A gritty future awaits us when the oil age ends, the poles melt and the coastal cities of today are submerged. The main character, Nailer, is on the have-nots side of the vast chasm between the "swanks" and the "rust rats." He spends his days working with a crew of other kids to strip any valuable metal from the carcass of washed up oil rigs; he spends his nights hiding from his abusive, crystal-sliding dad, until the day after a city-killer storm hits and he discovers a swank sailing clipper crashed nearby. Should he scavenge the wealth from the ship and buy his way out of the oil rig's guts? or should he save the half-drowned swank girl and escape to another life? 
 I liked this, but it left a lot of questions for me. Not so much holes in the story, that was fine, but sideline explanations about the new future. There was lots of talk about the cult and the harvesters, and I wanted to learn more about that aspect. Perhaps in the next book The Drowned Cities we'll get some more about that and the world of the "swanks."