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The Deep by Nick Cutter
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Listened to the audiobook
Trigger warnings: The dog dies, fatphobia, global pandemic, child abduction, claustrophobia, vomiting, incest, child sexual assault, pus, infection
Well before COVID, the 'Gets is decimating mankind and the cure lies at the bottom of the ocean. A man, Luke, with not much to lose, goes to the depths of the Marianas Trench to excavate ambrosia, a miracle cure with several unpredictable side effects. Claustrophobic and intense in its fears, this book worked until the very last part.
This book is violently fatphobic, and it reaches its peak at the finale. It's revealed in flashbacks that Luke's mother is an abusive, incestuous ghoul, but the way the narrative fixates on her figure and her flesh is gratuitous and heavily focuses on her fatness way more than her other villainous qualities. Even when she's getting poisoned, the text goes out of its way to let you know that she loses hundreds of pounds in a wretched voyeurism akin to a TLC program.
The ending also was a dud for me. It wrapped everything up too neatly and simply didn't work. This is the last Nick Cutter book I'm going to read. The Troop was great, and, for me, it's only been downhill since.
Trigger warnings: The dog dies, fatphobia, global pandemic, child abduction, claustrophobia, vomiting, incest, child sexual assault, pus, infection
Well before COVID, the 'Gets is decimating mankind and the cure lies at the bottom of the ocean. A man, Luke, with not much to lose, goes to the depths of the Marianas Trench to excavate ambrosia, a miracle cure with several unpredictable side effects. Claustrophobic and intense in its fears, this book worked until the very last part.
This book is violently fatphobic, and it reaches its peak at the finale. It's revealed in flashbacks that Luke's mother is an abusive, incestuous ghoul, but the way the narrative fixates on her figure and her flesh is gratuitous and heavily focuses on her fatness way more than her other villainous qualities. Even when she's getting poisoned, the text goes out of its way to let you know that she loses hundreds of pounds in a wretched voyeurism akin to a TLC program.
The ending also was a dud for me. It wrapped everything up too neatly and simply didn't work. This is the last Nick Cutter book I'm going to read. The Troop was great, and, for me, it's only been downhill since.