Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

144 reviews

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, Grief, Blood, and Gore

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

Minor: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

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

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

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

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

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

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content and Drug use

2busyreading's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, and Gore

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

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

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, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Violence, Gore, and Blood

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

lilacs_book_bower's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The more I reflect on this, the less I like it.  The characters were for the most part barely sketched out and flat.  There was one character that felt real and interesting, but no one else.  I also genuinely didn't care about any of the characters.  Grant tries to give people depth and different issues, like deafness or having autism, so I appreciate that, but again, I didn't care about these people that were selfish and made idiotic choice after idiotic choice.  There is also SO MUCH info dumping.  Characters will be having a conversation and then we pause in the middle of it to have two or three pages of back story and exposition.  It completely brings the narrative and pacing to a halt.  A few things, like the actual layout of the boat and how the shutters were supposed to work was also confusing.  At one point, a character had to go only twenty feet, and they were acting like it was 200 yards.  Lots of things just felt off, or not thought through, and yet the book dragged on and on and on because of the constant exposition.  The ending is also abrupt and disappointing, and leaves things open for a sequel that never came (tbs, likely out of Grant's hands).  This is the second Grant/McGuire book I have read, and despite wanting to love them both so much, I have just been disappointed unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Violence, Death, and Murder

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.25

So much of the science in this book is so wacky and wrong, and the author clearly doesn’t know how academia works at all. The mermaids are absolutely unbelievable and so are the skills and circumstances of many of the main characters. If you’re going the sci fi route where the science is supposed to sound plausible, you need to do a lot more research. Maybe it’s because I have a STEM PhD, but I don’t see how this book is so highly rated.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Biphobia, and Ableism