Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) in Creatures, Creatures Everywhere!

Jul 04, 2022 Michelle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2022, horror

I finished this a while ago but I was on vacation and hadn't had time to write a review. And it turned out Into the Drowning Deep was an excellent vacation book.

As long as there was life in the sea, there would be teeth.

I think the best part of the book was the novelty. We don't see nearly as many siren horror books as we should. On top of that the writing was excellent.

The trouble with discovery is that it goes two ways. For you to find something, that thing must also find you.

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Nov 19, 2017 Fiona Knight rated it it was amazing

Shelves: absolute-favourites, horror, theyve-taken-the-town

In expanding on the ideas originally introduced in Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant has taken a good idea, and made it truly great.

I'm not a person who likes the sea, exactly - others may call it paranoia, but I prefer to term it a healthy respect for the home of prehistoric monsters who enjoy tasty, tasty people. When I read Rolling in the Deep, I was mildly uncomfortable at times, but the short format kept it from truly getting under my skin. This time though? Far from lessening the tension, th ...more

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May 25, 2018 Tyler Gray rated it really liked it

Shelves: lgbtqia, f-f, own, disability, own-physical, fantasy, mermaids, bisexual

This review is also up on my blog Here.

Actual Rating: 3.75

I really did enjoy this book over-all and am glad I read it! For awhile though I thought it was going to be a new favorite, and...not quite, but I still enjoyed reading it.

I fell in love with many of the characters, and some that I hated it was a "love to hate you" thing, particularly with Michi and Jacques, a married couple that hunt animals for sport and take a lot of joy in killing things for, in my honest opinion, no good reason. Don' ...more

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May 27, 2018 Mike rated it liked it

Shelves: horror, fiction

A science vessel has set sail to find out what happened to the passengers of the Atargatis, a ship that had gone to make an entertaining show about mermaids. Among the passengers on the new ship is Victoria Stewart, whose sister was on the Atargatis. She, along with a few others on the ship, are convinced real mermaids killed the crew of the Atargatis.

One of Grant's strengths is her action/horror scenes. Parts of this reminded me of the movie Alien, with an unknown terror lurking just around the ...more

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Sep 19, 2021 Becca rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror-recs, lgbtqia-rep, ladies-of-horror-fiction, bex-s-recommendations

I'm struggling with my thoughts on this one because I absolutely loved it but I don't know if I loved it as much as I loved the prequel, Rolling in the Deep? I'm still gonna give it five-stars though because when you boil down my thoughts, this book is phenomenal even if there were moments where my attention might have wavered a bit. Mermaids are still terrifying, the characters are amazing, there's a sapphic romance that we love to see & the bloodshed is *chef's kiss*. ...more

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Nov 17, 2017 Laura Thomas rated it it was amazing

After devouring and loving Rolling In The Deep, I couldn’t wait to get on the ocean, set sail, and see how this next venture would wind up.

It’s been seven years since all were lost on the Atargatis. It’s no longer top news and many think it was a hoax. Imagine Network isn’t done yet. They commission a new ship, a much larger crew, security guards, and supposedly failproof systems to protect them from what they now know lives under the waves, deep in the Marianna Trench.

Among the crew is a girl w ...more

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May 30, 2018 Ami Morrison rated it really liked it

Shelves: ha-reads, horror, sea-creatures, physical-copy, creature-features, tbr-challenge-2018, lgbtqia

The ocean is home to many myths. Some are deadly. 7 years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary about real life mermaids. It was lost at sea, no survivors. Now a new crew has been assembled, but they aren't here to entertain. Some seek to validate their lifes work. Some seek a great hunt. Some seek the truth. But for young Victoria Stewart, it is about finding out the fate of the sister she lost. The secrets of the deep come with a price.

Killer. Merm The ocean is home to many myths. Some are deadly. 7 years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary about real life mermaids. It was lost at sea, no survivors. Now a new crew has been assembled, but they aren't here to entertain. Some seek to validate their lifes work. Some seek a great hunt. Some seek the truth. But for young Victoria Stewart, it is about finding out the fate of the sister she lost. The secrets of the deep come with a price.

Killer. Mermaids. YAY! :D I love sea creatures and a killer mermaid theme is one you don't see very often, so I was super excited to read this book. The first few chapters start out with a bang as the author wasted no time showing you the mermaids. Some of the book reads like you are watching a documentary. In fact, I could easily see this whole book as one of those movies that look like documentaries, where everything takes place from a hand held camera or cameras located on the ship. I think it would work pretty well, but I digress! So the book starts off pretty quickly... but then, there are several chapters where we see what the main characters are doing before they actually get on the 2nd ship to go see what happened to the 1st ship. I felt like those character chapters off the boat slowed things down way too much and that all of that information could have been covered, quickly, when those characters got to the boat. It seemed like filler. The book didn't pick back up until every one boarded the boat. After that point, things picked back up and it wasn't long before the shit hits the fan.

I only really have 1 big complaint. I don't like the part about the dolphins. If you are like me, and not a fan of animals getting killed, just skip those sections. I felt it was too depressing, but I have a zero tolerance for animal death in books and movies, so maybe that was just me. *shrug*

This book had very diverse characters. There were 2 main characters who were deaf and used ASL. That was really cool to see in a book. I can't recall another time I have seen that in any form of media entertainment. Another nice thing was that the romance angle of the book was between two of the female main characters. It was handle very well, and very lovingly. Also, the romance wasn't crammed down our throat. I hate when an author does that in any book. Just small moments of it is all you need. A little goes a long way!

For me, the more I read, the better the book became. If you can just get passed the slow parts in the beginning, the book picks up and there is a lot of great action that happens as the book moves along. I enjoyed it once I got to the heart of the story. I would read a book two (if this is a series? Some places say it is, some places say it isn't...? I don't know).
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Feb 02, 2019 FlowerFairy rated it really liked it

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Jan 28, 2019 Chelle_Rydz rated it it was amazing

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