Plot Synopsis

When Liv lands an all-expenses-paid opportunity to study aboard the luxury cruise ship The Eos for a semester, she can’t believe her luck. Especially since it will offer her the chance to spend time with Will, her ex–best friend, who’s barely spoken to her since the night their relationship changed forever.  

But as soon as she steps on board, Liv realizes just how out of her depth she is. With Will, with the rest of the Seamester students—including the brittle and beautiful Constantine, who may be hiding his own ties to the Eos—and most of all, with the Sirens, three glamorous and mysterious influencers who seem to have the run of the ship.

Liv quickly discovers that the only reason she was invited to join the trip is because another girl disappeared shortly after enrolling—and no one seems to know what happened to her. When further disappearances rock the ship and strange creatures begin haunting Liv’s dreams, she wonders: Is the Eos hiding a dark secret within its shadowy decks?

Review

Thanks to Netgalley and Random House/Delacorte Press for the e-ARC.

I liked this book, but didn’t love it. I did love that Olivia, Liv, was our very own Cassandra. Though instead of prophecies it was missing people. This book is a good mystery that hinges on the fact that no one believes the main character. Oh and the main love interest, Constantine or Con is an idiot and a lush. By the end of the book I kept wishing that Liv would run away and be the heroine in her own story since she was clearly surrounded by idiots and sycophants.

From the very beginning you can tell some romantic liaison had happened between Liv and her best friend Will. This has made things awkward and now they have to pretend like everything is fine as they board a 6 week semester at sea program. Very quickly things start going awry, the first night Will gets hammered and yells at Liv, then he just goes missing.

I liked bits and pieces of this story, especially the Greek mythology of it all, but I felt the story would have been better if Will had been a best friend only. There wasn’t really a need for some mislead romantic hookup in their recent history. The story could have progressed the same without it. I don’t want to spoil anything else, but this was just a meh read for me.

3 out of 5 stars

SPOILERS BELOW

I’m sorry but is Con really that oblivious and possibly a bit dim? He never noticed anything weird about his dad or the business he runs? Maybe that’s a privilege of the super rich, but I’d want to believe that I would notice if my dad seemed to maybe be part sea creature. Also Con is a middle child? How is that never mentioned till the end?

I have questions people!