Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

36 reviews

rosemarygrace1211's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

When they finally acted, it was too late - had it ever not been too late? 

To say I didn’t know what I was getting myself into would be an understatement. And yet at the end, through all the gore, the pain, the quasi-panic attack I had about 3/4 of the way through the book, I was glad I read this. 

That being said, please check the content warnings. And if you have any kind of contamination phobia like I do, meaning bodily fluids and parasites, please don’t read this. I likely wouldn’t have picked this book up if I had known what lurked beneath the cover. And if you read the word “kitten,” skip ahead a few pages. I did and I couldn’t be more glad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Murder, and Gore

clunttoo's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Murder, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Eating disorder, Blood, Sexual content, and Vomit

mostlyliterate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

so so good!! this is going to be one of my go to horror recs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, Confinement, Medical content, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Cannibalism, Cursing, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, and Toxic friendship

thegr8estangell's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Gross. That's one word to describe this book. Gross. I thought the story was good. The plot of the book progressed pretty quickly and was really intense at some points. Being in Boy Scouts at that age made this book much more scary than it needed to be. There were ALOT of random tangents in this book that took you out of the plot. They were little stories that gave a look into the boy's lives outside of the island but they really didn't expand on the story for me. I skimmed a few of those because I just didn't care. I thought Shelley was a bit much as a character. This book was good, gross, and grotesque. I'm going to go take a shower now... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

olenam312's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

It was kind of a drag to get through this book, which is unfortunate bc this had a lot of horror tropes I personally enjoy. However, I found the ending to be pretty well done and probably the only reason I didn’t give this book a lower score.

My opinion of this book really went downhill once it was revealed that Shelley was a huge creep via details I wish I didn’t have to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Cannibalism, and Homophobia

bullfrog's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

After a long drought of reading, this was my first dive back in. I was able to read this in about a week and half. This book is definitely not for the faint of heart. Ot explored themes of survival, sickness, derangement and death. That being said author Nick Cutter did a good job without depressing the reader to the point where you would want to put the book down. The story maintains a glimmer of hope that leads to a minute amount of satisfaction. This was a gruesome story but I enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, and Animal cruelty