Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

246 reviews

winlei's review against another edition

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

3.0

This was so……. odd? I can’t tell if I actually enjoyed this experience. It never veered fully into scary, except maybe at the beginning, with the explanation of the ‘Gets - but mainly because any dementia-related illness is inherently horrific. Definitely more psychological horror than anything else. I’m not sure if it really reached the heights it could have - but I do love an underwater/outer space location as a setting for a horror story, so it got points with me solely based off of that. Unfortunately, the setting had no impact on the story whatsoever so that was extremely disappointing. 
If you like Stephen King’s ramblings to expand on a character’s extremely tragic backstory, intermixed with your horror elements, you may particularly enjoy this. 

The 3-phrase vibe review: 

• Isolation
• Mind games 
• Parasitology 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

wizardteeth's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Death, Murder, and Gore

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

shiv91's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

What in the actual...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Violence

butyougotmysoul's review

challenging dark 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

2.0

First, the fatphobia in this book is absolutely in your face every single chapter. Yes we get it. His mother is fat and arguably a worse monster than the “aliens” down deep. I’m just so tired of evil being depicted as fat. That actually soured the book for me as a whole.  I think I could have enjoyed it if it were for the massive amount of fatphobia. 

The writing itself was exquisite and despairing but the level of fatphobia left this book down as deep as the Trieste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, and Animal death

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

clarke's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.0

Hard to believe this was written by the same author as The Troop. This was so boring. No sense of dread. The killer dementia plague just vanished when that was probably more of a terrifying concept than being underwater and hearing things. Did I mention they’re underwater? Because they’re underwater. It also really wasn't shy with its references - literally quoting them sometimes. The ending may as well have been that it was all a dream, would've made more sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Dementia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

riomadre's review against another edition

I found out that the dog dies a horrible death unnecessarily. Nick Cutter includes a gruesome animal death in every book, and I've only ever seen it further the plot once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

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