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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

Mira Grant

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 16, 2018

Discussion leader: Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack)

Why we're reading this: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant follows a group of people attempting to figure out whether a ship tr…more
[close] Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant follows a group of people attempting to figure out whether a ship tragedy from three years ago was actually the fault of a cluster of murderous mermaids. It is creepy! There is eye horror at one point! It is super interesting. It is ridiculously addicting. The romance is between a bi scientist and an autistic lesbian camera operator and it killed me and also my ghost. Oh, and also, if any of you know Seanan McGuire and her Every Heart A Doorway series, this is actually her under a different name.

This is one I adore that went super under the radar. It has been conveniently placed during this month, as it qualifies for the ever-popular Tome Topple readathon! We'll be reading it mostly from July 2nd to July 16th, but the discussion will hopefully go on throughout the month.

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Nov 06, 2017 Melanie (meltotheany) rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, adult, lgbtqiap, read-in-2017, thriller, sapphic, dark, horror, romance, arc

ARC provided by Hachette in exchange for an honest review.

“Ships kept on disappearing. Since the start of man’s relationship with the sea, ships kept on disappearing. So assume the mermaids have never forgotten about us. We wrote them off as legends as soon as they were no longer knocking on our front door.”

This is such a hard review to write, but I suppose three star reviews usually are. I just feel really torn on this one! I loved so many aspects of this, but ultimately I feel like ...more

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Jun 11, 2019 Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ rated it liked it

Shelves: 3-star, year-2019, lgbt

Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars

I definitely enjoyed parts of this book but it has a long-winded aspect to it that kept my engagement wavering in and out while I read.

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Dec 16, 2018 Ale rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-book, contemporary-author, female-author, amazing-female-heroines, american-authors, lgbt-literature, horror, supernatural-theme, published-in-2010s, fairyland

I'm no stranger to Mira Grant (the pen-name of the award-winning author Seanan McGuire) and for the most part, I enjoyed her novel Feed (though I can't say the same of the rest of the books in that series, unfortunately). It had nasty horror bits that I could get really excited about (and characters you like actually die rather than getting plot armour invincibility) and the characters were diverse, interesting and the plot was riveting enough that I just kept on reading.

Now, unfortunately, ...more

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Oct 09, 2023 Teleseparatist rated it liked it

Shelves: 2023

Second Spooktober read of 2023. Once the plot gets going, it was really fun in a page-turner, beach read sort of way, but boy, do I wish McGuire's editor clamped down on the repetitions and asides. How many times do we need to be told that nature is red in tooth and claw (not necessarily in these words). How many times must characters explain their MO (either in narration or in monologue). I would have liked it 20% better with 80% less "This character is awesome, see how awesome they are? Real a ...more

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Jun 02, 2019 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019, own

When’s this getting a movie adaptation?

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Jul 05, 2021 Hannah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: recommend

LET MIRA GRANT WRITE HORROR MOVIES!!! This book reads like a horror movie 100% and it’s fun and spooky. There’s gore and death and it’s just slightly too adult to give to teens, unfortunately. There is a bit of adorable sapphic romance but it’s not the focus and should not have been anyways. Deaf characters are allowed to exist and do their jobs and there’s also a character on the autism spectrum who is allowed to exist and do her job as well. The Deaf characters do experience ableism unfortunat ...more

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Dec 05, 2023 Victoria rated it liked it

Shelves: sapphic, lgbt-characters

Uh.... I don't know about this one. I had moments where I was really enjoying it and then moments that were like... huh? The ending really started to get into silly territory with plot armor for certain characters. ...more

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