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Into the Drowning Deep Paperback – Unabridged, May 29, 2018
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"Absolutely delivers on beastly terror.... Best-selling author Mira Grant is one of today's best horror authors, and Into the Drowning Deep takes its place among her best work."―Vulture
"Will unnerve and enthrall even seasoned horror fans. . . Mira Grant masterfully ratchets the tension up and down, holding readers firmly in her grip."―BookPage
"Grant's skillfully crafted story combines science, horror, and mystery into a gripping novel of terror on the sea."―Library Journal (starred review)
"Utterly terrifying."―RT Book Reviews
"Entertained and enraptured from the first page to the last."―Bookriot
"Engrossing and adrenaline-fueled"―Shelf Awareness
"A U.S. presidential campaign set in a zombie-infested future bears an eerie resemblance to the way we live now. Simply jump in and enjoy ... a whip-smart thriller overflowing with sharp ideas and social commentary."―Kirkus (starred review) on Feedback
"Astonishing ... a fascinating exploration of the future."―New York Times on Newsflesh series
"While there's plenty of zombie mayhem, political snark, and pointedly funny observations here, the heart of this book is about human relationships, which are still the most important thing in the world...even in a world where you might have to shoot the person you love most in the head, just to stop them from biting off your face."―Locus on Feed
"Feed is a proper thriller with zombies. Grant doesn't get carried away with describing her world or the virus. She's clearly thought both out brilliantly, but she doesn't let it get in the way of a taut, well written story."―SFX on Feed
"The story starts with a bang as corruption, mystery, danger and excitement abound."―RT Book Reviews (4.5 stars) on Feed
"Gripping, thrilling, and brutal... Shunning misogynistic horror tropes in favor of genuine drama and pure creepiness, McGuire has crafted a masterpiece of suspense with engaging, appealing characters who conduct a soul-shredding examination of what's true and what's reported."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Feed
"Intelligent and intense, a thinking-person's post-apocalyptic zombie thriller set in a fully-realized future that is both fascinating and horrifying to behold."―John Joseph Adams on Feed
"I can't wait for the next book."―N.K. Jemisin on Feed
"It's a novel with as much brains as heart, and both are filling and delicious."―The A. V. Club on Feed
"OK, all of you readers who want something weighty and yet light, campy and yet smart, horror with heart, a summer beach read that will stay in your head and whisper to you "what if," Deadline is just what you are looking for."―RT Book Reviews on Deadline
"Deft cultural touches, intriguing science, and amped-up action will delight Grant's numerous fans."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Deadline
"Intelligent and exciting...raises the bar for the genre."―Telegraph on Deadline
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- Publisher : Orbit; Reprint edition (May 29, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 480 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316379379
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316379373
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.38 x 1.13 x 8.25 inches
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About the author

Mira Grant lives in California, sleeps with a machete under her bed and highly suggests you do the same. Mira Grant is the open pseudonym of Seanan McGuire, a successful fantasy writer and the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Find out more about the author at www.miragrant.com or follow her on twitter @seananmcguire.
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Yeah sure, mermaids are all well and good until they come and EAT YOUR DING-DANG FACE OFF.
OK, I completely loved this book. I love all things mermaids (or sirens, as the case may be) and so many mermaid-ish things I read are teenage girls discovering they're a mermaid princess, or teenage mermaids just wanting to be part of your world, and blah-dee-freakin'-blah.
These are not those type of mermaids. These mermaids want to EAT your world.
The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. 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.
I did not read the prequel novella, Rolling in the Deep, before reading Into the Drowning Deep, and I can assure you that you can read this for full effect without reading the prequel.
There are a lot of characters in what is essentially an ensemble piece, and they all had their own unique little quirks and foibles for there being so many of them. A lot of times upon finishing a book I couldn't tell you the names of the hero and heroine, let alone all the supporting cast. But let me give you the run down.
Dr. Jillian Toth is a total badass and by far and away my favorite character. Actually she reminds me of someone… (Ripley from the Aliens movies)
Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all.
-Dr. Jillian Toth
Her (estranged) husband, Theo, is a suit for Imagine who is also badass in his own, quieter and more bespectacled way. He reminds me of Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club in some ways.
Michi and Jacques are (badass) big game hunters, Michi being a hot Aussie of Japanese descent and Jacques being a somewhat deranged French-Canadian. Olivia is a hot blonde reporter for Imagine that's a cosplay queen that always dresses in Emma Frost closet cosplay, and is followed around by her burly cameraman/bodyguard Ray. Tory is a hot lesbian scientist who lost her sister on the first mermaid mission (the Atargatis) and is accompanied by her too much money friend Luis who is essentially a cryptozoologist that plays with sonar. Hallie is the hot hearing older sister scientist to hot twin redheads Holly (another scientist, biology maybe?) and Heather (who drives something called a Minnow that's like a super fancy diving bell submersible thing) - all three of whom are hot, did I mention that? Daniel the hot tattooed cetologist (I may have misspelled that, but it's some sort of scientist that involves dolphins. I dunno, don't ask me). Daryl and Gregory are two quasi-bumbling engineers who remind me a little bit of some cartoon character duo or other that I can't quite place.
