<blockquote><b><i>“I am nothing except this: a girl reborn of the deep ocean silence, meant for nothing but vengeance.”</i></b></blockquote>This felt like a teenage version of Revenge, but I loved every second. The author really explored the tool revenge takes on someone, how lonely and angry is this path and how it changes you. It played on how lonely and desperate you have to be to start on this journey and how it can spiral out of control. I loved how Frances was build though - the doubts she started having, the conflitct about her own identity not only after everything was through but during the years, how she felt knowing that not everything was black and white as she thought, and how divided she was regarding Gray. She was a realistic and relatable character and I liked liked where se ended up. She's such a badass character, though, she always knew what she wanted and planned for it the entire time. She's smart and focused and I like that she doesn't loose much of her moral sense through the entire thing - she doesn't want anyone 'innocent' to get involved or hurt, she just wants the truth out in the open and for the people responsible to pay for the lives they took. I liked Grey's character, although very cliché, but at times I think the romance could have been toned down a bit. I know it's an YA book and all, and that the relationship between Libby/Frances & Grey was an important aspect of the story and the characters development, but it didn't need to be there all the time. I also had some issues with Sheperd's character, especially at the beggining - how he judged Libby/Frances because he felt 'abandoned' by his foster parent (whose actual daughter had just been rescued from a shipwreck and spent 7 days at sea with nothing to eat or drink and went through a very traumatic experience, and who just lost his wife in the process), how he still judged Frances for accepting Cyrus' proposal, a girl who's been recently orphaned, who had absolutely NO ONE left and was scared out of her mind after going through the most horrifying experience in her life, and how he was sore mainly because things didn't immediately go back the way they were after the Persephone and he didn't get with his dream girl. He reminded me a lot of Jack, from Revenge, which was the most annoying character in the show, so maybe that's why I didn't like him much. The ending was satisfatory, even if it was open, and even though the 'why they did it' was not that convoluted or big (it was actually kind of flat), it made perfect sense and the feeling of helplessness and frustration Frances felt conveyed everything I felt as a reader as well. Overall, it was a good book and a page turner for me. Actual rating: 4.5 stars.