Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

47 reviews

finalgirl_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

layvitar's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

LB :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

recollections's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

"the emergency lights flickered, then died. darkness fell like a guillotine blade."

this is a fever dream!! what the fuck was that ending!! (i actually really liked it but the middle dragged for me eh)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Incest, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

thegr8estangell's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was a wild ride. What's real? What was in his mind? What was that ending? What is going on. I liked the book, the slow decent into madness. The creative gore was a bit farfetched at times, but not bad. I REALLY don't like animal deaths in books, so I was not a huge fan of that. Sometimes the timeline got really confusing. What was a flashback? What was real life? Did this story even really end? The ending left a few too many loose ends in my opinion. But, it was a well written book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, and Violence

queer_venus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I can't stress enough how desperately Mr Cutter needs to seek out therapy. I've never been driven to feeling physically sick from a book before. I've had fainting spells that have hurt less than reading this book. One time I trapped my nail in a car door and I watched it rot and fall out aged 8 and that experience scarred me less than this book. If given the choice to die or read this book again- I would already have my tickets booked for Sweden. What the fuck is wrong with this author, something truly terrible must have happened to him 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

the_escapist's review against another edition

dark 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

3.25

I was here for the deep ocean setting, claustrophobia, and slowly losing sanity – that part was done really well. But a huge element features monstrous creations and really graphic gore, which I’m fairly indifferent about.

I thought the first half was great (tense, fast-paced, good with characters, nice balancing backstory with what's going on presently, slowly amping up dread...), the second half less so. It seemed to get slower and more samey. Or maybe it's just a taste thing because that type of horror just doesn't really capture my interest (I'm not squeamish or particularly bothered by it, it just doesn't really make me feel anything).

The ending wasn't bad, but I think it would've been far more effective if the last few chapters were cut.

Reading this taught me that I have a fairly high tolerance for terrible things happening to humans in fiction, but not animals. 

For what it was aiming to be, this book did a pretty good job overall. But it didn't match my taste and what I wanted from it and I found the latter half considerably less intriguing and engrossing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Incest, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

tieflingkisser's review against another edition

dark tense

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Incest, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing