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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2019! I did this the last couple of years and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Rolling In The Deep

Rolling In The Deep #0.5

by Mira Grant

Genre:  Horror

My Review

I’ve read several stories where I knew how it ended before it began. It really worked with this book.

 Imagine Network thought it would be a real money maker to launch an expedition to the Marianna Trench to prove the myth about mermaids was true. When the Atargatis was later found adrift, it’s decks splattered with blood and all people on board gone, they used some found footage to discover what happened on the fateful voyage.

That wicked cover promised some evil mermaids. I sure got those. They might not have made their appearance til well into the story, but everything I read before that was just as entertaining. Mira fleshed out her characters just enough for me to connect with them and her scientific approach to what the creatures were was fascinating and surprising. And when she finally brought those mermaids to the surface, it was a very unpleasant meeting.

It’s been said that the bottom of the ocean is the last unexplored place on our planet. Who knows what dwells in the deep. I think that’s part of why I enjoyed this book as much as I did. The idea of mermaids as a myth or genuine. Who knows. Friend or foe. Who knows. And what if they are real? What happens then?

I watched the movie Jaws when it first came out. Many years later I moved to a coastal town. The first time I stepped in the ocean, I spotted a wave curling towards shore and all I could think was is there a shark in there. I never truly felt comfortable swimming in the sea because of that movie. Now I have something else to make me hesitate to enter the water. I wouldn’t want to have a close encounter with Mira’s mermaids.

Rolling In The Deep is a novella sized story with a super sized bite. I had a blast reading it and immediately went on line and grabbed the follow up book, Into The Drowning Deep.

If you love evil mermaids, this is one you should dive into. It was all kinds of creepy fun for me.

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Synopsis

When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses.

They didn’t expect actual mermaids.  They certainly didn’t expect those mermaids to have teeth.

This is the story of the Atargatis, lost at sea with all hands.  Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.  Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the bathypelagic zone in the Mariana Trench…and the depths are very good at keeping secrets

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