Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

128 reviews

amycapleitch's review against another edition

Too slow and way too much child and animal harm 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

awebster121's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Animal death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Self harm, Incest, and Abandonment

dale1997's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual violence and Pedophilia

caspian's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

this reads a lot like a stephen king novel if he was normaler about women

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Moderate: Rape, Incest, and Child abuse

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t this. I really like the concept (we need more under water horror books!) but I don’t think it was executed very well. Perhaps I’m simply a hater to my core, but it was a let down at the reveal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Animal death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical content, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Incest

The moderate ones I added (while being utterly horrific, I do not take them lightly) don’t go into details very much and you can definitely get past them fast. Stay safe and protect your heart though. 🫶🏻

smeske's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

TW: depictions of child sexual abuse, graphic depictions of animal abuse, graphic violence, and death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Violence, and Death

alo3veras's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Pedophilia

esharemet's review against another edition

The description of gore and body horror got to be too much for me, especially in audiobook format.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Dementia, Child abuse, Blood, and Animal cruelty

haleybre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Murder, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

augoost's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Absolutely disgusting. The body horror was very inventive and interesting - but the book relied a little bit too much on gratuitous violence, fatphobia, and abuse narratives to add shock value. Also - could have done with more of the story focusing on the 'Gets. We just kinda forget about it (no pun intended) after the first 50 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Body horror

Moderate: Fatphobia