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The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.36 AVERAGE

dark 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: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
dark emotional sad 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: Yes

A promising premise and eerie stage quickly fragment into a series of aimless set piece scenes and ultimately a supremely disappointing conclusion. 
dark mysterious tense slow-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
dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book would have made a better novella or short story in my opinion. 
I felt that it really dragged on unnecessarily. Nick Cutters stylistic approach really worked in 'The Troop' but I feel that there was too much talk and not enough action in this one. The dialogue didn't add enough texture for it to be worth it. 
adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes

Man oh man if Cutter had just scrapped that second to last chapter this probably woulda been 4 stars. 

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