A review by shetland_pone
The Deep by Nick Cutter

challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was really good and terrifying until somewhere close to the end where it crossed the line into so absurd it's literally hilarious. Like I don't even know what to say. At some point, maybe around 75%, I've honestly forgotten, it just started to go off the rails.

Spoiler
  • Clayton's hand falling off like a lizard's tail and groping Luke.
  • That moment when the scientist guy described his raging boner and mentioned how even his kinky ex couldn't make him that hard.
  • The hand then sprouting another 7 hands and then spider scuttling over to a keypad and opening a door.
  • Pretty much everything involving the bees.
  • Clayton having an Einstein poster to cover up the hole.
  • Luke dragging Clayton's unconscious body through a tunnel while being chased by a giant maggot with the heads of his mother, ex-wife, and missing son.
  • Toy basically being flattened by the research station and 8 miles worth of water, except slowly.
  • The two dogs being fused together and sucked through a supernatural sparkly goo hole while Luke cried his eyes out.

I literally just laughed at these moments.
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