Friends,

I have the most exciting news. What Feeds Below has earned a KIRKUS STARRED review!

Congrats to Tatiana! This book is so incredible and I'm so glad others are able to experience

what I did the first time I read it! Scroll down to read full review.

Why is this important?

Only 10% of books reviewed by Kirkus earn a STAR. This signifies to booksellers and librarians that the book is of exceptional merit. This could mean bigger orders from bookstores!

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Kirkus Star Full Review

Best friends Petra and Jade live in an orphanage on the outskirts of a rundown city that’s grown up around the Void, a mysterious chasm that’s miles deep and wide.

Desperate to escape their grinding poverty, the 17-year-old girls work together as divers, guiding wealthy, thrill-seeking tourists on excursions into the complete darkness of the Void, with its carnivorous plants and vicious, cunning predators. The divers risk losing limbs—and their lives—and few ever reach the Void’s Sixth Layer, where lies the ancient city of Obscuris, which sank into the earth long ago, taking a mysterious power source and advanced technologies with it. A successful dive to Obscuris would secure the girls’ financial futures, but dark-haired, timid Petra is too afraid to try, despite Jade’s pushing. Only when green-eyed Jade, who’s pale-skinned with auburn hair, goes missing during a botched dive does Petra screw up her courage. Together with fellow diver Flint, who has dark-brown skin and a prosthetic leg and to whom she was once close, Petra heads back into the Void for what she promises herself will be her very last dive—all the way to the Sixth Layer. But what she finds in the deep is peril, pain, and something genuinely shocking. This gory novel moves at a fast pace, and its strengths include its lush and innovative worldbuilding, gruesome body horror, and unflinching commitment to the bleakness of its narrative.

A nail-biting tale set in a beautifully rendered world of darkness and danger. (Horror. 14-18)

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