So essentially, you have a whole bunch of hot scientist ladies, and some guys who may or may not be hot. That's about the only thing that bugged me about the entire book, that all these nerds in one place and either somehow we just happen to randomly focus on the ones that are hot, or they're ALL hot science nerds (at least the ladies, anyway). I don't know about you, but my experience science nerds tend to not be so hot. I'm not saying they're NOT hot, but there shouldn't be a 100% hit rate on attractive ladies in a pool of, like, half a dozen women. Oh, but there's lots of diversity because Michi is Japanese/Australian, and Heather and Holly are deaf, and Tory and Olivia are lesbians (Tolivia 4eva, btw), and Jillian is older. …Anyway, I digress.
There is mighty gore, and coming together and a coming apart of peoples, crazy stuff and plot twists about mermaids and their biology and their motives. If you can survive long enough (translation: if I mermaid doesn’t split its face in half to chomp you with the billions of needle teeth jutting out of its gaping maw…) you might just get to stick around for Book #2 (which I assume is coming, since this one is titled as being Rolling in the Deep #1).
I know it sounds like I’m harping on the book quite a bit, but that’s why I’m going with 3 stars; it’s not a perfect book, but it’s not horrible, either. I was entertained during my read, and I enjoyed a few of the characters quite a bit. The concept of the mermaids was cool and their viciousness created a number of gruesome scenes (including in ways you might not expect). In my mind, this is the equivalent to a summer popcorn flick: relatively disposable entertainment that works as a fun rollercoaster ride — your quintessential beach read (literally). I do think this book is worth the read, just don’t go in expecting Michael Chrichton or Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Into the Drowning Deep is a sequel or follow up to the super scary and amazing novella, Rolling in the Deep. Drowning, however will stand on its own; you do not need to read the first book to understand. (Seriously though, Rolling in the Deep is fabulous).
This novel follows Victoria, whose sister was one of those lost on the Atargaris in a previous mission to the Mariana Trench looking for mermaids. There’s a new and larger team of scientists and television personalities going out there and this time they think they’re more prepared. They’re probably not. 🙂
This is straight up horror and it is fabulous in that way that only Mira Grant can do. It’s smart, hilarious, and ultimately horrifying which is what we’re all looking for with a book like this, right? She also does a crap-ton of research in order to make all her terrifying things believable and oh my! are they believable. It makes everything that much more scary.
So definitely go check this out if you want something scary and well written and terrifyingly plausible.
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Into the Drowning Deep goes down the science fiction route, looking at mermaids not as a mythical, fantasy creature, but as a newly discovered marine animal... and a vicious predator. I loved this angle. The whole story felt so realistic and plausible, at times I completely forgot I was reading SFF.
The ensemble cast is massive and brilliantly diverse -- I've listed the representation as best I remember, but I might easily have missed someone (let me know in the comments). Even though there are loads of characters, they all felt fully rounded out to me. I never got the characters confused or had a character whose POV I wanted to skim. Even the despicable characters had a glimmer or something that made them just relatable enough. Even Jason... whose face I wanted to get eaten off.
Finally, I was so impressed by the atmosphere! The whole book was incredibly written. It had a claustrophobic, pressure-cooker thing going on throughout. I was on the edge of my seat and it felt like no-one was safe. I'll definitely not be booking myself on a cruise anytime soon.
Dr Toth is basically The Luidaeg in a different setting: not a bad thing as I liked the character but not one I expected to see being recycled here. I also saw several similarities between other characters in this, and in her other books.
I appreciate there should be diversity but lately it seems like the author is ramming it down our throats, as is the case with some of her other work that I've read recently. I agree with some other reviews, it could have been far subtler without derailing the story so much.
That said, I did enjoy quite a lot of this book. The biggest issue for me is the end. The majority of it was pretty good (can't comment on the technical errors other people have mentioned) and kept my interest most of the way through.
However, the end... Extremely extremely poor and rushed. I can't bear books which have a not-awful build up and kind of keep you hanging in there, and which then come to far too quick finish without a really good resolution and a far too obvious 'twist'. Though it's so predictable you can't really call it that. It's like the author got bored or just fed up with the story and gave up. Shame in many ways.
On the whole not the worst thing out there you could read, but not best by Mira Grant by a long way. :(
As soon as I finished it, I knew I wanted more from Grant about these creatures, so this novel-length follow-up has been on my TBR since its release in 2017 and I’m so glad I finally got to it.
