Creepy Long Fingers: The mermaids have two extra joints on their fingers, plus claws. They look spindly but are strong enough to gouge metal. Further emphasized in the prequel Rolling in the Deep when David attempts to communicate with the sirens via sign language. Unfortunately, the signs he use tell them he wants to be eaten. The mermaids are understandably puzzled by this but decide since these 'strange things' are delicious, who are they to question their good fortune? Quill on The Secret of the Sul’Dam: Subtle Changes to the Way the One Power Works in The Wheel of Time TV Series 3 hours ago I knew Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant had it in her, somewhere. She takes the promise she had shown in Feed, her creature inventiveness from Discount Armageddon and weaves them together with the horror atmosphere from Every Heart a Doorway to create a terrifically scary tale. I would recommend this book to readers who love plot-driven stories with memorable characters and plenty of suspense.

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This wasn’t as good as I hoped, but I still liked it well enough. I’m just going to review with quotes Bland-Name Product: In-universe visual example: Olivia dresses almost exactly like Emma Frost of X-Men fame, close enough that fans of her show can see the resemblance but not so close that Marvel/ Disney can sue the studio. when i heard she was planning to return to these creatures with a full-length novel, i was overjoyed. and it totally delivers - it's everything that was fresh and original about the novella, only on a much grander scale. <——- that is not a fish pun. unless you like that sort of thing. it’s just … more across the board. this book is about three times the size of the novella, the boat in this book is much larger than the novella’s atargatis (b/c jaws meme is troof), and it is carrying twice as many passengers as the mere 200 lost in that first mermaid-finding mission. and the boat itself, well, as the beleaguered captain phrases it: Every person on this vessel was a story in the process of telling itself, and all of them were fascinating, and all of them deserve to be heard.

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And then you wish you didn’t know. Trigger warnings for a couple of really terrifying scenes and minor body / eye horror. Driven to Suicide: Subverted with David from the novella, the first mate of the Atargatis. He was attempting to communicate with the sirens, but they mistook his attempts as him offering to be eaten by them. He dies instantly from drowning before they begin to tear him apart. Which leads me, not incidentally, to one of the things that Grant/McGuire is finally getting right for such a prolific author who likes to see the unseen and counter expectations: we finally have a female cast that feels developed and well-rounded. And while a romance is brought into it, it's a queer one, quite possibly the first in all her thirty-five-ish books. Into the Drowning Deep is the story of what happens when science belongs to the highest bidder, when sensationalism outweighs safety, when the news cycle must be fed no matter what the cost. It is the story of what it means to grieve so deeply that your bones are coral made, that your heart refuses to be still until the sins of the past can be put safely to rest, that the world weighs too much, crushing you. And yeah, it's a story about mermaids. Horrifying, marine biologist-approved mermaids, lurking in the deepest parts of the ocean, ready to devour you.”

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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jacques and Michi are married big game hunters killing just for the thrill, sometimes endangered species as well, but truly love each other. When they aren't hunting, they're either preparing or having sex. Jacques is devastated when Michi's killed. The characters are really great, and I enjoyed their interactions together. Although the novel is low on romance—the characters are far more preoccupied courting trouble with the deadly creatures of the watery deeps than with each other—there's a sapphic romance blossoming between Tory and Olivia that was so good, and seeing Dr. Jill and Theo goad each other into new lows was fun to read and I was rooting for them to gather the tatters of their broken marriage into a semblance of a relationship, maybe.It’s beautiful,” breathed Daniel, and while there were those who would have objected to the reverence in his voice, none of them corrected his statement. It was beautiful, in its own terrible way. So many monsters are. A number of the sirens' traits are similar to anglerfish which foreshadows their Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism. Spotting the Thread: Sirens can perfectly mimic any sound they hear, but they can only repeat it exactly and have no sense of the context of the sounds most of the time. As such, they can be found out when they do things like mimic the sound of a boat motor a mile under the surface or repeat the same whale song regardless of circumstance. If we're successful, there will be a documentary. My employers are very good at managing the details." Captain Peterman went cold. Being the first to say the word mermaid would be to lose. He would not lose. Voice level, he said, "Something in the water? Son, I don't know if you're aware, but we're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There's lots of somethings in the water. This is their home. As far as they're concerned, we're 'something in the water,' and they're probably pretty keen on us moving along."