Totally engrossing near futuristic science fiction, rife with marine biology and environmental issues, exciting, adventurous. heartbreaking, terrifying. heartwarming: in other words, like real life, dialed up to 11. Loved it and was engrossed from Page One. Of course as well as a fan of Science Fiction, marine life and exploration, environmental retrieval, I am also a Lovecraft aficionado, so I read through an additional lens of Cosmic intervention [Cthulhu, anyone?] The "Kraken" (truly enormous Octopus) inspire considerations of Cthulhu indeed, and of inhuman creatures crossing into our dimension or universe, but also considerations of Darwinism, in evolution gone wild. Particularly appealing for me was the author's continued explication, via the primary characters, of the consequences of human pollution and of Nature's rectification, as seen in fish to jellyfish to Giant Octopus.
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