Now, even when it reads a lot like a b-horror film it is at least a very well written one, at least for b-horror film standards. Grant ever set out to reinvent the wheel here. Even the characters themselves are standard horror fare because, well, I don’t really think Mrs. Expedition goes out to the sea to find mermaids. The setup is a standard for horror, particularly horror films: A motley crew of characters gathers for an expedition. It might even make a better film than a novel. The result is a novel that, while not a movie script, wouldn’t be all that difficult to adapt. In that way it’s different from any books I’ve read before, as most of the Horror literature I’ve been exposed to had markedly different pacing and tropes than what we usually find in movies, while here Grant feels content with embracing horror b-movie standards. That’s the main thing I can say about Mira Grant’s Into the Drowning Deep: It feels, and reads, very much like a horror film. Review rating 4/5 A horror film disguised as a book.
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