bryangball 's review for:

The Deep by Nick Cutter

3.0

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This is an extremely solid piece of horror. Though I read “The Saturday Night Ghost Club” last year, this was my first Nick Cutter book, and while it wasn’t what I was expecting, I was not disappointed. There is so much horror done so right in here, that it makes up for some parts I didn’t love. This book manages to be about a novel pandemic, and the unknown horrors that exist in the un-explorable depths of the ocean. While there is much that is genuinely unnerving about the ocean in here, the most disturbingly creepy part of this was told in a flashback where our main character is playing with his child in a park. That bit has stayed with me, and successfully disturbed this jaded horror fan. I don’t always love reviewers that compare books to other books, but to say this has shades of the isolated, mysterious horror that books like “The Shining” and films like “The Thing,” is as true as it is impressive.