I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

(Side-note: the NetGalley reader stopped working around 75% in, and I had to finish the book in the badly formatted desktop Kindle app, because I can't read on my Kobo ereader since the last update. Yay.)

I always love ocean horror stories, especially if they are queer. Nhung and Covey are two girls with complicated parental relationships - Covey's mother is missing, and Nhung's mother is obsessed with bringing back their dead family members. Also, there is some kind of red algae drowning the water, and people are disappearing.

I liked Noon and Covey and their friends as characters, they were a fun bunch and said interesting things about life and parents. So they were kind of the heart of the book for me. The other big theme is of course Noon being uncomfortable in her body, and trying to find her place. I couldn't figure out if she was meant to be nonbinary or simply rejecting humanity, but it was an interesting character arc.

There is a lot about rape culture, trauma, Vietnamese culture, climate change, weird gender feelings, and body horror, so if you're interested in those themes and also water monsters, then this might be the book for you.