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simonlorden 's review for:
Rolling in the Deep
by Mira Grant
The good:
This is beautifully written, like anything by Mira/Seanan. It's wonderfully creepy, and I love the mermaid lore and how it's built up.
Also, I was listening to the audiobook version, and the narrator's mermaid voices were great.
The bad:
This was also... kind of like reading another Into the Drowning Deep? I don't think we really learned anything new, and my issues with this prequel were the same as with the main book. Namely:
1) The introduction/build-up part is way too long. It was even more frustrating here, because while in Into the Drowning Deep you don't know who's going to make it out, here I knew everyone was going to die anyway.
2) I LOVE casually diverse stories where basically nobody is an abled cis white man. I loved how sign language and deafness was treated here. But I'd still prefer my diverse stories to be the ones where, you know... not everyone dies maybe?
This is beautifully written, like anything by Mira/Seanan. It's wonderfully creepy, and I love the mermaid lore and how it's built up.
Also, I was listening to the audiobook version, and the narrator's mermaid voices were great.
The bad:
This was also... kind of like reading another Into the Drowning Deep? I don't think we really learned anything new, and my issues with this prequel were the same as with the main book. Namely:
1) The introduction/build-up part is way too long. It was even more frustrating here, because while in Into the Drowning Deep you don't know who's going to make it out, here I knew everyone was going to die anyway.
2) I LOVE casually diverse stories where basically nobody is an abled cis white man. I loved how sign language and deafness was treated here. But I'd still prefer my diverse stories to be the ones where, you know... not everyone dies maybe?