Monday book review: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

I'm going to come out of the gate swinging on this one, because never before have I ever felt so cock-blocked by a book. Into the Drowning Deep promised me one thing, and failed to deliver on all counts.

Remember when all the cool stuff was edited out of a movie when it aired on network TV? You'd get this great build up to some action or sex scene and then SNIP, the censors would cut it out. That's what Mira Grant does with Into the Drowning Deep.

Every time I thought the book was ready to get into the horror action it promised, she'd write around it. The "money shots" were taken out. I have no idea why she'd do that. It's those scenes that draw horror readers to books like this. We want the payoff, dammit!

Grant's book had oodles of potential too. A mismatched crew head out to sea on a research expedition to find mermaids. Yes, mermaids. And when they do, these mermaids are anything but friendly. In fact, all they want to do is kill you.

See! Oodles of potential for a gory B-movie read. But Grant wasn't interested in that. Instead we get lots of interesting ideas, some decent writing, and then...! We're teased a lot, and shown nothing.

Into the Drowning Deep is the complete opposite of Eric Red's It Waits Below. That book is water-based horror done right. Into the Drowning Deep is how you do it wrong, and it's an Ugly.

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