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4.0 stars�� I was in search of something different after reading my last thriller so I thought to myself ..”Self.. how about a book about killer mermaids that wage an attack on a ship filled with research scientists?�� Yes Please. Actually it didn’t go quite like that but after reading numerous good reviews I decided to give it a chance, and boy I am glad I did. The best description of the plot of this book would be very similar to the movie “Aliens�� but set at sea. The book begins very strong with the story of a television production company hiring scientists to man a mission to the Mariana trench to determine the existence of mermaids ( at a location they had previously been seen ). The author is clearly brilliant and writes on difficult medical and science topics with ease while building a great amount of suspense throughout the first half of the book. Unfortunately, as is a problem in many books of this type, once the mermaids attack the suspense is over and the author writes one far-fetched scene after another. I easily predicted who would survive and die and what the ultimate outcome of the story would be. Every scene at the end of the book seemed to have been magically transported from 1980�� and 90’s Stephen King and Dean R Koontz books. Even with the problems at the end of the book, I still recommend reading it because the first 75 percent of it was really really good. However, I guarantee you will never look at Ariel from “The Little Mermaid�� the same again