ARC Review: Undertow by Michael Buckley
Synopsis:
Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when
she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling
warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over
the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town
transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other.
When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom,
assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one, and
there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only, what if the
Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanity’s only hope
of survival? Because the real enemy is coming. And it’s more terrifying than
anything the world has ever seen.
My Review:
5 stars
What can I say? ...... This book is absolutely amazing! I
have been in a reading slump for a while now and have found it incredibly hard
to get into a book. Once I started reading Undertow late one evening the slump
was destroyed. I could not put this book down!
In Undertow the Alphas come from their underwater world onto
shores of Coney Island and stay. Lyric Walker witnessed it all...but what
exactly is going on?
This is a wonderful take on the people of the sea, nothing
like our typical siren/mermaid goddesses. This story is like none I have read
before and I cannot wait to get me hands on the next book! This is my first
book by this author and it has been added as one of my favorites.
Author:
New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley was born
in Akron, Ohio. He tried his hand as a stand-up comic and lead singer for a
punk rock back before attending Ohio University. After graduating with honors
he moved to New York City to be an intern on the Late Show with David Letterman
which led to stints developing programming for Discovery Networks, MTV, MTV
Animation and Klasky Csupo (producers of Nickelodeon’s Rugrats). Today he lives
in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Alison, and their son Finn.
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