiec
5.0

Okay, I'm not feeling the best this morning, but I've been good and faithful in writing reviews for stuff so far, so I shall persevere. Happy Thanksgiving! That was Thursday, of course, and it's Saturday now, but we're going to have Thanksgiving dinner this evening because it's a sort of cross-Atlantic Thanksgiving and yum. Bleh.

Not much to give thanks for in Behemoth, though, other than thanks for a great book, Mr Watts! I read this one on the phone, too, which got wearying after a while, and if I hadn't been utterly caught up in seeing one horrible thing after another being inflicted on the characters and on the world I might have given up. Yay! Bleh.

Lenie and Ken are in the Atlantic with all the other Rifters and lots of rich people who are hiding from the apocalypse in an underwater habitat called Atlantis. The Rifters are the self-appointed prison guards of the rich, and there has been much unpleasantness, but things have been quiet lately, and Lenie finds herself on quite easy terms with some of the rich, much to the suspicion of her fellow Rifters. So when tensions rise again and threaten to explode, she is torn between the two groups and not trusted by either. It soon becomes apparent that someone on the ravaged surface is searching for them, and Ken and Lenie have to head for the surface to neutralise the threat.

Yeah, loved it in all its apocalyptic glory. That's it. That's all I can muster to say. It's free! Read it! Read them all! Have nightmares and the screaming heebie jeebies! Then find something light and fluffy to neutralise the Watts Effect.