Mel’s Reviews > Into the Drowning Deep > Status Update

Bruuuhhhhh I’m so stressed and claustrophobic and on edge. It’s so awful. I love it.

I love books that speak complicated science at me. I also love the blunt single sentence reminders that the shutter tests are failing before the story pivots. It’s delicious anxiety in a controlled setting.

Brutal, uncanny killer mermaid cold open? Scientific and Romantic (with a capital R) descriptions of the ocean? Hell—and I cannot stress this enough—yeah.