Review by jumiofdiamonds - The Deep

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The Deep by Nick Cutter

4.25

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Great psychological horror. Had me on the edge of my seat. Gut wrenching at times. Cutter's work so far has a reoccurrin theme of hopelessness that I absolutely love to devour. It's so well written, the prose is phenomenal. The only reason it's not a 5 star is because the ending left me feeling a bit eh. It was lack luster in comparison to the build up. It also felt, different? Like the vibe wasn't the same. Very similar to the end of the Silent Hill movie, "Let me explain it to you (the audience) dummy."

Spoilers below,

I don't mind the lovecraftian vibe, I just wish it would've been more present. That beyond the Ambrosia there were these entities. And in a way more than just childhood fears. Idk. I hate that it was only in the last two to five minutes of the book. I read 370 pages of Ambrosia is this spooky unknown creature humans have discovered, see the true damage (physically and mentally) it would ultimately cause, only to have it all undone by these two ancient creatures that reveal too much yet not enough all in the last five minutes. There is no more. I wish we would've found them halfway through or something. It just felt like we jumped to a different movie, if that makes sense?

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