paperback, 416 pages
Published Aug. 16, 2016 by Gallery Books.
Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Best Horror (2015) From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.
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 …
Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Best Horror (2015) From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.
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…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.
A disturbing trip both to the depths of the ocean and the depths of the human mind. What happens when grief gets into you and the world forgets how to make sense? What does all this lead?... Nowhere good.
If you're in the mood for a haunted house at the bottom of the sea, Event Horizon-y type horror mystery; this is the right kind of medicine for you.
Nihilistic body horror.
Little bee...!
This is my first Nick Cutter book, and definitely not my last. This is one of the few new authors I made the leap and paid for a book, instead of my usual kindle unlimited. And I absolutely loved it (think Sphere, but better). There were a few spots at the end that I think could have made a better ending point, but I still enjoyed it. Scary, visceral, innate uncanny horrors, these are all words that come to mind. I don't know why this book has a 3* rating, I thought it was written impeccably and my only complaint would be that slightly wonky ending.
And it made me cry. Actually, literally, tears! It can't be easy to describe something that is supposed to scare and disturb using only words, but Cutter nailed it. The characters had enough depth to be fully "fleshed out" and make you …
Little bee...!
This is my first Nick Cutter book, and definitely not my last. This is one of the few new authors I made the leap and paid for a book, instead of my usual kindle unlimited. And I absolutely loved it (think Sphere, but better). There were a few spots at the end that I think could have made a better ending point, but I still enjoyed it. Scary, visceral, innate uncanny horrors, these are all words that come to mind. I don't know why this book has a 3* rating, I thought it was written impeccably and my only complaint would be that slightly wonky ending.
And it made me cry. Actually, literally, tears! It can't be easy to describe something that is supposed to scare and disturb using only words, but Cutter nailed it. The characters had enough depth to be fully "fleshed out" and make you actually care about them. That isn't always a given in horror novels, and I appreciated the time Cutter took to let us get to know the characters a bit before he wrote them into a dangerous scenario.
