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The Deep by Nick Cutter
4.5
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

a good reads 5 but rly a 4.5 rounded up 


reading the book from start to literally the last 30 pages, i was so enamored with this world. i love cutter’s writing, his sounds, his descriptions - “a slick and gooey sound like a Vaseline-smeared ball of yarn squished in a fist” - literally you cannot ask for a more sensory experience while reading. the smell descriptors, the violence, the gore, the body horror. i literally loved this so so so much all the way up until the VERY END. the second half of part 5 and all of part6 were honestly such letdowns for me -the lost wandering & divide of real/imagined over and over again was too much for me, it just stretched on past the point of fun & was repetitive. the conclusion was unsatisfying but the build up of every other piece of this novel was miraculous.