Deception Cove by Owen Laukkanen

 

I grabbed this at the library out of something like hope that it'd be better than the cover copy implied. It really wasn't. It wasn't bad, exactly, just ... mostly bland and predictable and intermittently implausible. The pacing isn't horrible, and some of the action scenes are OK, and there is the occasional neat turn of phrase, but this is a book without a lot of strong attractions for me, and the missteps it makes (the obvious and implausible romantic relationship, mostly) lead me not to look for more by the author.