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“Twenty-four hours with your loved one didn’t make it any easier to say goodbye, no mater what Palindromena promised. There was no closure. There never would be.”

The Vanishing Deep has to be one of the most unique worlds I have ever read. Scholte really knows how to have spectacular world building and such an amazing plot. The book takes place literally on the ocean, the “Old World” which is our world today sank underwater. The entire world went underwater and so now these people survive on reefs and metal buildings that they have built by diving under and collecting the Old-World wreckage. I really love how in depth the descriptions got, I think it made it much more realistic, and I could picture this world and it was really astounding to even think about.

We follow two characters, Tempe and Lor. Tempe lives day by day just trying to get by because her whole family is dead. Her goal is to get enough Notes to have her sister come back to life for 24 hours so she can ask her about what happened the night she died. Palindromena is an island where they have figured out how to raise people from the dead for 24 hours, but it is costly. Lor our other main character lives on this island, but he doesn’t work there. He is struggling with some grief of his own and hides in the basement away from everyone. When Tempe finally gets enough Notes to have her sister come back, she makes her way to Palindromena and that’s when Lor and Tempe’s lives intertwine.

I really love how fast paced this was and how it takes place within 24 hours, not to mention it’s a countdown. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time wondering what was going to happen next. While I completely loved everything about this book, I really didn’t like the ending. A part of the ending was incredible, but I just felt let down. I was blown away with the plot twists that happened at the end, but I finished going, “Wait WHAT that’s it???”. I really did enjoy this book and now I’m really looking forward to reading Four Dead Queens.