The Deep

by Nick Cutter

[Lianne]

I received an ARC from the publishers in exchange for an honest review. This review in its entirety was originally posted at caffeinatedlife.net: http://www.caffeinatedlife.net/blog/2014/11/18/review-the-deep/

The Deep really grabs the reader from the beginning. The ‘Gets is a really creepy condition...and that’s just the beginning for this novel…The further you go in the story, the stranger the novel gets. I thought it was very interesting and compelling how the author uses the character’s memories and weaves it into the more tense moments in the story, adding to the psychological elements of the horror. The setting also provides a claustrophobic feeling to the story, which again adds to the creeping horror and suspense.

Luke Nelson is an interesting character, and is simply the perfect character to follow as we step into this strange story. He’s immediately likeable, relatable, and it’s clear from the first few chapters that he is a character with a lot of emotional baggage and history on him. The situation around him, down in Trieste, aggravates his guilt and his regrets, pushing them to the max, that it’s just maddening. Other characters were also interesting and added to story and the situation unravelling.

I admit, the final third of the novel was a bit of a jump; the revelation of what was really going on/what those things that Clay and his team were examining seemed a little too out there, but in the context of the story and everything that had been laid out earlier in the novel, it made sense. So maybe it might’ve just been whatever mood I was in when I finished reading the novel.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading The Deep, it was quite a difficult book to put down after a while!