Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

80 reviews

szyca's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Gore, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

fictionaladventures's review against another edition

4.0

Wow, this is not for the faint of heart! One of the most horrific horror stories I’ve read! I adore deep sea horror, and this one was incredibly creepy and addicting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, and Blood

fuathling's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

g_xandra's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

Vivid descriptions, Cutter’s style is easy to follow but not for the faint of heart. If you enjoy horror with body horror and crippling claustrophobia, you might enjoy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Animal death

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

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

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

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

e_gracereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

This book is a 5 star read until literally the last… 20 pages? Which is just really typical for Nick Cutter, unfortunately. I LOVE his plots and I LOVE his books and they’re nauseating and gut wrenching, and then the last 20 pages rolls around and totally ruins it. The plot gets lost by whatever weird crock shit he’s come up with, overexplaining things to the point where they’re no longer scary, and the ending will just leave you unsatisfied. I am just not ever impressed with how his books end — he spoon feeds you the answer instead of just leaving you with dread. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

hannanni41's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

I really wanted to love this book. The description of the book made it seem like exactly my kind of thing: a mysterious evil lurking in an underwater lab that's 8 miles below the surface in the Marianas Trench. I had seen comparisons with The Abyss, The Shining, Alien, Sphere, Event Horizon, and Solaris. 

Unfortunately the story has absolutely zero slow burn and cranks up to an 11 almost immediately (and stays insane the whole time with no regard for pacing) and it felt like it was mostly just flashbacks and rarely creepy underwater lab.

Flashbacks to the protagonist's awful, abusive childhood with his evil fat, super fat (did I mention she's fat? The author takes every opportunity he can to remind us) mom. Flashbacks to tell us more about his sociopath scientist brother that we're supposed to care about saving. More flashbacks to the protagonist's son being kidnapped and his marriage falling apart. Other people describing their flashbacks to the protag or him reading about their flashbacks in journals. Flashbacks!

There are a few genuinely good moments that unnerved me, like

the stuff with the bees

, but not enough. Most of the parts that were supposed to be scary either felt like an exercise in how much misery the author could put the characters through or were derivative of the (much) better works this book gets compared to. The inciting incident of the nonsense pandemic doesn't even end up mattering to the story. It just gets shoved to the side with all the other nonsense plot points.

Also, there is so much description and talk about a millipede incident. It goes on for so long that it stops being scary and is just really gross. Please stop talking about the millipede.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Incest, Child death, and Domestic abuse