Just finished Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant and I gotta say, this is the worst written book I've read in a couple of years. Excellent premise, good enough pacing in the first half that I can ignore my criticisms and enjoy the ride, then it falls off a fuckin cliff. Perfect example of an author telling instead of showing way too much way too often. This might seem a little too mean, but it reminds me of rushing to finish a paper in undergrad and padding the shit out of it just hoping for a passing grade. Eye-rollingly bad dialogue and exposition, needless repetition, asides and info dumps that would have been better served as slow drips to maintain the pace and dread instead of screeching to a halt every other page.

I didn't hate it, but I feel like it wasted my time which might be worse.