A review by carleighdipasquale
Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

2.0

I have to admit, I'm disappointed with this book. I really wanted to love this, I really, really did, but overall the novel was just meh for me. The biggest problem I had with Daughter of Deep Silence was the protagonist, Frances. I feel her character got worse and worse as the story went on. Sure, she was going to be pretty messed up mentally after the shipwreck of the Persephone where she lost her parents, but Frances took mentally unstable to another unneeded level! She is extremely self-centered, and she did things that she knew her parents and Libby wouldn't approve of, yet she was still reckless. Also, if France's was so focused on getting revenge, she probably would not have fallen in love with her so called "enemy". I mean, come on! Who thinks its completely stupid to lust after a boy who you are trying to get revenge on? Me! The whole problem could have been resolved within the first 200 pages or so. Why couldn't France's just go to the police and detective Morales? The book was a waste of time.

Don't even get me started on the ending! This book is pitched as a revenge thriller yet she doesn't even get revenge on the Senator and his son for the Persephone shipwreck! The ending just proved to me how much Frances is coward. Not only does she disguise herself as her best friend for 4 years, insulting Libby with her actions, but she runs away!!! Will the world ever know the actual truth?

I also really hated the writing. I found that the sentences never flowed together nicely, that the writing was really sloppy.

I can't say I'd recommend this, to any one, ever.:(