Into the Drowning Deep: Mira Grant

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Our Mermaids Are Different: The sirens in a nutshell. They aren’t beautiful women with pretty, sparkly colourful fish tails. The sirens’ tails are more eel-like, their faces are almost simian in appearance with large round eyes and they have both gills and rudimentary lungs for surface excursions. Their “hair” has bioluminescent properties and is used as a lure to attract potential prey. Their hands have three fingers and an opposable thumb and have several extra joints and are webbed. Their flesh is poisonous to consume, and even their blood introduced to the human body has lethal effects. They can extend their jagged-tooth filled jaws to engulf and literally eat a person’s face off their skull. They can also communicate through a kind of sign language of their own making, are able to traverse with surprising speed while out of water, and can scale the sheer surface and angle of the ship's hull. Oh—all the mermaids are male. The only female is a leviathan-sized eldritch abomination. In essence, they are similar biologically to that of anglerfish: the female is hundreds of times larger than the humanish-sized males. Due to their impressive and extensive mimicry abilities, Dr. Toth decidedly reclassifies their nomenclature from mermaid to siren.

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This wasn’t as good as I hoped, but I still liked it well enough. I’m just going to review with quotes When one says mermaids, you think of cutesy stuff but when you make them killer mermaids now that's something that will blow your minds. It's revealed that the "mermaid" that is being necropsied is male, which foreshadows all the sirens encountered so far have been male.So I'm rating this book as middle of the road. I liked it and will probably read another one of this authors books but I'm gonna let other people cut in line before me. (Mermaids might be there to eat our faces anyways.) It's All My Fault: How Dr. Toth feels about both expeditions of the Atargatis and the Melusine. She reasons that if she hadn’t been advocating about the existence of sirens, she wouldn’t have caught the attention of Imagine, and everyone who had died on both voyages could have been avoided. Bland-Name Product: In-universe visual example: Olivia dresses almost exactly like Emma Frost of X-Men fame, close enough that fans of her show can see the resemblance but not so close that Marvel/ Disney can sue the studio. The creature hisses, showing bloody teeth. Then, in a perfectly human, perfectly chilling voice, it says, "Come on, Kevin, don’t you have the shot yet?"

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Obviously we know going in that this book is about a nother group of scientists and specialists heading on an expedition to prove/disprove the theory of mermaids being the real deal. Unfortunately (again), these folks are taken by surprise by the monsters that they find. I don't want to give anything away, but here we have the same intricate details from Grant. Her writing is the very definition of "science fiction", as her fiction has so many scientific "facts" to enhance the credibility of the story I almost forget this is fiction and not a documentary on the Discovery Channel. There were a few really nice twists and turns that caught me off guard, and one major turning point of the story blew my mind so wonderfully that I'm still thinking about it as I type this. While we receive enough closure in the end, I felt the finale was left open enough for another entry if she so chooses to write it, which pleases me greatly. Muahahaha Highly recommended for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and just plain weird and dark takes on classic stories. I admit, I’m always confused as to why there isn’t more “adult” books concerning mermaids. From the eerie sirens who sing sailors to death, to horrific beasts lurking beneath the ocean, the potential for scares and horror is limitless. I was interested in Grant’s book, which went more of the latter route, creating mermaids with grotesque bodies who will gladly eat humans, and was pleasantly rooted in science. I did not expect, however, uninteresting characters to take up the bulk of this novel and for the mermaids to be, well…not very scary? Sapient Cetaceans: Imagine sent along a team of dolphins, one of whom gets his own viewpoint chapter, and who the crew considers to be people. It's mentioned that things are legally contentious re: cetaceans, because scientists consider them people but governments haven't caught up. Theo says Imagine's contract with the dolphins covers their ass both ways: either the dolphins are animals and they don't need a contract, or the dolphins are people and they agreed to this.

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I really wanted to give this 5 stars but that ending. Am I the only one who felt confused about it?

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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: The trouble with discovery is that it goes two ways. For you to find something, that thing must also find you.” Sea Monster: The sirens, hands down. It’s alluded to in-universe that they had been behind disappearances in the past in the Mariana area for centuries.AAHHH! How can I write a review to do this book justice? I don't think I can convey just how glorious of a storyteller Mira Grant (AKA Seanan McGuire) is. The way I feel about her writing is similar to how diehard Stephen King fans feel about his work; she could publish her grocery list and I would pay top dollar for it. Grant/McGuire is by far one of the most underrated authors of our time and I want to shout from the rooftops just how amazing she is. This is an energetic book that starts at high velocity and never lets up. There is so much emotion rushing under the skin of every moment. I was antsy and uncertain throughout, a pendulum swinging between anticipation and dread, as if I were feeling the same weight of hungry eyes on me and the sense of having to be wary as the characters. The parenthetical asides were a smart addition, making the reader pay attention to every single detail, mining for clues everywhere. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. Morality Chain: The only reason Jacques Abney behaves is because he knows Michi would be angry if he didn't. (The narration says he would have been a Serial Killer had he not gotten into big game.) Of course she's not much of a Morality Chain, she just prefers to kill her victims quietly. 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 What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it's universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first. Even inland, if there's a big enough lake, I guarantee you there's a local community with a story about women in the water with beautiful voices who lure men to their deaths. The descriptions of the sirens are also terrifying and Grant is so great at creating a clear image in your mind. “Its face was something like a viperfish’s and something like a mummified ape’s and something like the shadows that sometimes chased her through her dreams.” They’re also completely ruthless and continually show new and more evil ways of being able to kill a person. It’s such an amazing monster story!

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Live today is a review by @ Elysium1313 who's chatting about We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe. "Delec… https://t.co/qnwzTLsMCg Mar 22, 2023, 10:39 AM 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.” It Can Think: While sirens are vicious predators, they are also sapient beings with multiple languages and the capacity for strategic planning. Where there's water, we find mermaids. Maybe it's time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is.” I don't need to read a dozen times that a character's "flesh" "tightened" around "their eyes." What does that even mean, and why use it so many times? "The flesh tightened around her eyes." "The flesh around his eyes was tight." Who edited this and why didn't they ask the author to come up with something else?