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A review by maitland
The Deep by Nick Cutter
1.0
I could not stand this book. I like Nick Cutter's other book "The Troop", but this book I hated. There are already several good reviews on goodreads that voice the exact same problems I had with this book so I'll try make this short.
1. Most of the book seemed to be boring flashbacks that I didn't care about and actually got so tedious to read through I stopped reading at several points.
2. I don't know if I should put bad character development or no character development. I guess there was an attempt to do some with the main character but other than that... yeah not much. No reason to care about anyone in this story.
3. Nothing is explained. If you like that sort of thing cool. Good for you, and I hope you enjoyed the book. Just because I didn't doesn't mean that I hope other people don't. I do not like having pretty much no explanation to things. Especially after several hundred pages that turned into a chore rather than a fun experience.
I wrote quite a bit more but I wanted this review to be quick and everything else kept circling back to the book constantly getting interrupted by those damn flashbacks anyways I deleted the rest. Those damn, never ending, tedious flashbacks.
Why did I bother finishing the book if I disliked it this much? Well like I said earlier I enjoyed Nick Cutter's "The Troop" and I kept hoping that there was about to be some kinda turn around in this book that made it more enjoyable. But in the end the scariest thing about this book for me was every night when I realized there was still more to read.
1. Most of the book seemed to be boring flashbacks that I didn't care about and actually got so tedious to read through I stopped reading at several points.
2. I don't know if I should put bad character development or no character development. I guess there was an attempt to do some with the main character but other than that... yeah not much. No reason to care about anyone in this story.
3. Nothing is explained. If you like that sort of thing cool. Good for you, and I hope you enjoyed the book. Just because I didn't doesn't mean that I hope other people don't. I do not like having pretty much no explanation to things. Especially after several hundred pages that turned into a chore rather than a fun experience.
I wrote quite a bit more but I wanted this review to be quick and everything else kept circling back to the book constantly getting interrupted by those damn flashbacks anyways I deleted the rest. Those damn, never ending, tedious flashbacks.
Why did I bother finishing the book if I disliked it this much? Well like I said earlier I enjoyed Nick Cutter's "The Troop" and I kept hoping that there was about to be some kinda turn around in this book that made it more enjoyable. But in the end the scariest thing about this book for me was every night when I realized there was still more to read.