I wasn't sure what to expect from this, but I ended up enjoying this more than I thought I would. The characters are interesting, though things move a little quickly (in more ways than one) ;-) , but I didn't find it completely beyond belief. I loved the submersible they end up with.

I do have to say that what really, really bothered me was the lack of a good editor. There were many misspellings, misused pronouns, and wrong words, but the worst were the places that simply made no sense, as if the middle of the paragraph had been removed and then slammed together. Or sentences that made no sense. In bad novels I just find it sort of painfully funny, but in ones I think are good with real potential it upsets me.

I went through a stage of idiotic hubris where I figured I edited through my manuscripts enough times I didn't need to pay anyone to look at it. When I became an editor for a while the truth hit home hard about that, especially when I found mistakes nearly identical to the kind I make. I didn't find them so quickly in my own work, but someone else's? Nasty bit of reality. I don't know what the situation is here, but all I can advise is to persevere and I hope you'll find it as worthwhile as I did. ( )