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Into the Drowning Deep eBook Mira Grant

“It was beautiful, in its own terrible way. So many monsters are.”

Yeah sure, mermaids are all well and good until they come and EAT YOUR DING-DANG FACE OFF.

OK, I completely loved this book. I love all things mermaids (or sirens, as the case may be) and so many mermaid-ish things I read are teenage girls discovering they're a mermaid princess, or teenage mermaids just wanting to be part of your world, and blah-dee-freakin'-blah.

These are not those type of mermaids. These mermaids want to EAT your world.

The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. The Atargatis had found the mermaids because the people on the ship were made of meat, and the mermaids had empty stomachs that they wanted to fill. That was how you found things, in the sea. Be delicious. That was all you ever had to do.

I did not read the prequel novella, Rolling in the Deep, before reading Into the Drowning Deep, and I can assure you that you can read this for full effect without reading the prequel.

There are a lot of characters in what is essentially an ensemble piece, and they all had their own unique little quirks and foibles for there being so many of them. A lot of times upon finishing a book I couldn't tell you the names of the hero and heroine, let alone all the supporting cast. But let me give you the run down.

Dr. Jillian Toth is a total badass and by far and away my favorite character. Actually she reminds me of someone…
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Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all.
-Dr. Jillian Toth

Her (estranged) husband, Theo, is a suit for Imagine who is also badass in his own, quieter and more bespectacled way. He reminds me of Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club in some ways.
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Michi and Jacques are (badass) big game hunters, Michi being a hot Aussie of Japanese descent and Jacques being a somewhat deranged French-Canadian. Olivia is a hot blonde reporter for Imagine that's a cosplay queen that always dresses in Emma Frost closet cosplay, and is followed around by her burly cameraman/bodyguard Ray. Tory is a hot lesbian scientist who lost her sister on the first mermaid mission (the Atargatis) and is accompanied by her too much money friend Luis who is essentially a cryptozoologist that plays with sonar. Hallie is the hot hearing older sister scientist to hot twin redheads Holly (another scientist, biology maybe?) and Heather (who drives something called a Minnow that's like a super fancy diving bell submersible thing) - all three of whom are hot, did I mention that? Daniel the hot tattooed cetologist (I may have misspelled that, but it's some sort of scientist that involves dolphins. I dunno, don't ask me). Daryl and Gregory are two quasi-bumbling engineers who remind me a little bit of some cartoon character duo or other that I can't quite place.

So essentially, you have a whole bunch of hot scientist ladies, and some guys who may or may not be hot. That's about the only thing that bugged me about the entire book, that all these nerds in one place and either somehow we just happen to randomly focus on the ones that are hot, or they're ALL hot science nerds (at least the ladies, anyway). I don't know about you, but my experience science nerds tend to not be so hot. I'm not saying they're NOT hot, but there shouldn't be a 100% hit rate on attractive ladies in a pool of, like, half a dozen women. Oh, but there's lots of diversity because Michi is Japanese/Australian, and Heather and Holly are deaf, and Tory and Olivia are lesbians (Tolivia 4eva, btw), and Jillian is older. …Anyway, I digress.

There is mighty gore, and coming together and a coming apart of peoples, crazy stuff and plot twists about mermaids and their biology and their motives. If you can survive long enough (translation: if I mermaid doesn’t split its face in half to chomp you with the billions of needle teeth jutting out of its gaping maw…) you might just get to stick around for Book #2 (which I assume is coming, since this one is titled as being Rolling in the Deep #1).


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Into the Drowning Deep eBook Mira Grant Reviews

I am so so excited that I was approved for an ARC of Into the Drowning Deep. As you all know, I am a huge fan of Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire and try to read everything she writes. 2017 was a big year for her with 7 published books. This, sadly, is the last this year.

Into the Drowning Deep is a sequel or follow up to the super scary and amazing novella, Rolling in the Deep. Drowning, however will stand on its own; you do not need to read the first book to understand. (Seriously though, Rolling in the Deep is fabulous).

This novel follows Victoria, whose sister was one of those lost on the Atargaris in a previous mission to the Mariana Trench looking for mermaids. There’s a new and larger team of scientists and television personalities going out there and this time they think they’re more prepared. They’re probably not. 🙂

This is straight up horror and it is fabulous in that way that only Mira Grant can do. It’s smart, hilarious, and ultimately horrifying which is what we’re all looking for with a book like this, right? She also does a crap-ton of research in order to make all her terrifying things believable and oh my! are they believable. It makes everything that much more scary.

So definitely go check this out if you want something scary and well written and terrifyingly plausible.
I am a big fan of Mira Grant's books and this was no exception. This one features mermaids. But not your beautiful, lure sailors to see mermaids. These were terrifying monsters of the ocean. We follow Troy and a robust cast of other characters as they set off to prove that mermaids really do exist after a previous venture failed years before with Tory's sister and others being killed while at sea. I presume these are the events described in the prequel which I have not read. You definitely do not need to read the prequel before reading this book.
I liked the whole cast of characters that are presented. There is a lot of different voices and a lot of diversity in the cast of the book. It felt very natural for a boat like this to be comprised of this variety of people. The events take place in the near future. Far enough away to allow Grant to go into the environmental conditions leading to things the way they are, but not so far away that it feels like a different world. One of the things that I liked about this book and her Newsflesh books is that they go into depth about the science of the world. I learned a lot about oceanic study. It makes the word feel more realistic. It can get very technical at times which might turn some readers away but I felt it added more depth to the story.
The mermaids here are terrifying. Before reading this book I thought a cruise might be fun thing to do. Now, I feel like maybe I don't need to go on one of those. The motives behind the mermaids actions once you get to that part are also very realistic. The story moved a long at a good pace. There were a lot of tense moments and I was often on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen.
To conclude, this was an excellent book. It's smart and entertaining. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for something close to horror but not a full on horror story.
“It was beautiful, in its own terrible way. So many monsters are.”

Yeah sure, mermaids are all well and good until they come and EAT YOUR DING-DANG FACE OFF.

OK, I completely loved this book. I love all things mermaids (or sirens, as the case may be) and so many mermaid-ish things I read are teenage girls discovering they're a mermaid princess, or teenage mermaids just wanting to be part of your world, and blah-dee-freakin'-blah.

These are not those type of mermaids. These mermaids want to EAT your world.

The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. The Atargatis had found the mermaids because the people on the ship were made of meat, and the mermaids had empty stomachs that they wanted to fill. That was how you found things, in the sea. Be delicious. That was all you ever had to do.

I did not read the prequel novella, Rolling in the Deep, before reading Into the Drowning Deep, and I can assure you that you can read this for full effect without reading the prequel.

There are a lot of characters in what is essentially an ensemble piece, and they all had their own unique little quirks and foibles for there being so many of them. A lot of times upon finishing a book I couldn't tell you the names of the hero and heroine, let alone all the supporting cast. But let me give you the run down.

Dr. Jillian Toth is a total badass and by far and away my favorite character. Actually she reminds me of someone…
photo ripley.jpg

Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all.
-Dr. Jillian Toth

Her (estranged) husband, Theo, is a suit for Imagine who is also badass in his own, quieter and more bespectacled way. He reminds me of Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club in some ways.
photo Kyoya-Ootori-kyoya-ootori-19827581-640-480.jpg

Michi and Jacques are (badass) big game hunters, Michi being a hot Aussie of Japanese descent and Jacques being a somewhat deranged French-Canadian. Olivia is a hot blonde reporter for Imagine that's a cosplay queen that always dresses in Emma Frost closet cosplay, and is followed around by her burly cameraman/bodyguard Ray. Tory is a hot lesbian scientist who lost her sister on the first mermaid mission (the Atargatis) and is accompanied by her too much money friend Luis who is essentially a cryptozoologist that plays with sonar. Hallie is the hot hearing older sister scientist to hot twin redheads Holly (another scientist, biology maybe?) and Heather (who drives something called a Minnow that's like a super fancy diving bell submersible thing) - all three of whom are hot, did I mention that? Daniel the hot tattooed cetologist (I may have misspelled that, but it's some sort of scientist that involves dolphins. I dunno, don't ask me). Daryl and Gregory are two quasi-bumbling engineers who remind me a little bit of some cartoon character duo or other that I can't quite place.

So essentially, you have a whole bunch of hot scientist ladies, and some guys who may or may not be hot. That's about the only thing that bugged me about the entire book, that all these nerds in one place and either somehow we just happen to randomly focus on the ones that are hot, or they're ALL hot science nerds (at least the ladies, anyway). I don't know about you, but my experience science nerds tend to not be so hot. I'm not saying they're NOT hot, but there shouldn't be a 100% hit rate on attractive ladies in a pool of, like, half a dozen women. Oh, but there's lots of diversity because Michi is Japanese/Australian, and Heather and Holly are deaf, and Tory and Olivia are lesbians (Tolivia 4eva, btw), and Jillian is older. …Anyway, I digress.

There is mighty gore, and coming together and a coming apart of peoples, crazy stuff and plot twists about mermaids and their biology and their motives. If you can survive long enough (translation if I mermaid doesn’t split its face in half to chomp you with the billions of needle teeth jutting out of its gaping maw…) you might just get to stick around for Book #2 (which I assume is coming, since this one is titled as being Rolling in the Deep #1).