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A review by jenbsbooks
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
4.25
I've enjoyed other books from this author (Feed, Parasitology series) so figured I'd give this one a go. I have a mermaids/siren shelf, having read several books on that subject ... but never bloodthirsty menaces like featured here! Another review said this was "Oceanic Jurassic Park" and I have to agree.
This also features ASL, which I didn't know going into the book, but was of interest to me. An Author'sNote about ASL needing to be written SEE for the book, even though that's not correct. Seeing deaf characters getting a large role.
The book has several sections: Surface, Zone One:Pelagic, Zone Two:Photic, Zone Three:Aphotic, Zone Four: Bathypelagic, Zone Five: Abyssopelagic, Zone Six: Demersal & an epilogue. The chapters (38 of them) start with Zone 1.
The SURFACE section had several parts; a couple quotes, a post from an online forum, a "chapter" dated June 2015 introducing Anne and Tory, Anne's disappearance/death. "Footage" (transcribed) from July 2015. Another "chapter" set September 2018 of another group on the water ... all setting up that "there's something in the water" ... cue "Jaws" type music, but it's not a shark. It's man-eating mermaids.
3rd person/Past tense for the "story" sections (even from non-human perspectives at times) ... there are also several "transcripts" from lectures, articles, quotes (from characters in authority) sprinkled in (at the start of the different sections). LOTS of characters. I struggled a bit to keep track of who everyone was, backgrounds, connections.
The chapters gave location/date with most of the action happening in August/September 2022. This was a slightly alternate timeline though ... medical science seemed more evolved that ours today, slight feature of autonomous cars, relationship/communication with working dolphins.
Fitbit was mentioned ;)
"I'm sure the sirens have encountered drunk humans before. They probably think we're even more delicious when we self-marinate."
"Was it suicide when death was inevitable?"
"Sometimes silence was the only correct thing to say."
"Sometimes isolation was the only armor she had."
Audio pronounced "inuring" as "injuring" ...
I had to look up "inimical" ...
Content: proFanity x27, some sex (nothing too explicit, a lesbian romance), quite a bit of violence and gore and death.
This also features ASL, which I didn't know going into the book, but was of interest to me. An Author'sNote about ASL needing to be written SEE for the book, even though that's not correct. Seeing deaf characters getting a large role.
The book has several sections: Surface, Zone One:Pelagic, Zone Two:Photic, Zone Three:Aphotic, Zone Four: Bathypelagic, Zone Five: Abyssopelagic, Zone Six: Demersal & an epilogue. The chapters (38 of them) start with Zone 1.
The SURFACE section had several parts; a couple quotes, a post from an online forum, a "chapter" dated June 2015 introducing Anne and Tory, Anne's disappearance/death. "Footage" (transcribed) from July 2015. Another "chapter" set September 2018 of another group on the water ... all setting up that "there's something in the water" ... cue "Jaws" type music, but it's not a shark. It's man-eating mermaids.
3rd person/Past tense for the "story" sections (even from non-human perspectives at times) ... there are also several "transcripts" from lectures, articles, quotes (from characters in authority) sprinkled in (at the start of the different sections). LOTS of characters. I struggled a bit to keep track of who everyone was, backgrounds, connections.
The chapters gave location/date with most of the action happening in August/September 2022. This was a slightly alternate timeline though ... medical science seemed more evolved that ours today, slight feature of autonomous cars, relationship/communication with working dolphins.
Fitbit was mentioned ;)
"I'm sure the sirens have encountered drunk humans before. They probably think we're even more delicious when we self-marinate."
"Was it suicide when death was inevitable?"
"Sometimes silence was the only correct thing to say."
"Sometimes isolation was the only armor she had."
Audio pronounced "inuring" as "injuring" ...
I had to look up "inimical" ...
Content: proFanity x27, some sex (nothing too explicit, a lesbian romance), quite a bit of violence and gore and death.