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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
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
This is the first book that I read from this author and I loved it. Just picked up The Deep and I'm excited to read it.
The Troop kept me anxious the whole book and it's been a awhile since a book was able to pull a physical reaction from me. If you are in to borrow then this book is a must
The Troop kept me anxious the whole book and it's been a awhile since a book was able to pull a physical reaction from me. If you are in to borrow then this book is a must
probably should have prepared myself for the sheer amount of animal death/cruelty in this book. definitely creepy, and left a bad taste in my mouth.
Spoilers ahead, be warned
I find that this book was really well written. I'm not the biggest fan of parasitic horror, but this flowed smoothly and vividly. The reason I gave it three stars out of five was for two separate reasons that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Animal abuse is very prevalent in this book. The author pulls no stops in going as far as possible in explaining each and every action in a lot of detail. This does get very disturbing, though I can see the necessity to portray just how demented Shelly is. However, I found this took away some of the horror in a strange way. I found myself feeling simply disgusted by it all, but not really scared. There were some tense moments and cool imagery, but I feel like a lot of it was more splatter punk than horror.
The other thing that bugs me is Newtons death. The act of getting the spark plugs and then just leaving them out to dry feels like it was forced. The reader knew that only one would live from the different exerts detailing what happened on the island, but I thought it would happen in a more believable way. The fact that they left them to dry on the rock, resulting in them being taken and forced to find them from Shelley, felt tacked on, like the author didn't have any other excuse to make the scene happen. I guess you can say that they were careless or stressed, but for me, it just stuck out immediately and felt like a jagged, unnatural angle in such a smoothly written book. I feel like it could have been better done. Either that, or it was the authors intent to have Newton die over a small mistake.
These are just my opinions, I know others will differ. I did enjoy reading the book, and it had great visuals. I'm not a fan of some portions, but overall, it was well done and smooth for the most part.
I find that this book was really well written. I'm not the biggest fan of parasitic horror, but this flowed smoothly and vividly. The reason I gave it three stars out of five was for two separate reasons that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Animal abuse is very prevalent in this book. The author pulls no stops in going as far as possible in explaining each and every action in a lot of detail. This does get very disturbing, though I can see the necessity to portray just how demented Shelly is. However, I found this took away some of the horror in a strange way. I found myself feeling simply disgusted by it all, but not really scared. There were some tense moments and cool imagery, but I feel like a lot of it was more splatter punk than horror.
The other thing that bugs me is Newtons death. The act of getting the spark plugs and then just leaving them out to dry feels like it was forced. The reader knew that only one would live from the different exerts detailing what happened on the island, but I thought it would happen in a more believable way. The fact that they left them to dry on the rock, resulting in them being taken and forced to find them from Shelley, felt tacked on, like the author didn't have any other excuse to make the scene happen. I guess you can say that they were careless or stressed, but for me, it just stuck out immediately and felt like a jagged, unnatural angle in such a smoothly written book. I feel like it could have been better done. Either that, or it was the authors intent to have Newton die over a small mistake.
These are just my opinions, I know others will differ. I did enjoy reading the book, and it had great visuals. I'm not a fan of some portions, but overall, it was well done and smooth for the most part.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes