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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Signed up for unlawful medical experiments making a contagious disease. Did not sign up for constant remarks about weight/fatphobia and sexualization of food.
I had to know what happened after each chapter. The author has a good pull on the reader throughout. I couldn’t read this while eating, it’s impossible. The subject of fear in this book is something I am extremely terrified of myself so this was the perfect horror story for me as a scientist and a person who enjoys the outdoors. Awesome
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death
Another good book by Cutter. He captures the very best of Stephen King and puts it into a good length and fascinating story. My only complaint is the over abundance of psychopath kids here. One is passable for plot reasons, there’s always one - but two is a lot. I like the idea of a super lab engineered parasitic worm, the only hang up is that something like that wouldn’t really last I think because it kills it’s host so fast which then kills itself - I don’t think something that evolved that way would last.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The body horror elements were just over the top at times but at the point in the book where I realized this is a body horror disease book and not a kind of monster book I was already over halfway through and just finished it. The kids except for a couple are uniquely awful in their own unique ways. The writing for the steryotypical future serial killer kid was a bit much, especially with the several page description of him killing a kitten that I completely skipped over and avoided. Overall it's another book that tries to horify with shock value and extreme detail rather than creating unease through mystery and subtlety. Overall less of a page turner and more of a stomach turner.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It came down to that flexibility of a person’s mind. An ability to withstand horrors and snap back, like a fresh elastic band. A flinty mind shattered. In this way, he was glad not to be an adult. A grown-up’s mind…lacked that elasticity. The world had been robbed of all its mysteries, and with those mysteries went the horror.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected to. Everything I hear prior to listening to this lead me to believe that it was a gore fest with no plot and just trauma for trauma sake, but that’s just not the case at all. Instead, Cutter delivers a story centered around greed in the pursuit of greatness which, then in turn loops in a whole lot of trauma, body horror, gruesomeness, politics, and plot that makes sense in both a horror trope and scientific way. Each character had their own personality and were truly distinct in their own ways (except
Overall I enjoyed this a lot and will be looking into other books by Cutter.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying
this is just not the type of book for me
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated