Into the Drowning Deep: Mira Grant

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I wasn't sure exactly where the story would head, but at about 20% it occurred to me that it was Jurassic Park, ocean version. It even included two big game hunters everyone loved to hate: "They had traveled the world, taking their prey from every environment, every ecosystem. They had bribed, bartered, and trespassed to line up the perfect shot, creating their own Noah’s Ark of ghosts." As soon as I met them, I felt sure they were the characters we were going to love being eaten, as the ghosts from all their big game hunts took revenge. The thrashing mass of sirens writhed atop his body, their hands rending him into pieces. In the end, he was barely a mouthful for each of them.

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Another point is it took such a long time for them – these highly trained scientists- to establish the mermaids were intelligent and dangerous. When they decided they were smart, I basically rolled my eyes. I think it was clear when the mermaids expertly killed someone or did some impressive feat that they may need to be taken a little bit seriously.) I thought it was messy from the start. Lots of jumping around in time and place. But I thought, okay, I can deal with that.

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when i heard she was planning to return to these creatures with a full-length novel, i was overjoyed. and it totally delivers - it's everything that was fresh and original about the novella, only on a much grander scale. <——- that is not a fish pun. unless you like that sort of thing. it’s just … more across the board. this book is about three times the size of the novella, the boat in this book is much larger than the novella’s atargatis (b/c jaws meme is troof), and it is carrying twice as many passengers as the mere 200 lost in that first mermaid-finding mission. and the boat itself, well, as the beleaguered captain phrases it:

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Consistent Clothing Style: Olivia the reporter always dresses entirely in white in a deliberate nod to Emma Frost, whom she also Cosplays outside of work. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. By signing up you agree to our terms of use A Door Into Ocean by Joan SlonczewskiThe one that says you’re going to burn down the world if that’s what it takes to get what you want.” And especially considering what Seanan McGuire has said about her plans for book two, I AM VERY VERY DOWN FOR THE SEQUEL. Im. Med. I. At. Ely. The only final thing to mention is... Olivia. Olivia is autistic and so incredibly well written, and I really think reading her character was a lot for me, and maybe, after two rereads, I'm thinking a lot about how much I connected to her, and how that felt in terms of my personal identity. So. Yeah. This book meant a lot to me. one of the things i praised over in my review for Rolling in the Deep was the number of different scientific disciplines featured in that story, and how grant spent time expounding the slant of each scientist's contribution to the enterprise in tasty little science nuggets. here, there’s even more of that; a noah’s ark of any and all possibly relevant hard and social scientists, plus big game hunters and media types. add to this mira grant’s “representation bingo" approach to featuring diverse characters, and you have a broad variety of perspectives and storylines and experiential variation across the personal and professional spectrum mermaid food. Also, while she writes great kill scenes, I do need to mention I thought the prose otherwise was a bit sparse and didn't really do the setting justice.)

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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. It was beautiful, in its own terrible way. So many monsters are. It has been a YEAR and I still have not stopped thinking about how great this book was and how much I love it and how much I want to reread it every day of my life, and someday soon I'm going to make all of you read it with me and then we'll REALLY be nailing it Jason Rothman. Plankton expert. Tory's ex-boyfriend. Identified by Olivia as a "science hipster" who ridiculed mermaids until they were proven to exist and saw a career opportunity. It Can Think: While sirens are vicious predators, they are also sapient beings with multiple languages and the capacity for strategic planning. Dr. Lyons, the scientist in charge of overseeing Jason, hands down. He essentially forces all his students to do the lab work, write all of his papers, and to run all the errands. Granted, this is generally what lab assistants are expected to do—but Dr. Lyons is especially an asshole about it and takes things to a whole new level. To hammer home how big an asshole he is, he isn’t above stealing the credit of any worthwhile research his students conduct and publishing it as his own.Into the Drowning Deep is the story of what happens when science belongs to the highest bidder, when sensationalism outweighs safety, when the news cycle must be fed no matter what the cost. It is the story of what it means to grieve so deeply that your bones are coral made, that your heart refuses to be still until the sins of the past can be put safely to rest, that the world weighs too much, crushing you. And yeah, it's a story about mermaids. Horrifying, marine biologist-approved mermaids, lurking in the deepest parts of the ocean, ready to devour you.” These are mermaids - or better, sirens - that I can really believe ... and definitely would not want to be having a close encounter with ... on an isolated ship ... hundreds of miles from help civilization. At another part in the book, this same "scientist" comes to a realization that the mermaids/sirens must be sentient because they possess intelligence and language capabilities. In the real world, what scientist would say this? Sentience has nothing to do with the capacity for language or intellect. If the author is going to spend most of the book on scientific babble, at least make it believable? This callousness could further lend to the tragedy of Jason’s death. He had taken the little creatures living in the siren’s “hair” and performed the makeshift necropsy in his cabin rather than in a lab setting. Indirectly, one could even argue Dr. Lyons was the reason Jason had died so pointlessly. Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: The sirens resided primarily in the depths of the Mariana Trench, leading to them having been largely undiscovered for so long. It’s also theorized throughout in-universe that the sirens may have lived in shallower waters in the past, or had once been a migratory species at one point. This is considered pure conjecture and even alluded to as such.

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Live today is a review by @ Elysium1313 who's chatting about the latest Grady Hendrix novel (which is freakin' INCRE… https://t.co/boAnutHsLw Mar 29, 2023, 3:20 PM A pet peeve of mine is when an author starts multiple names with the same letter. Did we really need a Holly, Hallie and Heather? Come on. It was hard for me to remember who was who, but at a certain point I honestly just stopped caring. It might feel a tad slow at times but there's so much suspense, so much edge that you'll feel nervous, you'll be anticipating something to go wrong and it all adds up to the excitement levels. I didn't care much for romance or all the super science talk at times but it's all good. The characters are decent. This is a plot driven story so don't expect a lot of character development. The ending was worth it, my jaw was on the floor and I can't believe it ended that way. Like I want moreeeee 😩😩 Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.I knew Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant had it in her, somewhere. She takes the promise she had shown in Feed, her creature inventiveness from Discount Armageddon and weaves them together with the horror atmosphere from Every Heart a Doorway to create a terrifically scary tale. The book ends abruptly. I think it could have used an additional chapter or perhaps an epilogue. The overall journey compensated for this. The Conclusion