Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

45 reviews

markedwithanm's review

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

ches2496's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Confinement, and Biphobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Drug use

luciamarier's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexism

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

The end is wrapped up in an extremely unsatisfactory way, the writing became extremely repetitive with an overuse of rambling (parenthetical tangents that went no where), and I didn't feel that any of the characters actions had real impact. Suspension of disbelief only takes me so far when

suddenly the mermaids that ate everyone else without discrimination spare you, multiple times, because you're the main character.

Everything just wraps up a little too conviently for there to be real tension. How many times do you have to come to the revelation that the killer mermaids want to kill you?? I thought these people were adult scientists but they read incredibly juvenile. I also didn't need the point of view of every single character--

the dolphins? Are you serious? And the mermaid (sorry, Siren) POV completely took me out of it

. Would recommend for those looking for a YA novel with horror elements and a diverse cast, otherwise, skip it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Biphobia, Drug use, Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, and Violence

empressnessa's review

adventurous dark tense 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

4.5

There were definitely some plot holes such as

Dr. Toth knowing no sign language upon boarding the ship, then suddenly knowing advanced scientific vocabulary in ASL near the end of the book, after possibly a WEEK

but it was still a great read. I enjoyed all the many points of view, including the POVs of the sirens. But I was and still am deeply upset by the

dolphins deaths

. It was so senseless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

wyabook234's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content, Cursing, and Homophobia

princessdana36's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was such a good book however it is gory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Violence, Confinement, and Animal cruelty

nefariousbee's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

the constructed atmosphere in this book is absolutely phenomenal. I did not think I'd love all the science talk half as much as I ended up to, and the ease with which the author gets in the heads of all kinds of different people is so effortless and real... I just loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gaslighting

aimzthereader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Holy moly this book is sooo good! Who knew I needed a book about killer mermaids? Also I am never going in the ocean again. I will say I was not expecting as much science as this book offered but I found it very interesting. It took a bit to get used to the pacing of this book because it moves at a slower pace especially initially then you would think a scifi horror would. There were also scenes where it would be moving very quicklly and then slow down so the pacing took a bit to get used to but it mae a lot of sense. This book is literal perfection , it even made me care about the characters which I tend not to when I know there is a possibility that they can die. Overall this book was very well done, very enterttaining and is one that will stick with me for a long time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Cursing, Confinement, Gore, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Medical trauma, Grief, Death, and Blood

Moderate: War, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Vomit, Sexism, Mental illness, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Biphobia, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

punkrockingnerd's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

As a person who loves dolphins? Horrified. As a person who has difficultly with gore? Horrified. As a fan of mermaid and/or siren cryptids? I'm a little excited! But overall, horrified

Ms. Mira, I reject your reality about Twitter, Cecil, and Kearney AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Violence, Cursing, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Drug use, Cannibalism, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Vomit, and Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Stalking