Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

98 reviews

priceliketag's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Violence

emilye7843's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

1.0

the writing style really ruined this book for me. it was not convincing, asking the author to simply believe things about character because it was stated, but never writing or showing them in a genuine or convincing way.  the author was extremely fatphobic, not only in the way it used fatness as a tool to demonize a character, but it was also full of paragraphs solely devoted to describing their body in ways meant to evoke disgust. sprinkle in some racist metaphors, misogynistic lines, etc and this book is a hard miss. 

the whole book kind of felt like what you’d see on r/menwritingwomen but for pretty much on topic the book touched on

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, and Racism

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

bug23's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I found myself disturbed. I felt a sense of familiarity in this story. But I’m the best way. It was graphic, very graphic. The only part that really bothered me was the top trigger warning. The pacing worked really well for me and I read it in a day or two. I really enjoyed this and I think this has landed close to the top of my tops books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

lollypopzoo's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

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

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

dezaraemd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was the most gripping, intense, horrifying book I have ever read. Well done, Nick Cutter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

pages_for_holly's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia and Sexual assault

falloutrocker's review

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

jesshorn10's review against another edition

5.0

 This book was so good! The way the author built tension throughout the story was very well done, and there were lots of scenes that genuinely creeped me out. The twists were unexpected, and the imagery was horrifying at times. Parts of the story reminded me of IT and The Shining in the best possible ways. I loved this!

Check content warnings though! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail