#and the trope of making the deep sea a murder hellzone where everything is as evil and bad as possible

[rxttenfish]

i remember seeing a review for this book before i bought it praising how accurate its portrayal of scientists is, and quite frankly after having read it its depiction of scientists should be considered an insult. it feels like a stereotype of scientists. to this book, scientists have no concern for loss of human life, be it their own or others, and will completely eschew moral and ethical lines for the sake of information. there are multiple instances where someone is gruesomely killed and no one else cares. i fucking hate this book.

also i finally finished Into The Drowning Deep so i never have to look at it again

my review: legitimately one of the worst books i have had the misfortune of reading, made worse by the fact that its all of the tropes that i love and hold dearly. everything feels like a slap in the face to all that i adore. can't even write amphibians, ancient or otherwise, right, and it does poorly on the other scientific facts. you might be drawn to it thinking it'd be a fun found footage with spec evo mermaids. you would be wrong. it has marine biologist david peters who is right (of course she's right), a megalodon believer, and it doesn't get better.