Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

221 reviews

momostark's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Animal cruelty

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

moosereads1's review

 
As soon as they introduced the dog, I remembered the book's author and immediately looked up whether the dog died. It does die, and dogs being harmed/killed is just something I can't go past. I know myself too well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

cosmicpanda's review against another edition

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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Body shaming, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Grief, Pedophilia, and Incest

abeavs's review

dark 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

3.5

Slow start and I didn’t love the ending but the 100-150 pages in the middle were 10/10. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse

socialbookworm74's review against another edition

dark tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

the_bitextual's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

1.5

There's two, maybe three good story's hiding in this. I'll tell you right now a spoiler, the Get's the big bad disease you read about in the blurbs, has NOTHING to do with the story. It's useless and could be excised, but that's the first good, wasted story idea. If this had been a character driven tale about the Gets, boy would I have given it five stars. The second good story is the Ambrosia, but it devolves into a mishmash of horror tropes. Together, it fails to land. 

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Content Warnings

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

jesssicawho's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Incest, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Child abuse