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A review by hazelalaska
The Fires Beneath the Sea by Lydia Millet
3.0
2.5
I found this book when I was working at my local library and doing the discards since they were weeding the collection of things that people weren’t checking out to make more room. I thought that the synopsis was interesting and that I might find a hidden gem here but that wasn’t the case. Nothing is explained at all. The characters are in the dark, but so are the readers. There’s a lot of extraordinary stuff going on in the book but there’s no reasons given for it to exist or even what’s really happening.
The story follows 13 year old Cara and her family, invluding her older brother Max and her 10 year old brother Jax after the mysterious disappearance of their mother. After I finished reading, I realized that as far as I can remember, the circumstances around her disappearance are never revealed. It just days that she disappeared on June 20th, but not what actually happened, other than the fact that she left a cryptic note behind.
Jax, Cara’s younger brother, is a sort of genius with strange abilities, somewhat like Charles Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time. He was an intereating character, given this, and he doesn’t act like your normal 10 year old boy.
Spoilers!!!
One thing I found interesting was that Jax is adopted, although it was only mentioned once at the beginning of the book. I’m assuming that this has some connection to the fact that he has the ability to “ping” or read other people’s minds. It also probably has somethig to do with their mom and whatever is actually going on, but unfortunately nothing was revealed in this book as to what that actually was, other than some kind of war between good and evil.
I found this book when I was working at my local library and doing the discards since they were weeding the collection of things that people weren’t checking out to make more room. I thought that the synopsis was interesting and that I might find a hidden gem here but that wasn’t the case. Nothing is explained at all. The characters are in the dark, but so are the readers. There’s a lot of extraordinary stuff going on in the book but there’s no reasons given for it to exist or even what’s really happening.
The story follows 13 year old Cara and her family, invluding her older brother Max and her 10 year old brother Jax after the mysterious disappearance of their mother. After I finished reading, I realized that as far as I can remember, the circumstances around her disappearance are never revealed. It just days that she disappeared on June 20th, but not what actually happened, other than the fact that she left a cryptic note behind.
Jax, Cara’s younger brother, is a sort of genius with strange abilities, somewhat like Charles Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time. He was an intereating character, given this, and he doesn’t act like your normal 10 year old boy.
Spoilers!!!
One thing I found interesting was that Jax is adopted, although it was only mentioned once at the beginning of the book. I’m assuming that this has some connection to the fact that he has the ability to “ping” or read other people’s minds. It also probably has somethig to do with their mom and whatever is actually going on, but unfortunately nothing was revealed in this book as to what that actually was, other than some kind of war between good and evil.