A review by literaryliaisons
The Deep by Nick Cutter

Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.
So many reasons I DNFed but primarily:
  1. Absolutely no buildup of suspense. The protagonist goes mad in the first 30 seconds and the thought of 388 pages of his addle-brained whining made me want to hurl my kindle into the sea
  2. The only woman in the story is a plot device and nothing more. Cutter completely deletes her from the narrative until it suits him to remind us that she exists. Remarkable that Cutter can lose track of one of FOUR characters on an undersea base in the Mariana fucking Trench.
  3. Literally do not give a rat’s ass about 80% of the flashbacks, which make up about half of the entire book. So unnecessary. 
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