ABOVE WORLD by Jenn Reese

Rate: 7/10

Okay, so I read this book back in 8th grade and I absolutely LOVED IT. But, also back then it was very easy to captivate my attention. I reread it and one thing is still for certain: I. LOVE. MERMAIDS. I still draw them and I love the fact I can draw a human without the complication of legs and feet.

I mean 

Look at

THESE BABIES

beautiful <3

(All drawings curtesy of yours truly)

Actually the drawing go from least recent to most... First was before I read the book, second was freshman year, and the last was a couple of months ago! (Shamelessly promotes art because ART)

Anyways, the book, the whole reason why you're reading, is about a young kampii in The City of Shifting Tides. A Kampii is a human, essentially, who lives under the sea, and they breath by having tech attached to there throats. When you turn old enough, you swallow basically a seed that turns your feet into a tail. And her little friend, Hoku, is a year younger and is afraid to lose her. *sad face* 

What happens when the kampii tech stops working? The elders hide this. But Aluna sees this and she basically says, "these people are whack yo" (okay so not those exact words BUT PRETTY CLOSE) so she and Hoku both go to where everyone forbids they go: the surface. And what they find up there, no one could prepare them for.

**SPOILER ALERT**

Okay so, basically the above world is totally trashed. And the first thing they see when they get to shore? A bunch of dead, what they call, "Deepfell" which are there enemies. Which basically is a hybrid of a person and a shark, not only dead, but also missing body parts. She ends up finding one on the verge of living, and in a stupid moment of feeling worthless, she attached her tech to the Deepfall, which returned to the sea.

Then as Aluna was choking without her tech  she sees, what they call, "Aviars." Basically bird ladies. Where Hoku takes a fancy to one of them... Hehe xD

SKIPPING A BUNCH IF STUFF, READ IT YA LAZY NERDS

Aluna's sister is captured, and Aluna has to save her, along with Hoku, and a horse boy born human (never got his horsy legs or something like that). She ends up finding out a guy in a tech dome has a Very big fascination with the Kampii. While breeching, she is saved by the Deepfell that she herself saved, and find a crab-mecha girl that kisses horse-boy.

**HAHAHA ALL I'M SAYING FOR NOW**

**END OF SPOILER**

So overall I like this book, but there's a lot of slow sections. But at the same time a lot of fun stories! 

If you find you go to my school, and would like to borrow this book, sadly it is not in the library, but you can talk to a librarian and I'll see if we can work something. Okay? okay!

SEA Ya later! (Bad puns! Yay!)

-Spoiler Alert