A post-apocalytic world - on water. A hopeless situation. A killer on the run. And the impossible hope.

The due praise first - the world here is super interesting! The last flotilla on water, they might be the last people on Earth after the flood - and their sources are just smaller and smaller. And there is a killer amongst them. And maybe a hope to be saved from the bacterial kind of illness - and maybe there is a way to connect with some more people alive?
Eva, the heroine, is also quite interesting.

But - the book needs a ruthless editor. The writing is quite rough and the plot needs some kicking, too. Then the beauty of this imaginative works could emerge like a butterfly.

Eva is a survivor of the drowning, an apocalyptic event that left no land in the world, and the survivors all have to make a new life out at sea. Eva lives on a flotilla - a community of dozens of boats roped together - and at the start of the novel, volunteers are being sent out to find somewhere better. The problem is no volunteer has ever returned. Eva says goodbye to the man she loves, and then as soon as he's gone, things start happening in the community - people are murdered, and secrets are being kept. Former detective Eva sets out to investigate and discover the truth.

This was an okay book. It kept me gripped from a few chapters in so kudos for that but I knew very quickly that it was going to be an average read for me.

I felt like everything happened way too quickly on the boats - we were barely into the first chapter when there was an attempted murder, the second chapter there was an almost robbery, the third a murder, and so on. As a reader, I had no grip on the world or the characters before everything began to move at top speed and I really didn't like it. I like to have a moment to start caring about characters before they all start getting knifed, meaning the plot is tense and high drama for me as a reader because I care about those involved.

The writing felt very haphazard, almost like sometimes the author was just making everything up as he went along. For a post-apocalyptic thriller though, this book has something for everyone - a good Captain, a bully boy gang, religious zealots, infection killing everyone, a bad-ass female character taking down the bad guys.

This was okay, but I wouldn't be dying to read the next one.