Author: Nick Cutter
Type: Paperback
Read: 10th January - 15th January 2016
Rating: 3/5
Published: 8th October by Headline
A plague is destroying the world's population. The 'Gets makes people forget. First it's the small things, like where you left your keys ... then the not-so-small things, like how to drive. And finally your body forgets how to live.
But now an unknown substance with extraordinary power to heal has been discovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nicknamed ambrosia, it might just be the miracle cure the world has been praying for.
A research lab has been established eight miles below the sea's surface, but all contact with the team has been lost. 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.
When this book appeared on bookbridgr i didn't hesitate to request a copy. It sounded really intreguing from the go. I wanted to know more about 'the gets' and what it involved and what they were planning to do to cure it. What i got was something a little mixed.
The book is dark, its very messed up. Seriously you have to have one crazy imagination to think of half of the twisted things that go on in this book. But i did enjoy reading it. It was additive. We meet Luke who has been sent from Iowa to the bottom of the ocean. He's brother is working eight miles below to try and find a cure for the gets. Being at such a distance below the surface, with nothing but darkness surounding them, it messes with the occupants minds. Although most if not all are in total denial of such thing. They're all hiding it in their own crazy ways.
I loved the idea of this book. I don't think i've read anything thats been based under the sea. It's distrubing. It does give you the heebyjeebies of the dark. It messes with your mind too. Thats brilliant. But perhaps i drifted off from this as I wanted to find out much more of Lukes little boy who was taken years before. I want him and Alice to escape and get back to the surface. I wanted Luke and Clayton to make up. They did i guess, but I want them to get out together.
What disappointed me was the ending. And it's whats made me so confused about this book. I have no idea what i read. The ending threw everything out of the water for me. Did it fit? I'm not sure. I guess madness took over the situation and perhaps the ending was fitting. I am still so torn what it really meant. We also never actually find out much more about 'the gets' which this was the basis for the book.
Overall it was good. Its freakishly scary and dark.
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