The Deep (Unabridged)
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3.7 • 162 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
From the acclaimed author of The Troop—a book that is “utterly terrifying” (Clive Barker). “Fans of unflinching bleakness and all-out horror will love this novel….Each new shock is freshly disturbing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure.
But far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a universal healer hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.
Customer Reviews
Starts well... then falls flat
The Deep held a lot of promise at the beginning. Nick Cutter is masterful in his description and truly tremendous at detailing gore into words. I agree with some that there were some similarities with Event Horizon, but it is far from a rip off. And a good plot is a good plot. So I don’t have issue with that. What I did have issue with was the way the plot seemed to change course abruptly towards the end. I feel like if the Author had been able to extend and stay on the initial plot and storyline, this wouldn’t have fallen so flat for me. You’ll enjoy the first half.... then you’ll wonder why it took a wrong turn for a dead end.
Interesting start, anxious middle, flat on the face by the end
Picked up this book after reading the troop- which was a very good horror.
This book starts with a man looking for his brother while an unknown plague “the ‘gets” slowly grinds the world to a stop. Then the middle of the book is a haunted house horror similar to the thing. Which is an outstanding, but completely unrelated to the plague they’re supposed to be working on. The end is hardly related to the middle and completely separated from the start.
In conclusion: go read the troop
Started strong…..then sank.
The whole story is interrupted my essential my family guy cut always to the main characters past during vital and tense moments sucking all the tension out of the room faster than the underwater facility within the book with realistically implode. Falling into the AND THEN approach to story telling instead of therefor or because of only to just before the stroke of midnight add in resident evil monsters and ancient beings that share the same name as how the main characters young son mispronounces the word figment. For a well crafted gory story by this author I suggest The Troop.