Into the Drowning Deep: Mira Grant

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Reading Lips: How the Wilson twins usually interact with people, except for speakers on a podium or stage. Their older sister Hallie steps in and interprets for their convenience and ease for events such as those. Space Whale Aesop: Be nice to the planet, or climate change will force sirens to start hunting humans again. Into The Drowning Deep is a terror tale that spills vividly rendered characters towards a future filled with uncertainty and doom where they have no home but the unforgiven sea and no people but each other, and along the way, raises many questions that are cognitively taxing to swallow. In brief, it's a fun read; of the eerie, disorientating, and spine-chilling variety. Victoria “Tory” Stewart, a bisexual graduate student studying acoustic marine biology and the grieving sister of a member of The Atargatis crew whose heart had always been fixed to avenging the death of her sister, and who is hoping that this voyage would spell an end to any hope, however remote, of her sister returning home and finally grant her closure.

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Fish People: The sirens have muscular tails similar to eels and simian-like faces, webbed hands, and gills. A necropsy is performed on the body of a siren, further emphasizing their fish-like Bizarre Alien Biology. The book is extremely read-able and the things that kept me from going all fangirly were few. The repetition was the biggest thing. I don't have to be told the same thing over and over. I might not be the smartest cookie around but I usually get it after a bit. Thank you,' she signed to the siren—one of a handful of signs they’d been working on for the last few months.

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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.

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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.Deaf identical twins Heather and Holly Wilson, one of whom is an organic chemist and the other the owner of a deep-water submersible who had channeled all her yearning into an impossible dream: finding the bottom of Challenger Deep. When he learns about Jason’s death, he admits that Jason had meant nothing to him. He merely complained he lost a lab assistant. I think I could have lived with gory scenes and bloodthirsty sirens, but what made this a really intriguing and exceptional story was the fact that those mermaids were extremely intelligent and had no qualms to use their knowledge to their advantage. They knew what they were hunting (humans in case you wondered) and how to get to it and in contrast to the humans they just took what they craved. Namely, meat and plenty of it. If you want to say it in a drastic way you could also say that the Melusine was some sort of all-you-can-eat buffet for them and you wouldn’t be wrong, because to be entirely honest those humans were basically put on a platter with a nice bow. How people tend to view the Wilson twins. This is lampshaded by Heather in that she knows companies will often actively try to find loopholes to avoid hiring her and her sister due to their deafness, viewing them as distractions at best, liabilities at worst.

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Minutes into the Future: The story takes place in 2022. A few medical advances have been made, self-driving cars are on the road, and desalination plants are common on the coast of California as people fight against the tide of climate change. Ray Marino, Olivia's loyal cameraman, a former MMA-fighter with knees surgically repaired by medical innovation. A big guy who helps Olivia from feeling overwhelmed in crowds. None of the characters are “real” enough to resonate with me (though I do like mermaid-ologist Dr. Jillian Toth), so I wasn't affected when they all started getting disemboweled for being stupid horror movie characters doing stupid things. The romance, likewise, seems more necessary based on trope than truly necessary. It's all just mermaid food in comparison. The pacing, however, works really well; it's not a short book, but I never felt like it was long. It's tense and exciting and even the parts that don't end with trailing entrails are quite readable. Further emphasized in the prequel Rolling in the Deep when David attempts to communicate with the sirens via sign language. Unfortunately, the signs he use tell them he wants to be eaten. The mermaids are understandably puzzled by this but decide since these 'strange things' are delicious, who are they to question their good fortune? Sir, there's something in the water." Some of the strain had vanished, replaced by relief. By telling the captain--by telling the person in charge --the young man had rendered this someone else's problem. "Gregory's still there, but he agreed I should come and tell you." That was only half a lie. Gregory knew he was coming to see the captain. He hadn't endorsed it, exactly, but he knew, and that made it true enough to say.Millennia ago, the starship Kalelah buried itself seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. We have no idea of its existence. It has no idea of ours. And once that changes, everything does. For the worse. Suddenly, two human civilizations – one alien and one Earth-bound – are forced to come to grips with a future neither had ever imagined. And a war nobody wants. It’s a colonization story turned on its head and crafted with all the intrigue and layers of a nail-biting thriller. Readers say, “Like Dan Brown wrote a Crichton story.”

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Eldritch Ocean Abyss: The book features killer mermaids which inhabit the darkest and deepest parts of the Marianas Trench. These mermaids kill and feast on anything that enters this territory and are armed with sharp teeth and fangs. They also despise light, hence their affinity for the darkness of the trench. tl;dr - it’s perfect mira grant - smart and funny and scary and dangerous and surprising. watch your butts. i love that we can always count on at least one character to carry on the angry righteous tradition of newsflesh’s georgia mason:

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And while this book is super low on romance, the one major romance plot is basically my new favorite sapphic ship. That meet cute where Olivia is like "hi can i interview you for a-" and Tory cuts in and just says "no"? I C O N I C. If anyone’s participating in December’s #SapphicAThon, definitely add this to your list. She begins with a cool premise - killer mermaids eating faces - and tries to make it as legitimate as possible by including an array of science-y people and explanations. Works for me, I'm now more or less convinced that a mermaid is going to wriggle up through my plumbing and leave gory chunks of my flesh floating in the toilet. She takes the cool premise and uses it as the basis for a typical horror story/Jurassic Park remake. Which is awesome.