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challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Haunting portrayed through a lost son, a dead mother, a sociopathic genius brother, and a vaguely Lovecraftian horror. Grief is not a linear thing; it is a cycle, and one that protagonist Luke Nelson is uncomfortably familiar with. Though there is the issue of the 'Gets not being properly explained or touched on besides its appearance in the earlier chapters prior to Luke's descent into the Mariana Trench, I choose to interpret the story's many plot holes as an effect of the claustrophobic dread that Nick Cutter paints for us. Deep down the surface of the Pacific Ocean and in the prison of the Trieste, "The Deep" becomes less of a Lovecraftian horror and more of a psychological descent into everything-went-wrong-gets-even-worse. It's miserable, and I've never been haunted by a story of two brothers more.