Set seven years after the events of Rolling in the Deep (while I do recommend reading the novella because it’s such good fun, I wouldn’t say you couldn’t understand this novel if you happened to pick it up first), Into the Drowning Deep follows Victoria “Tory” Stewart, a woman whose older sister, Anne, was killed when the ship she was on, the Atargatis, was attacked by creatures which most of the world still don’t believe exist.
Imagine Entertainment funded the Atargatis‘s expedition to search for mermaids, but ever since no one from that expedition returned alive and footage was found showing killer mermaids, the company has been fighting to regain their reputation amidst rumours that the whole thing was a sick hoax.
Tory is one of many scientists, as well as a couple of hunters and some of Imagine’s employees (such as a presenter), who are hired by Imagine to set out on another expedition to prove the existence of mermaids and clean up their reputation. What they inevitably find makes a lot of them wish they’d stayed at home…
This is a difficult one for me to review, because while I did enjoy it, and I’m glad I read it, I can’t deny that I was a little disappointed by it – and that makes me so sad!
Tory is our main protagonist and I liked her a lot, and there are several other characters we follow whom I also enjoyed – particularly Jillian Toth, who’s the kind of grumpy older woman I always find myself rooting for when I read SFF, and Olivia – but, personally, I never quite felt like I got to know all of them well enough to really care if they died.
I wanted Tory and Olivia to make it (I’m thrilled to have found a horror novel with a budding f/f romance) and I didn’t want anything to happen to Dr Toth either, but as I mentioned in my review of HEX, if I don’t really, really care about characters in horror then I find it difficult to really, really care if there’s a chance they might die. I promise I can hear how heartless that sounds, too, but horror novels with so many characters work a little like slasher films for me in that regard. If you think of any slasher film you’ve seen, was there ever an instance where every single character death broke your heart? Or any of them, for that matter?
One of the reasons IT: Chapter One worked so well for me was because it made me care about those kids so much that I didn’t want Pennywise to eat them. Into the Drowning Deep had the issue, for me, that not only did I not care about all of the major characters as much as I wanted to, but because they were colleagues, and not necessarily friends, there was no emotional attachment to all of the other characters that I could feel vicariously through them either.
There are characters who are friends, lovers, siblings, sure, but so many of these characters were scientists that, when the first person is killed, they celebrate finding a mermaid rather than mourning the loss of their colleague and I found that a little difficult to believe. Surely even a scientist would want to go back home as soon as they realised that a) mermaids are real and b) they’re very hungry?
I’m not sure I really know what I’m saying, there was just some kind of barrier between me and the characters that meant I didn’t love this novel as much as I wanted to. I also felt like the ending was a little rushed, and I’m not sure how to feel about the conclusion which didn’t exactly feel like a conclusion. Perhaps there are more books planned in this series, and I’ll definitely read them if there are, but if not I’m not sure the ending solved anything.
That aside, I love the way Grant meshes myth with science in her science fiction. The way she writes science and the biology of her version of mermaids makes me want to be a cryptozoologist, despite not being scientifically brained in the slightest. Rather than writing a fantasy novel that follows the conventional mermaids we have in our folklore, Grant considers what these kinds of creatures would actually be like if they were real, much like the way Marie Brennan writes about dragons in The Memoirs of Lady Trent series, and that’s what makes this book so fresh.
This’ll sound weird, I know, but Grant’s science fiction makes me wish she’d been my science teacher at school. She makes science cool, which is more than my science teachers ever managed to do for me.
So Into the Drowning Deep isn’t the new favourite I hoped it would be, but I enjoyed it and Grant’s science fiction continues to be the kind of science fiction I love.
I really liked this book! It was a bit like reading a Lake Placid kind of movie - there are certain character types you know to expect, and certain events you know to expect, and it was soo fun to watch it all unfold. Sometimes you need to read a book that you KNOW is going to give you a certain experience, and this was that for me.
Tory is a marine biologist in San Francisco, and though she's spent her academic life studying whale sonography and trying to pick apart the sound of the sea, it's mermaids she's really interested in. Her sister Anne died on an excursion to the Mariana Trench seven years ago - an all-paid trip thanks to Imagine Entertainment - with the aim of filming a documentary about the possibility of mermaids existing. Their boat was found days later with all hands lost. Now Imagine are sending a new boat, and Tory is the first to sign up, desperate to find whatever took her sister.
I loved the science angle this novel pitched the concept at. It had a great mix of narratives: we got lecture transcripts, diary entries, clips from research papers - all to underpin the idea that these creatures *could* exist. Mira Grant did a fabulous job of setting it up from start to finish, and delivering the gruesomeness you might expect from a predatory, million-year-old creature with a will to survive matching that of a human.
Great book! Give it a go!
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