![]() ![]() With futuristic technology, the wealthy twins show the reader what life under the sea entails and the world the characters now inhabit. It is Christmas, and Muslim Leyla spends the day with her best friends, twins Theo and Tabby. Her mother has passed away and her father has recently been taken away to an unknown place for an unknown reason. Set in London, 16-year-old Leyla McQueen, a submersible racer, lives alone with her dog Jojo. ![]() It is 2099, and Earth has flooded forcing everyone to live underwater. The story is pretty clean and would have no problem letting my 5th grader read it, even while knowing it will have more appeal to my 8th grader. At times I had to force myself to read through the lulls in the story, while at other times, I sacrificed precious sleep to read just a bit more. At 311 pages, there is a lot to love about this Muslim authored, Muslim protagonist sci-fi/dystopian adventure, but I have so many more questions about everything after reading the book, than I did before I started, that unless the next book (assuming there will be one), really steps it up- all the world building will have fallen flat with the lack of character connection I felt. ![]() ![]() At the risk of sounding pretentious or like I have written a book before, sadly this really reads like a debut novel. ![]()
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