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valgalsreading 's review for:
The Deep
by Nick Cutter
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
The Deep is my first real venture into reading horror. It truly did unsettle me, at times I felt a bit claustrophobic, like I was crammed in tubes at the bottom of the ocean. However, there were multiple points that took me out of the immersion.
There are quite a bit of moments where the descriptions lean sexually. There’s a moment in the first quarter of the book where a pair of satellite dishes are described as “concave breasts” that made me stop and just go ??? There are tense moments where some things are described as being “almost sexual”, but the characters are supposed to be in immediate danger. Personally, it took me out of the experience here and there.
I liked the characters well enough, though I will say that the dog, LB, is the character I had the most sympathy for. The humans, though? I didn’t feel much connection to them.
The ending is where I was really lost. While it does tie up a lot of things, connects a lot of dots, I really wasn’t expecting the turn the book took. I’m not sure how I expected it to end overall, but it certainly wasn’t that. It left me more confused than anything. There are a lot of moments where Luke comes to, or wakes up, that it sort of lost me between where reality for Luke begins and ends, which I suppose is why I didn’t take the ending very seriously.
For me, the book started off very strong. It took me almost a month to get through. Opening and reading, no issue, I flew right through it. But putting it down and sitting with what I had read? Thinking about what had happened to the characters, not knowing what could happen to them, thinking about just how far underwater they were and how dark and eerie the station was, that’s what had me putting off picking it up again.
I liked it, but I really was not about that ending.
There are quite a bit of moments where the descriptions lean sexually. There’s a moment in the first quarter of the book where a pair of satellite dishes are described as “concave breasts” that made me stop and just go ??? There are tense moments where some things are described as being “almost sexual”, but the characters are supposed to be in immediate danger. Personally, it took me out of the experience here and there.
I liked the characters well enough, though I will say that the dog, LB, is the character I had the most sympathy for. The humans, though? I didn’t feel much connection to them.
The ending is where I was really lost. While it does tie up a lot of things, connects a lot of dots, I really wasn’t expecting the turn the book took. I’m not sure how I expected it to end overall, but it certainly wasn’t that. It left me more confused than anything. There are a lot of moments where Luke comes to, or wakes up, that it sort of lost me between where reality for Luke begins and ends, which I suppose is why I didn’t take the ending very seriously.
For me, the book started off very strong. It took me almost a month to get through. Opening and reading, no issue, I flew right through it. But putting it down and sitting with what I had read? Thinking about what had happened to the characters, not knowing what could happen to them, thinking about just how far underwater they were and how dark and eerie the station was, that’s what had me putting off picking it up again.
I liked it, but I really was not about that ending.