Into the Drowning Deep was so much fun. Eighty percent of my reading is romance, but I love to mix it up with a horror story from time to time. Of course, this does have a romantic subplot, but it’s all edge of your seat fright as character after character is slaughtered by the sirens emerging from the deep sea. I’m afraid of the open ocean so this story was particularly terrifying. I loved it. Excerpt from Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 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. 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. Send in the Search Team: The USS Danvers, although they had happened upon the Atargatis, and weren't called in by a distress signal. Nothing But Readi...: Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant (April 2019 Adult/Non Fiction Book of the Month ) starts April 2, 2019

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If we're successful, there will be a documentary. My employers are very good at managing the details." 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. Which leads me, not incidentally, to one of the things that Grant/McGuire is finally getting right for such a prolific author who likes to see the unseen and counter expectations: we finally have a female cast that feels developed and well-rounded. And while a romance is brought into it, it's a queer one, quite possibly the first in all her thirty-five-ish books. Jacques and Michi Abney. Big game hunters. Husband-wife. He is French-Canadian, she is Japanese-Australian. Want the first verified kill of a mermaid. Shunned by the scientists, initially. 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?And like, these mermaids, these terrifying mermaids, they're so much just the tip of the murder iceberg, and this is so amazing, and I am so excited. Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant’s ( a.k.a. Seanan McGuire) science horror novella about a documentary crew who venture into the Mariana Trench in search of a mermaid hoax, only to discover that mermaids are real and very deadly, is becoming a movie! Variety reports that Branded Pictures Entertainment will produce the adaptation, with Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert at the helm. Olivia, who was staring down the barrel of a lifetime of nightmares, assuming her lifetime extended past this place, this ship, this damned and doomed voyage, said nothing." A thin-fingered hand slaps across the lens, and the video stops. The screaming takes longer to end, but in time, it does.

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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. Somehow equal parts popcorn fiction and intelligent commentary on conservation, it's bloody brilliant! 😂 dalilllama on Five SF Visions of Society Free From Rules, Regulations, or Effective Government 2 hours ago

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It’s beautiful,” breathed Daniel, and while there were those who would have objected to the reverence in his voice, none of them corrected his statement. It was beautiful, in its own terrible way. So many monsters are. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. 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. Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) had an fantastic vision for the monstrous sea creatures in her novel. The mermaids were uniquely imagined and and vividly described. Dangerous and other-worldly, these were certainly not the Disney variety of mermaids!

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Creepy Long Fingers: The mermaids have two extra joints on their fingers, plus claws. They look spindly but are strong enough to gouge metal. 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. Driven to Suicide: Subverted with David from the novella, the first mate of the Atargatis. He was attempting to communicate with the sirens, but they mistook his attempts as him offering to be eaten by them. He dies instantly from drowning before they begin to tear him apart.Recycled In Space: At its core, the story is Aliens but on the ocean. It is a sequel to a story where a shipload of people were lost, where a more heavy armed ship is sent to the area by a powerful corporation that is interested in capturing one of the dangerous creatures that caused the loss of the first ship. The sirens are similar to xenomorphs in a number of ways such as having vaguely humanoid but monstrous and slimy forms, predatory instincts, the capacity for strategic thought, deadly blood and the ability to climb sheer walls. Ultimately, the climax comes when the characters encounter the much larger female of the species. Famous for Being First: The submersible operator, Heather Wilson, joins the research expedition so she can be the first human to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, in part so a Deaf woman will hold that record. Ultimately, she ignores a danger alert in her eagerness and is killed in the attempt. When Olivia was growing up, her mother viewed her this way, treating her like a child because of her autism and not letting her date anyone. She thought anyone romantically interested in Olivia would be akin to a pedophile. Mermaids like you’ve never seen them before, vicious and bloodthirsty and downright chthonic. Into the Drowning Deep is a sequel to Mira Grant’s standalone novella Rolling in the Deep. In the novella, a ship named the Atargatis, populated with scientists and a reality TV “documentary” crew,goes looking for mermaids and gets more than they bargained for in a messy, bloody, horrifying way. Seven years later in Into the Drowning Deep, the sister of one of the slain passengers of the Atargatis embarks on a new journey funded by the same media company, determined to get revenge and show that the horrifying existence of mermaids isn’t actually a hoax. As you might imagine, the mermaids aren’t a hoax, they’ve been waiting for the humans to return, and things are going to get bloody. It’s a mix of the cut throat horrors of academia, the banal evil of reality TV entertainment, and some excellent B movie monster fun. The Deep by clipping

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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! 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. Because You Were Nice to Me: One siren signals its fellows through sign language not to hurt Hallie because she communicated with him by the same means and established a friendly rapport.

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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. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. 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. Jillian Toth, our resident badass half-Hawaiian scientist, post production problem child, and overall icon Hired to accompany the Melusine into uncharted waters are a bunch of scientists who, unperturbed by the fact that the vanishing of The Atargatis does rather minimize their chances of survival, are pretty okay with trading temporary mortal life for the greatest benefit of science: