Into the Drowning Deep: Mira Grant

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I wasn't sure exactly where the story would head, but at about 20% it occurred to me that it was Jurassic Park, ocean version. It even included two big game hunters everyone loved to hate: "They had traveled the world, taking their prey from every environment, every ecosystem. They had bribed, bartered, and trespassed to line up the perfect shot, creating their own Noah’s Ark of ghosts." As soon as I met them, I felt sure they were the characters we were going to love being eaten, as the ghosts from all their big game hunts took revenge. When he learns about Jason’s death, he admits that Jason had meant nothing to him. He merely complained he lost a lab assistant.

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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. Hired to accompany the Melusine into uncharted waters are a bunch of scientists who, unperturbed by the fact that the vanishing of The Atargatis does rather minimize their chances of survival, are pretty okay with trading temporary mortal life for the greatest benefit of science: Ocean Awe: What the Imagine Network cameramen accompanying both expeditions trying to capture while filming for both documentaries.Nothing, NOTHING happened, boring as hell. I fell asleep at the end of each chapter. I am not kidding. This list of underwater sci-fi and fantasy books is sponsored by Lost Arrow, Book I of The Kalelah Series by Marshall Ross.

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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?

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Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant’s ( a.k.a. Seanan McGuire) science horror novella about a documentary crew who venture into the Mariana Trench in search of a mermaid hoax, only to discover that mermaids are real and very deadly, is becoming a movie! Variety reports that Branded Pictures Entertainment will produce the adaptation, with Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert at the helm. If you’re picturing ‘killer mermaids’ as Ariel with a knife, think again. These are creepy, bite-your-face-off, apex predator mermaids. INTO THE DROWNING DEEP is best read with both feet on solid ground, especially if you happen to scream every time seaweed brushes your legs.