The Deep

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Davidson isn't done borrowing from other material, some of it beneath a writer of his talent. The setting has what could be called "Camp Crystal Lake Echo", where a character finds themselves alone in a remote setting and feels the urge to call out to a friend, thereby alerting the killer exactly where they are. I lost count how many times Luke called out, and this is a character who's seen horror movies like Alien. That annoyed me. A strange plague called the ’Gets is bringing about a slow-apocalypse, in the form of a disease in which people start to forget. A kind of accelerated Alzheimer's that eventually leaves the host brain-dead. The only hope lies deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the Mariana Trench. A new substance has been discovered called "Ambrosia" that could be a cure for the disease.

Wouldn’t you know it? An alleged cure has been discovered. Thing is, it can only be harvested from the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Eight miles beneath the ocean? Not an easy commute. A station is set up thereabouts, for an elite team of scientists to explore a life-saving membrane that seems, shall we say, cryptic. You know, I think I’m going to take Casey and Nicole’s advice (added to yours) and pass on this one. I kept wanting to read this because the hardcover art is so pretty, but after this review and their warnings, I think it’s going to be a hard pass. I’ll be curious how you respond to Cutter’s other work, though, see if anything else catches my interest (besides cover art).

A plague is destroying the world's population. The 'Gets makes people forget. First it's the small things, like where you left your keys ... then the not-so-small things, like how to drive. And finally your body forgets how to live. but something in this book was always doing something weird to my thoughts, when i went deeper, i only concerned with LB, that petite chocolate lab And oh boy, a creepy good start introduces us to an atmosphere of unbearable heat, a crawling jungle and a man infected with the 'Gets disease..."a plague decimating humanity on a global scale." Clayton's hand after he touches an extradimensional rift with it. His fingers grow long and segmented, the skin hardens into crab-like armor... and then the hand detaches and goes scuttling off on its own.

There was not one redeeming quality about him and if I were his brother, I would never have even bothered going to the Trieste in the first place.A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—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. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure.

Mad Scientist: Clayton is one, in a very pure sense; he's so detached from humanity that his mind has no philosophical limits (and also no conscience about experimenting). The Deep reminded me of movies like Saw because I feel like there is a tipping point when something becomes torture porn, not horror. In my opinion, The Troop was not as bad as The Deep in terms of gruesomeness, but Cutter really seems to always include insect infestation and animal torture, two things that I really don’t want to read about. Scientists are at the bottom of the ocean looking for a cure to a disease called the 'Gets (short for Forgets). Don't worry about knowing anymore since the Gets since it doesn't really matter and is never explained. The scientists are looking for a miracle substance called Ambrosia that can cure pretty much anything except boredom for the reader. What is Ambrosia exactly? Where does it come from? Don't ask because you won't find out except some vague allusions toward the end. In The Troop, Cutter managed to get us invested in the fate of the boys trapped on that island. They were kind, smart, scrappy, selfish, brave and even evil in one case. When horrible things happened to them, we cared and felt terrible for them. In that way, The Troop was very Stephen King-like for me.thank you to those who wrote that LB dies. Knowing this before I read the book saved me some pain and I could shuffle a little past that part in the book when I knew it was coming. The animal parts were a little tougher to digest but I think their inclusion was good. It made everything feel so much more... Uncomfortable. Which is, I believe, a big part of the horror in the book Enter his brother, veterinarian and all-around Nice Guy Luke Nelson. Luke is recruited to go down to Clayton's lab, the Trieste, and persuade him to return with his research. Accompanied by tough, kindhearted Navy sub pilot Alice "Al" Skyes, Luke descends into a cold, sunless world under the water... and it isn't long before he discovers that the horrors of the 'Gets are nothing compared to what lies waiting in the deep.