The Vanishing Deep is set 500 years into the future, a time when the "great waves" covered the earth. When I picture the setting, I think the old Kevin Costner movie, Water World. There is very little land in this future world. What land there is, is the exposed tops of what were mountains.
Tempe is the main character in the book. She is a seventeen year old orphan (her parents were believed to be dead, killed in an accident and her older sister drowned). She dives in the ocean, to ruins of the old world. The things that she finds, if useful/valuable in some way, she can trade for notes (their form of money). She is saving so that she can make the trip to Palindromena, where she can pay to have her sister, Elysea, revived for 24 hours. She believes that Elysea holds the answers (and may be responsible) for the death of their parents.
Tempe finds a live plant while diving and trades it for enough notes to make the trip. When she gets there, she meets Lor. He is covering for his best friend Raylan as a Warden. Once he revives Elysea, she gives Tempe information that leads them to breaking out of Palindromena and running from the island. Lor gives chase, calling Raylan in for help.
The rest is a beautiful story. I don't want to give any more spoilers!
What caught my attention the most is that this book was set in this water world. As we are dealing with global warming in our present, it really made me question if this water world could be the future of our planet. Or maybe something similar? There was so much going on, truths being discovered, love and loss...but it was never too much. Every piece of the story fit together perfectly.
The characters were so well thought out that I felt like I had personally met them and loved them. The book was so descriptive that I had no problems "seeing" the story play out. I highly recommend this book!
Tempe is the main character in the book. She is a seventeen year old orphan (her parents were believed to be dead, killed in an accident and her older sister drowned). She dives in the ocean, to ruins of the old world. The things that she finds, if useful/valuable in some way, she can trade for notes (their form of money). She is saving so that she can make the trip to Palindromena, where she can pay to have her sister, Elysea, revived for 24 hours. She believes that Elysea holds the answers (and may be responsible) for the death of their parents.
Tempe finds a live plant while diving and trades it for enough notes to make the trip. When she gets there, she meets Lor. He is covering for his best friend Raylan as a Warden. Once he revives Elysea, she gives Tempe information that leads them to breaking out of Palindromena and running from the island. Lor gives chase, calling Raylan in for help.
The rest is a beautiful story. I don't want to give any more spoilers!
What caught my attention the most is that this book was set in this water world. As we are dealing with global warming in our present, it really made me question if this water world could be the future of our planet. Or maybe something similar? There was so much going on, truths being discovered, love and loss...but it was never too much. Every piece of the story fit together perfectly.
The characters were so well thought out that I felt like I had personally met them and loved them. The book was so descriptive that I had no problems "seeing" the story play out. I highly recommend this book!