Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

63 reviews

switt713's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

shetland_pone's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

This was really good and terrifying until somewhere close to the end where it crossed the line into so absurd it's literally hilarious. Like I don't even know what to say. At some point, maybe around 75%, I've honestly forgotten, it just started to go off the rails.

• Clayton's hand falling off like a lizard's tail and groping Luke.
• That moment when the scientist guy described his raging boner and mentioned how even his kinky ex couldn't make him that hard.
• The hand then sprouting another 7 hands and then spider scuttling over to a keypad and opening a door.
• Pretty much everything involving the bees.
• Clayton having an Einstein poster to cover up the hole.
• Luke dragging Clayton's unconscious body through a tunnel while being chased by a giant maggot with the heads of his mother, ex-wife, and missing son.
• Toy basically being flattened by the research station and 8 miles worth of water, except slowly.
• The two dogs being fused together and sucked through a supernatural sparkly goo hole while Luke cried his eyes out.

I literally just laughed at these moments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual violence

jalecd's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Atmospheric and horrifying with visceral descriptions that will often leave you feeling sick and asking yourself “why?!”. I enjoyed the book but mainly was let down by the ending which  felt unsatisfying and sudden. I felt as though there were a number of loose ends that were never tied up, and though likely a narrative choice, I was just left frustrated and wanting answers.

The ‘Gets could have pretty much been completely removed from this book and would have made no impact on the plot or otherwise, it very much feels like a wasted aspect of the plot 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal death, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Incest, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

gssll_lpz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal cruelty, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Incest, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

lithoerary_atria's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

the troop by nick cutter was one of absolute favourites this year and truly the mastery over body horror this guy has makes me wanna study his brain. and that thing persists here too!! that being said i didn't like this one as much i hoped to do.

lemme break it down for ya:

parts 1, 2 & 3? utterly boring and mind-numbing and the whole writing down the sounds made didn't help. also i DIDN'T appreciate the numerous flashbacks that went on for pages. they could've been done away with. 

parts 4 & 5? HELL YEAH, that's my stuff!! horrors beyond human comprehension & feeling helpless? fuck yes!! the writing was still meh tho especially with those internal voices inside luke's mind. it was silly & brought you out of the story lol.

part 6? i- we don't speak about it lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Child death, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

morganhill121's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Child death, Fatphobia, Gore, Pedophilia, Body horror, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

duckmastersupreme's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

2.0

Just... what a mess of a book. A lot of great ideas (possibly too many) and a gripping start, but fell into a jumbled mess by the end. The author had too many balls in the air and ended up dropping most of them. (The 'Gets was a fascinating disease and good lord I wish it had been explored more.) I read this before picking up The Troop, and I'm a bit hesitant to pick up another book of his (which is a shame, because I've only heard good things about that one).

The blatant fatphobia was difficult to slog through. The author could barely seem to get through 10 pages at a time without mentioning how gross Luke's mother's body is. It struck me as a surprisingly lazy shortcut, given what a genuinely horrifying character he had made her from personality alone. Especially in a book that describes a large amount of 'body horror', I found it particularly distasteful.

Also, if your main character is going to be a veterinarian, maybe do, like, base level research before just writing about whatever. (Corn snakes ain't venomous, babe.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse and Fatphobia

Minor: Pedophilia

juliaaa02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

This book actually made me gag. I’ve never read anything quite as graphically unnerving. I almost didn’t finish because of the physical reaction I had to the book. I honestly am still confused about the ending. I had a hard time rating this book, since I was confused for a lot of it. I gave it a 4 due to the physical reactions I had and how genuinely scared I felt for a while after reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Torture, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

acbrummitt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Pedophilia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Self harm, and Torture

graveyardreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Pedophilia, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Rape