an example, (and I don't think this qualifies as a spoiler), but millipedes. We get a sneak peek of the world slowly being consumed by the 'Gets, which was terrifying in itself, but we also got to go eight miles under the sea to cramped labs and living quarters.Īs for the scare factor. The world-building aspect of this novel was on par for me. I was sucked into the mind of the narrator and his worst nightmares (some of which were real turned out to be real) come to life and just scare the hell out of you. I couldn't tell if things were real or not, and if/when I did. This book reminded me of the movie Sphere with Dustin Hoffman, except this book actually was terrifying. 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. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. It may just be the key to a universal cure. 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.

Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. 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. From the acclaimed author of The Troop-which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it d own.…old-school horror at its best”-comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.Ī strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale.

Nick cutter the deep review