3.5/5 Stars


This book needs to win some sort of award for originality because it seriously takes the cake (or should I say jellyfish haha). It chronicles the story of a group of people in a post-apocaleptic world who are stuck on top of a giant jellyfish… yes you read that correctly. I was totally in love with the concept of this novel from the get-go and I thought that it was done really well. I thought that the plot was especially handled well. It could’ve easily gotten repetitive, but new developments kept on coming up and I definitely could never have guessed where it would end up. I also enjoyed the unique cast of characters. 


The thing that I didn’t love about this book was the way that time was approached. The author never really made it clear how long these people had been stuck on the jellyfish for or how long it had been between each new plot element. There also wasn’t much discussion of how they had gotten onto the jellyfish or what the main characters’ life had been like before (or even their exact ages, though it was implied that they were teenagers). This all ended up making me feel a little disconnected from the plot and the main character.

I do wish that this book could’ve wowed me a bit more, but it was still definitely worth the read and I was inspired by the author’s creativity. Thank you so much to the publisher for the review copy in exchange for an honest review!