dnf’d at 24%. i really wanted to like this. there was so much i should have liked. the slow mental decline of a woman mourning her wife who isn’t really dead ala “The Seep” Chana Porter. a woman gone missing who returns and isn’t Quite The Same anymore. the underwater eldritch horror of it all. but the book is SO disjointed with 2 POVs who both have nonlinear narration and neither narrator is really reliable. both miri and leah relive moments from their marital bliss in disconnected tableaus, neither serving to help us love their character or understand them deeper.

maybe the book plot is still at the bottom of the ocean with half of leah’s soul.