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This one barely squeaks by with a “Borrow” instead of a “Bypass” and that’s solely because the author was able to weave in enough super interesting historical facts about shipwrecks (especially relating to the Titanic) that I went down a research rabbit hole for like 2 hours after finishing.

(& then lightly attacked my husband with all the knowledge that I had recently acquired)

Got this one as a First Reads from KU in April or May and it really had a lot of promise (and is also super highly rated, so maybe I’m just being too picky?), but by the end I really had to actively try not to skim.

Both of the timelines had the beginnings of something really great, and could even have worked with the novel just being about one timeline as opposed to both - but it felt like trying to do both just weakened both. (I said both a lot in there)

But back to the research aspect - did anybody else know about the SS Californian and it’s connection to the sinking of the Titanic or am I somehow the last 90s kid obsessed with shipwrecks to have come across this information??

AND/OR the SS Mount Temple?!?! Seriously we’ve got teachers trying to explain the Pythagorean Theorem to me when they COULD have been teaching me about an early 19th century Canadian cargo ship that sank over the Atlantic crossing during war service with DINOSAUR FOSSILS aboard?!?!?!

anywho… worth a shot if you’re into shipwrecks and lighthouses and treasure hunting.