A review by mexcryptid
The Deep by Nick Cutter

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

Terrifying and oppressive. The Deep scratches so specifically an itch for unsettling isolation horror. The body horror of The Thing meets the scientific mystery of Sphere. While I didn't always appreciate the author's crude choices for thematic imagery (
for example, fixating on the mother's obesity to accentuate the reach of her harm
) I found myself engulfed by the book's steady march of ever intensifying nightmares and, in the name of science, its "progress" towards its final, inevitable conclusion.
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