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A review by e_ramirez_ortega
Deep Underwater by Irene Luxbacher
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
5.0
This book is profound more than meets the eye. The narrator, Sophia, is traveling under the water to encounter all the beauty and peril of the sea. She becomes an adventurer, a tour guide for the reader journeying with her. "Will you dive down and see? Will you follow me? I know you will. You are brave." Creatures and artifacts are found but they are not the center of the story. They are a lost treasure. Suddenly, she sees her reflection in a mirror. "Deep down I never feel alone."
Only the reflection isn't her, but a doppelganger, a mermaid. "I can always see a friend in me, whose strength lifts me up..." She is carried home to a scene where she is little and with her mother...I can presume.
This story is whimsical and fantastical yet it posseses a deep tone of loneliness, of longing, of a desire to escape to a world where meaning and discovery is found, where memories are buried.
Only the reflection isn't her, but a doppelganger, a mermaid. "I can always see a friend in me, whose strength lifts me up..." She is carried home to a scene where she is little and with her mother...I can presume.
This story is whimsical and fantastical yet it posseses a deep tone of loneliness, of longing, of a desire to escape to a world where meaning and discovery is found, where memories are buried.