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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
This book was too much. It was too disturbing. Too disgusting. Too hopeless. For those who can't stand to read about animal cruelty, stay away.
it was too hard to choose one favorite quote from this book (I love nick cutter) so I'll choose two. first, "your child doesn't owe you loyalty or obedience. you owe your child love and understanding, owe it unconditionally, and if you love them strongly enough, eventually that love may be returned." and second, "it's all about percentages, Doc. life is percentages. less than 1 percent of the population. but that's the thing about percentages - no matter how small, they've got to affect someone, right?"
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What the fuck was this book? I felt like I was channeling my inner Joey Tribbiani from Friends, wanting to put it in the freezer. The atmospheric tension was suffocating—you could cut it with a knife. I read this in broad daylight, far from any ocean, and still felt a lingering, spine-tingling fear of what lurks in The Deep.
Set in a future where a devastating plague called “the Gets” causes people to forget how to live—literally—the world clings to hope in a potential cure: a mysterious substance known as “ambrosia” found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. A cutting-edge research station is studying its effects, but something is very wrong down there.
The story follows an unreliable narrator, a man descending into the abyss to rescue his brilliant yet disturbing brother. As reality blurs, we’re left questioning what’s real and what’s a product of madness. Cutter masterfully crafts horror that is both psychological and visceral—I was terrified one moment and crying over the death of a dog the next.
And then there’s the ending… I have no idea what happened, and I’m probably going to be thinking about it forever.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
dark
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:
Complicated
I feel like I didn’t read the book that belongs to the synopsis, but it was an okay horror book? The ending was unsatisfying though tbh
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Just...why?
It was so mind-blowingly pointless and filled with back-to-back "it was all a dream" sequences that I genuinely believed the ending would've been one big "it was all a dream" reveal, and I'm kind of disappointed that that was the only thing that WASN'T a dream in this book.
Nobody:
This book: Let's go to the bottom of the ocean to find a potential cure for a disease that's killing our entire planet (except bees, for no particular reason), and then when we get there we'll just completely forget about why we're here and never revisit the premise but instead torture small animals FoR sCiEnCe, trip through dream sequences, and be scared of the monster in our closets.
This book makes me wish Audible would bring back the Exchange Title function.
It was so mind-blowingly pointless and filled with back-to-back "it was all a dream" sequences that I genuinely believed the ending would've been one big "it was all a dream" reveal, and I'm kind of disappointed that that was the only thing that WASN'T a dream in this book.
Nobody:
This book: Let's go to the bottom of the ocean to find a potential cure for a disease that's killing our entire planet (except bees, for no particular reason), and then when we get there we'll just completely forget about why we're here and never revisit the premise but instead torture small animals FoR sCiEnCe, trip through dream sequences, and be scared of the monster in our closets.
This book makes me wish Audible would bring back the Exchange Title function.