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A review by _chelseachelsea
The Deep by Nick Cutter
4.0
Nick Cutter has a mind for crafting horror that I have not found in a long, long time. His writing is as graphic as Lovecraft's, bold as King's, and darkly humorous as Palahniuk's. He has quickly stolen this monster-lover's heart and I am devouring his books as rapidly as I can.
First of all, this book is intensely unnerving. I am terrified of the ocean and severely claustrophobic, and the detailed descriptions of life at the bottom of the ocean floor are as beautiful as they are creepy. As the proverbial crap hits the fan, you begin to feel the threat pressing in around you just like the characters.
The mark of Cutter's talent as a writer is the way he offers brief moments of relief from the relentless tension - even though these moments become progressively darker and sickening as the novel goes on. Slowly but surely, he rips away the reader's sense of security, and replaces it with grotesque imagery and helplessness.
This book does not have a happy ending. If you read a Nick Cutter novel, anticipate a dreadful foray into a very bleak world and graphic descriptions of its happenings. You will be disturbed, you will be sickened, and you will be scared.
First of all, this book is intensely unnerving. I am terrified of the ocean and severely claustrophobic, and the detailed descriptions of life at the bottom of the ocean floor are as beautiful as they are creepy. As the proverbial crap hits the fan, you begin to feel the threat pressing in around you just like the characters.
The mark of Cutter's talent as a writer is the way he offers brief moments of relief from the relentless tension - even though these moments become progressively darker and sickening as the novel goes on. Slowly but surely, he rips away the reader's sense of security, and replaces it with grotesque imagery and helplessness.
This book does not have a happy ending. If you read a Nick Cutter novel, anticipate a dreadful foray into a very bleak world and graphic descriptions of its happenings. You will be disturbed, you will be sickened, and you will be scared.