According to UNESCO only 5% of the ocean has been explored, which, to me, makes the ocean an absolutely terrifying place and the perfect subject for a horror novel. Enter: Into the Drowning Deep!

Seven years ago The Atargatis was found empty and adrift at sea. No bodies were ever recovered, but footage of something was. Now The Melusine and her crew of researchers are sailing back to the Mariana Trench, back to those very same waters, in hopes of uncovering their secrets.

Balancing all these characters meant switching between POVs, and in a story that could easily seem repetitive with an obvious ending, the swapping of narrators was a fun and interesting way to introduce new information and keep things feeling fresh. 

I don’t want to give away too much, so I’ll just leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the book. I think it sums the vibes up quite nicely 🤭

“Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes—when she was letting her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it—she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them all change had happened only yesterday. The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”