Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

95 reviews

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

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

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

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

sav_22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-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

3.5

I think that the writing in this is one of my favorite writing styles. The plot, however, could have been a little stronger. I would have liked to also see the characters develop just a little more; for such a long book, I feel like

you only get attached to Olivia because you get the most out of her character dev. I think the other characters were flat in growth and could have been pushed more within the narrative but weren’t. These characters are trapped together on a floating impending cemetery—use that to build tension!!! Explore rivalries, clashes in the romance, depth in the choices they make. I like the characters but I could have lost just about any of them and not been emotionally impacted except for the twins and Hallie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

zghutcheson01's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

I really enjoyed the descriptions of injury which were enough to impress the danger and make me uneasy but didn't seem gratuitous. If you're a biologist, this book also has a semi-accurate (though it feels real) portrayal of how competitive the academic biology environment is.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Drug use, and Sexual content

miastr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Ableism and Medical content

Minor: Biphobia

thothsdumbson's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a little slow, but I didn't mind it as I enjoyed the cast of characters enough for it to not really be an issue for me. Definitely a Sci-Fi horror worth reading if you're alright with a bit of gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism and Misogyny

maddireads13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

ches2496's review

dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

A satisfying sy-fi thriller. I loved how the author did a deep-dive (pardon the pun) into mermaid biology. The author also did a good job of making even the unlikable characters sympathetic. Definitely going to look for more by this author.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Biphobia, Confinement, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts