This started out so strong: Tempest is an orphan, desperately trying to earn the money to revive her drowned sister (a process that only lasts one day, but will be enough time for Tempest to find out why Elysea never told her the truth about how their parents died). Then hijinks ensue! Tempest and Elysea break out of the facility to use Elysea's final 24 hours to find out if their parents are still alive!

And then all the steam runs out and the rest of the book scrapes by on fumes.

There is a forced, awkward romance between Lor and Tempest which surprisingly ends with Lore's death to save Elysea. This isn't a good book at all, but I do respect Scholte's choice not to drag it out into an excruciating love sick trilogy.