Ty is a confident character with an adventurous spirit which kept me enthralled.Īdditionally, his younger sister Zoe and newcomer Gemma (from the mainland topside) add strong female characters to help him along his journey.

And if that wasn’t fascinating enough, politics, a missing person investigation and family life are thrown into the mix. Things that bite, shock and sting, not to mention drowning or being crushed by pressure.

Told through Ty’s POV we experience how the human race has adapted to live in the oceans depths – living quarters and sea floor farms… with all the dangers that come from the undersurface habitat. I love, love, love marine biology and was delighted with language, slang and snippets of underwater organism characteristics throughout this original tale. I went into this novel with no idea what it was about other that it being science fiction and set in the ocean, and what I got was so much more.Ī futuristic adventure that weaves elements of ocean life into every facet of the story line tickled my girlish heart. But when outlaws’ attacks on government supply ships and settlements… The story follows Ty, who has lived his whole life on his family’s homestead and has dreams of claiming his own stake when he turns eighteen. Set in an apocalyptic future where rising oceans have swallowed up entire regions and people live packed like sardines on the dry land left, DARK LIFE is the harrowing tale of underwater pioneers who have carved out a life for themselves in the harsh deep-sea environment, farming the seafloor in exchange for the land deed. A future Underwater world I want to be a part of!Ī thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world’s first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws.

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