Jessica reviewed The Deep by Nick Cutter
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2 stars
The real monster is adding pedophilia to an otherwise fine book for no apparent reason but shock value. This book went from 4 stars to 3, then to 2 with that. This book also suffers from "explaining the Monster", which really destroys the actual horror element.
Also, the author doesn't seem to know the difference between CO and CO2, full and new moons, or centipedes and millipedes. It seems petty to dock a star for that, but it's jarring to have things that should be well known (a new moon is dark, you can't look up and see the light of the new moon) screwed up, and it made the other discrepancies more irritating.
There was foreshadowing that kinda sorta panned out subtly, which was nice, but ultimately I didn't like this book much after the first 3/4s.