Book Review: Dark Life

Dark Life is a dystopian future book that stands out amongst the rest. It takes place in, unlike every other dystopian future book (which take place after wars wipe out the way the world works today), a world where colossal earthquakes have shattered the world, throwing entire countries into the ocean, tossing everyone together in extremely crammed cities known as stack cities, in which no one has any elbow room.

The only people left in the world with any room to move are the settlers who took to the bottom of the ocean, the Dark Life. They live in massive underwater homesteads, with aquatic farms in which they grow things they can sell on the surface and eat for themselves. Ty is one of these settlers, and was the first person to ever be born in the deep sea, and one day while looking over the edge of a massive underwater canyon, he stumbles into an adventurous young lady around his age named Gemma.

He soon finds out that Gemma is a topsider (someone from above the water) whose brother had disappeared, and he brings her home to ask his parents for help. But a new threat has been rising in this underwater sanctuary. A new gang led by a notorious man named Shade has been raiding homesteads and transport submarines. Survivors of his attacks have said that he has filed his teeth down to points and that he has the ability to blend his skin into his surroundings and use that to seemingly appear from nowhere.

Along with this, rumors are beginning to spread that people born deep sea are born with special powers. Do deep seas born children really have powers? Will Gemma ever find her Brother? Will they ever put a stop to the dangerous Shade? Find out in Kat Fall’s Dark Life.

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