What Lurks Beneath

I did finish the book, and honestly I feel so conflicted. While I enjoyed the book, I found that the storytelling was very...strange. Several points in the book, there are scenes where the storytelling become erratic and hard to follow. This becomes especially apparent when it's an action scene. There is rarely just one event happening to describe, it's two or more happening co-currently, which makes the confusing writing even harder to follow when we switch from perspective to perspective. Some writers invoke an imagine in the mind when their writing is read; for me, Lockwood's writing does not do this. Instead, I find myself struggling to make an image in my head to follow the story, causing me to sometimes backtrack since I feel as if I missed something.

This issue of erratic and hard to follow writing becomes more and more apparent as the book goes on, until the last 100-ish pages where I'm on and off confused. A great example of this is the whole section with the manta ray being moved to the sea. I felt like we were following so many different points of view, it was disorientating. Sometimes, we would flash back to the progress of the manta ray being moved, mixed in with two or three of the POVs.