![]() ![]() This atmospheric page-turner is occasionally disrupted by forced lyricism that will pull the reader from the narrative. ![]() And in mysterious flashes forward to one year after the initial flooding, Thea, now separated from Doris, discovers a frightened child aboard an abandoned boat. With the flood comes an invasion of sea monsters (termed “posies” after Poseidon) that overrun Earth. Before the flooding, their relationship had become outright antagonistic, due in part to Thea’s heroin addiction, but the catastrophe draws them back together. Meuret braids multiple timelines and juxtaposes the sisters’ childhood memories with the initial horror of the rising waters and their subsequent fight for survival. ![]() Meuret’s bewitching debut follows the evolving relationship between sisters Doris and Thea before and after an apocalyptic flood sweeps Earth in 2025. ![]()
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