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Digital ARC received from NetGalley.
This one was a hard one to pin down. I picked it because it seemed like such an odd premise. In ways I could see Gary Paulsen fans enjoying this book because of the survival aspects. It centers heavily around every day aspects like where you go to the bathroom on a jellyfish (but not actually a jellyfish) and trying to escape a creature that doesn’t want you to leave. It was hard to place ages of the kids. Sometimes they seemed young and like middle grade students while other times they seemed older.
There were a lot of gaps I wanted filled in like more information about the strange people that showed up and where did the adults go and why did they just disappear and abandon the kids.
This one was a hard one to pin down. I picked it because it seemed like such an odd premise. In ways I could see Gary Paulsen fans enjoying this book because of the survival aspects. It centers heavily around every day aspects like where you go to the bathroom on a jellyfish (but not actually a jellyfish) and trying to escape a creature that doesn’t want you to leave. It was hard to place ages of the kids. Sometimes they seemed young and like middle grade students while other times they seemed older.