Into the Drowning Deep

A dark story about mermaids. With a science take on the lore and myth of the so called sirens this book is never boring. With some body horror and multiple povs its fast past and feels like a movie. Gory, dense and perfect.

The idea is very good, but the book itself is very stretched. If the author had avoided to express relationships and side stories between the real story items she could have done it on half the pages. The descriptions and explanations are often very long and could have been avoided or summarized in another chapter in advance to not break the flow of reading. Also the underlying science is carved out sometimes excessively, which add some more sides to the book. I like hard fiction, but here it reads sometimes like a science book for education. ***Spoiler*** While I have been serving in the navy, I would expect that all seafaring ships, especially the ones constructed for expeditions and long distance trips, have manually operated bulkheads that can be sealed. In the book the automated mechanism to shut the "doors" to the outside is failing and allowing the mermaids to enter the ship. In reality, with hours to prepare, each captain would order to block the bulkheads, I think.