The Deep

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tldr version: the book tries to hold too many cards in its hands, fumbles them while trying to play them, sends them flying all over the place. He switches gears from the apocalypse into gothic horror, with the claustrophobia of the Challenger Deep. Tim crudely sets up an operating station, disinfecting poor medical equipment with whiskey, before taking a swig himself. This is very low rate, a messy mashup of Micheal Crichton's Sphere, Stephen King's It, myriad Outbreak movies, as well as any other given horror motif promoting character development. Especially in the parts of it where the element at hand –that which is alleged to save mankind- seems to have acquired control beyond the physical laws of nature that we Earthlings take for granted.And while this story is going to remind you of a lot of other things, it is still going to shock you and lay you down and have its way with you. But now the station is incommunicado, and it's up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths. Nick Cutter's Little Heaven is a sprawling epic that can stand alongside the best of 80's King, Barker, and McCammon. The next day, Tim sends the boys off on a hike so that he can sort out a solution, remarking that he is starting to feel hungry.

Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: Played for drama and eventual horror with Luke's parents, after his mother grows fat following her medical retirement; it's implied the father fetishizes her weight, while she likely keeps him for his slim build (she's attracted to teenage boys, including her own son Clayton). In 2006, Nick Cutter was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, thanks to his short story collection titled Rust and Bone; the said collection was a finalist. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered -- a universal healer, from initial reports.It has a small cast of characters, but colors them all in ways that feel authentic enough to make me a bit emo whenever they might have classic ailments, like feel lonely, get the bends, or follow a mysterious portal to some equally mysterious nightmare. Instead, Luke merges with the monstrous version of his son given to him by the Fig Men, becomes even more monstrous himself, then goes back up to the surface meaning . I'm all for cosmic horror, where humans can't fathom the ancient ones' reasoning, but this just feels like Cutter wrote himself into a corner, and went for the laziest option. Hence me trying to find horror books that play with that fear - we tend to be drawn to that which frightens us.

Parental Incest: Clayton's mother controlled him by rewarding him sexually for doing her dirty work. Over the course of the book, it is revealed that a scientist of incredible skill but little restraint (Dr. more I suppose there could be, Greg, and a few other people have raised that possibility, but at the moment there's no sequel in the works.With unfortunate timing, Tim displays that he himself has become infected with whatever the stranger had.