This is a fantastic novella. It packs a punch with pods of predatory mermaids in the Marianas Trench. A dark and bloody tale, with a clever framing deThis is a fantastic novella. It packs a punch with pods of predatory mermaids in the Marianas Trench. A dark and bloody tale, with a clever framing device, and super readable. I needed the full-length follow-up, Into the Drowning Deep, immediately....more
"There were appetites to be sated, no matter how cold the water became, no matter how strange the sea turned. As long as there were bellies, they woul"There were appetites to be sated, no matter how cold the water became, no matter how strange the sea turned. As long as there were bellies, they would need to be fed. As long as there was life in the sea there would be teeth."
The book about carnivorous mermaids is now my favorite Mira Grant of them all. (Yes, that's including all/any of the Newsflesh series.) The 120+ page novella that launched this series was impressive (Rolling in the Deep -- read it) but the full-length sequel Grant published this year is even better. It's inclusive and reflective of life in so many ways; the disparate group of characters the narrative is centered around are awesome and awful and various mixtures of both.
Into the Drowning Deep has the usual great prose and premise and execution I've come to expect from this multitalented author. She can be counted on to be creatively and horribly plausible when it comes to building and expanding her stories. It's true again here, as it was in Newsflesh and in the Parasitology books. There is so much attention to detail in how Seanan McGuire approaches the idea of modern mermaids -- there's a lot of thought built into this monster story.
"This was not where she belonged. This had never been where she belonged. Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes -- when she was letting her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it -- she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them the change had happened only yesterday, The seas did not forgive and they did not welcome their wayward children back."
I loved it even as/especially when it scared me. Five stars for this story of the unforgiving sea.
A “short” story (nearly 300 pages, natch) featuring Lift’s evolving bond with Wyndle as she evades Nale. Full of voice, several interesting Cosmere-reA “short” story (nearly 300 pages, natch) featuring Lift’s evolving bond with Wyndle as she evades Nale. Full of voice, several interesting Cosmere-relevant moments (Arclo, Skybreakers, Everstorm)....more
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