The thing is, the lead up to this was long and slow and, quite honestly, very dull. Even though they were long estranged, Luke didn’t have anything keeping him where he was and so he went. What actually happened was Luke voluntarily went into an underwater fortress because his scientist brother apparently asked to see him. The disease itself sounded like it would be a horrific event in and of itself, with the main character slowly forgetting things and I assumed it would eventually drive them mad. When I first started reading The Deep, I was intrigued by the virus that was spreading – the Gets – which makes people slowly forget everything: it starts with little things like what they ate the night before and gradually builds until they completely forget how to breathe and eventually die. Despite it being a horror book that was supposed to be terrifying, I found it to be rather lacklustre. I got this book ages ago, I believe it might have actually been one of the first books I was approved for on NetGalley and yet it took me months, if not an entire year before I finally finished this book. Dr Luke Nelson’s brother is down there and as desperation for a cure outweighs common sense, he agrees to descend through the lightless fathoms … perhaps to face an evil blacker than anything he could have imagined.
Nicknamed ambrosia, it might just be the miracle cure the world has been praying for.Ī research lab has been established eight miles below the sea’s surface, but all contact with the team has been lost.
And finally your body forgets how to live.īut now an unknown substance with extraordinary power to heal has been discovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
First it’s the small things, like where you left your keys … then the not-so-small things, like how to drive. Afraid of the dark? You should be … Part horror, part psychological nightmare, The Deep by Nick Cutter is a novel fans of Stephen King and Clive Barker won’t want to miss.Ī plague is destroying the world’s population.
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