Moving along with the 2025 Theme of Water/Ocean, I chose to pick up a quick read - Rolling the Deep by Mira Grant.
Take a moment to appreciate this cover. It just promises a story that will give a reader the creeps. It was created by American Artist Julie Dillon.
Mira Grant (who also writes as Seanan McGuire) really delivers.
As someone who distractedly watched a few "Faux-umentaries" and was annoyed to learn I'd just basically been watching a weird fantasy...I was immediately drawn in by the story of the Imagine Network making a new attempt to locate mermaids in the remote ocean, above the Mariana Trench.
Imagine network brought real scientists, actual mermaids (as real as we can get), and a full TV crew to catch every moment.
No one, however, expected was to find actual mermaids, and when to do find them, they find themselves entirely unprepared for them. What happens? Well of course- chaos ensues and I am definitely not giving away any of the delicious horror that awaits a curious reader.
In this slim volume Grant has perfect pacing. I mean, perfect. I read this book in about 2 hours, and felt that I knew the characters well, and had a full feel of being in the middle of the ocean. I have not been a huge fan of McGuires more ethereal fantasy style books, but this, I really enjoyed.
The novella also has an array of disability representation (with some uncomfortable examples of ableism noted as well), diverse characters (age, sex, orientations), and just touches on humans and their environmental effects- wherever we go, we do seem to make things less good.
Have you read this book? Have any thoughts? Any recommendations for what to read next? Let me know in the comments!
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