Book Review: Dark Life by Kat Falls

Dark Life is set in a dystopian future where people live in stack cities, apartment buildings after apartment buildings are scrunched close together, and nobody has land of their own. Every inch of land in America is devoted to city and places where people live. So where is food harvested, since there is no room for farms? On the ocean floor.

Ty, the narrator, is the one of the settlers on the ocean floor, and has always helped his parents farm livestock and undersea plants. That is, until Gemma shows up, a Topsider, seeking her long-lost brother. But after a homestead is wrecked by the Seablite Gang, the government cut the territory's supplies off until they catch the members of the gang, dead or alive. Ty has to fight for his home, the only one he has ever known.

This might be something you'd want to read if you enjoyed the Hunger Games. I thoroughly enjoyed Dark Life and plan to buy the next book in the series, Rip Tide, as soon as possible.

It is a fairly easy read, and I would say ages eleven and up should read it, just because of a few kisses that aren't described in detail and some violence. There is no foul language, unlike many other young adult books.

I'd give it a 9 out of 10 overall because of the character maturity, it was well written, and I just couldn't put it down.

~Just 1 Girl~