Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Deep by Nick Cutter

258 reviews

rikathestrange's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I have never gagged while reading a book before this. Insane imagery, disgusting, eerie, and scary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, and Blood

jenlengland's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

morgansturgess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, and Rape

philodora's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

cvab's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Heavy on the body horror in the best way ever, and I would highly recommend this novel if that's your bread and butter. Exceptionally written. The descriptions here were masterful and the flashbacks felt like viewing the characters' trauma through a thick marmalade. I personally prefer a bit more of a psychological thriller--that is to say, tons of twists and a more comprehensible horror that makes me afraid to sleep without a night light--but this one is very Lovecraft-esque and blanketed in an otherworldly, primal fear that will haunt me in a much different sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Excrement, and Grief

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Even the darkest themes add to the suspense and horror here.

bananavana's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Murder

midnightcomets's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I truly love reading fucked up horror books. This would have been even better if there weren't random "written by a man" comments and casual fatphobia, as well as if the plague aspect was explored a bit more, but it still creeped me out multiple times and I found the way the plot twisted and progressed very cleverly built. I predicted a few things but some others came as a total surprise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Bullying, Sexual content, and Suicide

leashleash's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Reading this book felt like you were on the Trieste, however the ending was beautiful. You may need a therapy session after finishing this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

my_ducks_read_books's review against another edition

DNFed at 42%. 
My husband and I were listening to the audiobook on a roadtrip and it kept us awake for about for a good amount of time. 

The good: The author is very good at making you feel grossed out or horrified with the main character as situations happen or are revealed in a flashback or dream. Pretty immersive in that regard. 

The bad: The book really drags on and on. At one point I dosed off and then asked my husband what I missed and he said “not much, just more weird animal cruelty”. Which was another thing that I didn’t care for, so much animal cruelty.
Then a Labrador retriever is introduced as a character I looked up whether the dog dies and the general consensus on what happens to the dog is described as “overly horrific”. That sealed the deal for me and I did not finish the book. Personally I think when any author kills off the dog it’s just a cheap shot at people’s emotions. Lazy writing imo. But that’s just me, maybe other people will still enjoy the book :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse