bats' book blog

5/31/24 10:30pm

last book from the poll is The Deep by Nick Cutter!

From the acclaimed author of The Troopβ€”which Stephen King raved β€œscared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.

A strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forgetβ€”small things at first, like where they left their keys…then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as β€œambrosia” has been discoveredβ€”a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. 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…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.

back on my aquatic horror beat 🀿 tag is #bats reads the deep

5/31/24 11:15pm

very short chapters in this book so far

5/31/24 11:28pm

oh boy we're gonna get some fatphobia aren't we

5/31/24 11:51pm

so okay. i grabbed this one blind, right? which is a thing i normally do not do. for this exact reason lol.

given that i'm already not gelling with the writing style or the way this fat character is depicted so i did what i should have done in the first place and looked up content warnings and hoo boy. i'm not reading this lol. it's maybe for someone else but definitely not for me.

semi-related but like. ugh. i wanna read more capital-H Horror but it's such a goddamn chore to have to research everything ahead of time.

there's not even all that much that actually bothers me but it's apparently very hard for horror writers to not lean on sa as a crutch :/