Victoria Stewart is on board to find closure. She’s a talented scientist, but more importantly, her sister was aboard the Atargatis. She’s spent seven years devoted to studying the ocean. She believes something sinister happened to the Atargatis crew. She thinks the answers will be found deep below the waves, and she believes mermaids are responsible for the tragedy that took her sister. One positive aspect to the book was having a female-female relationship. So, at least it was diverse in that sense. I also see people praise the fact that Olivia was revealed to be autistic, so I guess that's great for representation too but I don't really know what to think when the representation extends only as far as a "As a little girl with autism..." descriptor about 2/3 of the way through the book, and then nothing else about it.

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While the plot centers on Tory, there are several other POV characters that flesh out the crew and bring their different perspectives and expertise to the puzzle of what exactly the Atargatis found and how the new expedition will survive. Grant’s characters are believably invested in the problems in front of them, which is important given the premise. We, the readers, are invested because they are. 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. dalilllama on Five SF Visions of Society Free From Rules, Regulations, or Effective Government 2 hours ago The sound of the mermaid's hands slapping the wood pursued him as he fled. He turned the corner, heading for the enclosed hallways where th sea was out of sight, acting on some deeply buried instinct that told him he might be safer if he got away from the water. Amphibious or not, the mermaid was a creature of the sea. It wouldn't pursue him too far from its natural habitat. 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.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? Dr. Jillian Toth—a marine biologist and a siren expert—whose burden of guilt and shame would not permit her to accept the fatality of a mission that was born out of her own research and studies, without at least going herself to face the flesh-ripping monsters of the watery deeps. Egomaniac Hunter: Jacques and Michi are some of the most infamous big-game hunters in the world, not least for having shot critically endangered species simply because they wanted to. They're literally aroused by killing things and are treated like Psychos For Hire by the rest of the characters, rightly so, as Jacques admits they've both murdered people who got in the way of their hunts. Victoria, or Tory, is a marine biologist, working summers for the tourist cruises through Monterey Bay, California (been there!) and spending the rest of her time and money researching the sounds of the ocean deep. Her older sister, Allie, was the videographer for an exploratory ship put together by Imagine Entertainment (aka 'Dreamworks'?) to look for 'mermaids,' and was never found. Everyone on the ship was slaughtered or missing, and the bits of found footage showed fanged mermaid-like creatures hunting the humans down and eating them. The world remained skeptical, however. It's seven years later, however, and a representative from Imagine approaches Tory and her research partner, Luis, with an invitation to be part of a second discovery mission.

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Defrosting Ice Queen: When Tori initially meets Olivia she's extremely cold towards her, since she has the same job on the ship that Tori's sister had on the last one. As the story unfolds, the two grow closer and eventually begin a romantic relationship. wait, did this always say #1 in the title? the prospect of getting to read even more mira grant-penned killer mermaid novels makes me giddy. Alien Hair: The sirens have "hair" of bioluminescent tendrils to lure in humans and to provide light for their signed language in the deep sea. It also hosts all kinds of tiny symbiotic organisms, some of which are deadly venomous to humans. There were so many characters that I couldn't be bothered with getting attached to any of them. I just wanted the critters to eat them all. Into the Drowning Deep is all the best of the horror genre - tense atmosphere, creative horror, interesting characters, fantastic writing, and something going on beneath the surface. I had this book marketed to me as bi girls try to survive killer mermaids, and I’d definitely call that accurate.

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Absurdly Sharp Claws: Sirens posses claws sharp enough to dig into metal walls, allowing them to climb sheer surfaces.

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Spotting the Thread: Sirens can perfectly mimic any sound they hear, but they can only repeat it exactly and have no sense of the context of the sounds most of the time. As such, they can be found out when they do things like mimic the sound of a boat motor a mile under the surface or repeat the same whale song regardless of circumstance. 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?

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: Around the boat, the sea is getting lighter, like the sun is rising from below. The camera continues to roll. The cameraman continues to run.