This isn't my usual read, I'm not a huge horror fan but this drew me in. I mean killer mermaids, c'mon. Well written, plenty of marine science geekery, a disaster movie element, shady entertainment companies, and characters you can root for, or boo.
Here's the review
Seven years ago Imagine Entertainment
sent a ship, The Atargatis, out to
the Marianna trench, their mission to find and film what we would call ‘mermaids’.
The mission was a disaster, the vessel was lost as sea and there were no survivors. What did survive was the footage which
Imagine fought tooth and claw to keep under wraps and which was leaked by a relative of the crew. Depending on who you talked
to over the years it was either the greatest maritime tragedy or the greatest
hoax of our time.
Victoria ‘Tory’ Stewart’s big sister Anne was
among the missing and she has devoted her career to research that might uncover
her sister’s fate. Now, seven years later, Imagine are back, offering big
incentives to get Tory and her research partner to reprise that voyage. Tory
and a massive group of scientists, security ‘experts’, camera crews, big game
hunters and Imagine spokeswoman and geek goddess Oliva Sanderson; under the
auspices of the enigmatic Theo Blackwell and Dr. Jillian Toth, the expert on ‘mermaids’.
Packed onto The Melusine a Disney
Cruise line style behemoth. This time Imagine is taking no chances, they’ve
built massive shutters into the design that will cut off the open decks of the
ship at the first sign of danger. One slight flaw in that plan, the shutters
aren’t responding and what lurks at the bottom of the Marianna Trench is
centuries old, and very very hungry.
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