Below The Surface

Three things on today's post: first, on Monday, April 19th My Pendragon Review appeared on the bookshop blog! Second: on Monday, May 10th my first ARC review (Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror) will appear on the bookshop blog. Third: one of my newest ARCs, Dark Life by Kat Falls, brought me under the sea! Read for yourself...

Dark Life
By: Kat Falls

A Review By: Chase Pixley

In hundreds of years a semi Armageddon will come when the seas rise and cover most of the land and making entire countries collapse into the ocean. People will be forced to live in one of two places: on cramped stack cities on the little land that has not been flooded... or subsea in Bethnic Territory, a place created by scientists as a solution to the stack cities.
Ty was the first kid born in Bethnic Territory and has spent all his life either in or on the water. One day, while visiting Coldsleep Canyon (an underwater canyon that held most of the US’s eastern coast) he meets Gemma, the younger sister of a prospector who went missing. As Ty tries to teach the “topsider” about life subsea the commonwealth government decides that they had enough with the terrible “Seablight Gang”, a robber gang that attacks government ships. They decide to send Bethnic Territory on the search to flush out the gang. The Commonwealth won’t send any more supplies to the trade station, they are reassigning their only doctor to mainland, and all rising homesteads will be seized. Only after the outlaws are caught will the government “consider the benefits of helping Bethnic Territory flourish. It seems helpless to the Bethnic people to capture the gang and their phantom-like leader Shade, a heavily-muscled albino with no sense of mercy. Can Bethnic Territory be saved?
This is one of many five-star books on my book shelf. It spins a tale of love, danger, and deception. Dark Life has a surprise around every turn, a new danger in every chapter, and enough secrets to blow your mind. This is one story that you truly must not judge by its cover. Recommendations? Kids who are fond of action. Read it in May 2010.