Into the Drowning Deep question

To me, the sirens make me think of angler fish. You know, the ones with gross teeth and a luminescent lure sticking out in front of the face? They recently got an image of a mated one. The fish you think of with the description are the females, while the males are super tiny in comparison. They mate by biting into the female, and dissolving their own face, permanently attaching themselves, only getting nourishment from the relatively gigantic female.

I think 'Mira' may have been inspired by that when she created the sirens.

I was okay with the explanation of the sirens (and I'm an oceanographer in my day job). What bothered me was the scientific equipment they used on the ship and the lack of power the Captain had.

@Lianne; I am so with you on the angler fish perspective. I thought the same thing! It's like some kind of weird angler fish/honeybee hybrid thing.

I truly hated this book. It was so trope heavy that I hoped the humans would die faster than they did. The sirens and humans were both just exhaustingly stupid - it was like reading the equivalent of Science Theater 3000. IF the sirens had a more notable scientific explanation, other that what the story provided, it still would have been awful. This story seemed to try for a Creature from the Black Lagoon concept but it fails miserably. If I wasn't rolling my eyes then I was groaning with the silliness of it all. No science behind the sirens so they were just silly ripoffs of the Gill-man from CFTBL. The author can write that a character is terrified but unlike what Captain Picard says, that doesn't always make it so. The only thing that scared me was reading to the end of the story. One of the worst reads I have ever experienced.

I enjoyed the sirens. I thought that they were a more realistic version vs a more disneyesque version. the overall book I didn't much care for. It was very dull in parts and a struggle to get through.

I thought the beginning of this book was a little slow and that there were just so many different characters that they tried to cram into the story who were not necessary. I thought that the sirens were very cool and I enjoyed the parts from their perspective. I listened to this book on Audible and the narration was very well done, and thinking about it I think I may have skimmed a little bit and not made it all the way through if I had actually been reading it.
I did enjoy the different take on mermaids as monsters of the sea.

I for sure thought the same with the angler fish comparison! I don't really know how to feel about the males vs the female though...I wish we got to see more of the female as the end was very anticlimactic in my opinion :(

I 100% think that the sirens would work from a scientific standpoint. Everything that was stated for the scientific reasoning behind why the sirens were possible wasn't far from what we see in actual science with other species both land and sea dwelling. The few things that do seem a bit far from scientific plausibility in my opinion are that humans and sirens evolved from the same species (which would be very difficult to prove given how similar the sirens are to other sea species that are completely unrelated) and them being both intelligent enough to communicate with humans in several different ways while still maintaining a sort of hive-mind objective. That being said I don't think it's too bad scientifically speaking as far as fiction novels go.

I personally LOVED this book! I thought the Sirens were absolutely terrifying. I also thought angler fish.

I loved them, deep sea sirens my beloved.