The story follows Ty, who has lived his whole life on his family's homestead and has dreams of claiming his own stake when he turns eighteen. But when outlaws' attacks on government supply ships and settlements...

... threaten to destroy the underwater territory, Ty finds himself in a fight to stop the outlaws and save the only home he has ever known.

Joined by a girl from the Topside who has come subsea to look for her prospector brother, Ty ventures into the frontier's rough underworld and begins to discover some dark secrets to Dark Life.

As Ty gets closer to the truth, he discovers that the outlaws may not be the bloodthirsty criminals the government has portrayed them as. And that the government abandoning the territory might be the best thing for everyone, especially for someone like Ty, someone with a Dark Gift.

Thoughts:

Another new dystopian for me to read! woot! I'm glad I read the summary for this because I probably would have ignored it otherwise. Who puts a jellyfish on the cover of a book? I mean I can see that if the book has jellyfish recipes or something but Dark Life is clearly not a cookbook. I get the whole underwater them but they should have put a little underwater city there or something instead of that fish.