A review by tristnolson
The Deep by Nick Cutter

2.0

Ironically for a book titled The Deep, a lot of this felt very surface level. The plot meanders while Cutter attempts to string together a rather mean spirited backstory for our main character and by the time we start getting answers to the few interesting questions, everything is so convoluted and the gross out scares so plentiful that it all loses its bite and I don’t really care anymore. Mix that with a cast of rather unlikeable characters and I’m just left disappointed. I really loved The Troop and part of that was that the relationship dynamics of the boys feeling so realistic. I had hopes that Cutter would do something similar here by banding together a group of flawed but interesting individuals to fight off the sea-sillies, but alas no dice. The one character I did like was the dog and, spoiler alert, she dies