The Deep

394 pages

English language

Published 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4767-1773-9
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OCLC Number:
873006392

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"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. 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 "ambrosia" has been discovered--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..."--

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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.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Manned undersea research stations
  • Ocean bottom
  • Research