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Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

164 reviews

thisonecassie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Im just gonna start this with saying, I love the novels prequel, and I highly recommend it as your appetizer before reading Into the Drowning Deep, HOWEVER it does have a note on mermaids that is a bit of a spoiler to the novel. This slight (and I do mean slight) spoiler did NOT affect my enjoyment of the book, BUT if you want to be as 'in the dark' as to what happend to the Atargatis (the boat from the novella, who the Museuline [the boat in this novel] is attempting to research what happened to) as the characters in the novel, not reading the novella would mimic their lack of deep knowledge about the events of the novella, and about mermaids.  

This is... I can't think of words that fully encompass how amazing this book is, so im gonna break it down. 

Characters: each character is unique, no one feels same-y, nor do any of them feel flat, yes some of them are quite 'cartoony' or 'exaggerated' but it is a novel about killer mermaids for crying out loud, I think its allowed some loud personalities. 

Relationships: the character dynamics and the relationships between all of the characters are explored with some amount of depth for nearly all of the characters who interact with one another (aided in part by the use of many points of view, ranging from a whole host of characters as well as a few instances of mermaid POV!!!) You root for all of the characters, even the ones that you don't like, and that in my opinion is what makes a good book great. 

Writing style: I love how this book (as well as the novella prequel) is written, the entire book feels like a conversation between me the reader, and the book. (complete with parenthetical side statements about the wider picture and cosmic comedy of the situation at hand)

The horror: I get most of my guts and gore content from whatever executives thought they could get away with putting on tv (aka, criminal minds, bones, supernatural, and my fave the x files <3), so jumping into this amazing book with BLOOD!!! and GUTS!!!! I love it, I LOVE it!!!! i love the tense suspense, i love the pacing of the more intense scenes, LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

overall: seriously, read this book, head the content warnings, but read it... its amazing. I LOVE it!!. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism

emready's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

nightstitch96's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

A super gripping novel, the premise is so fascinating and I loved all the different characters and their jobs/perspectives in academia. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sonygaystation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Medical content, and Death of parent

melliedm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit. Look, if you like Alien and think the ocean is messed up, this is going to slap for you. Just read it already.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Drug use and Sexual content

2busyreading's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Ableism and Biphobia

snazzy10101's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

brilliant book
loved it all

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Confinement, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

suzanneloving's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

A long read, very sharknado vibes, quite fascinating and deeply weird. I did like the neurodivergency and differently abled expressions and abilities quite a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

smellymiche's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, Violence, and Murder