Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

33 reviews

pseyeyy's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

duckleberryferry's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

What WAS that? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Body horror, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Fatphobia, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Self harm

molsreads's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Gore, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Kidnapping, Medical content, Body horror, Animal death, and Death

szyca's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Gore, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bug23's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I found myself disturbed. I felt a sense of familiarity in this story. But I’m the best way. It was graphic, very graphic. The only part that really bothered me was the top trigger warning. The pacing worked really well for me and I read it in a day or two. I really enjoyed this and I think this has landed close to the top of my tops books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

kyra_joy's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

3.75

Overall I would say this was a good book, though the details are sometimes graphic they are written very well. It starts out super interesting pulling you in, unsure what is real and what is possibly the characters mind cracking. However once it gets to the end a lot of that great build up feels a bit anticlimactic, and over all disappointing.  Really like his writing but this one just wasn’t what I was expecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, and Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia and Sexual assault

erdnerd's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, and Animal cruelty

juliaaa02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

This book actually made me gag. I’ve never read anything quite as graphically unnerving. I almost didn’t finish because of the physical reaction I had to the book. I honestly am still confused about the ending. I had a hard time rating this book, since I was confused for a lot of it. I gave it a 4 due to the physical reactions I had and how genuinely scared I felt for a while after reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Torture, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

acbrummitt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Pedophilia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Self harm, and Torture

graveyardreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Pedophilia, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Rape