Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

146 reviews

atalea's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Eating disorder, Violence, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, and Body horror

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Bullying, Fatphobia, Excrement, Gaslighting, Torture, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

_stephk10's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

2.5

Terrible writing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Gore, Blood, Death, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, and Torture

caspian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

nick cutter knows how to write the most nauseating, horrifying concepts you've ever seen in your goddamn life and then has the audacity to involve five 14yo boys. and i eat it up every time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Torture

Moderate: Homophobia

bex_702's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book is a truely dark ride. You know from page one the atmosphere is heavy and tense. Scenes in this book will live rent free in your brain long after you close it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Torture

athompson0429's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Super gross, but I loved it! Very well done, and the descriptions are incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Murder, Mental illness, Animal death, Child death, Torture, Bullying, and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, Medical content, and Child abuse

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Cutter's descriptions are both vile and illuminating. Body horror with a spotlight on it to highlight every squirming maggot and fleshy lesion. The man does it so right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Body horror, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Eating disorder, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abandonment and Vomit

Minor: Bullying

gammsel's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Torture, and Gore

pholcidae's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Written in a horrific but beautiful prose. The use of language keeps your brain working overdrive to figure out what’s happening. I didn’t put this book down once I’d started it!

Due to personal preference, the book didn’t scare me. It’s certainly gross, awfully descriptive, and tense, but I fear the Big Bad is introduced too soon which dampened any sense of terror I may have felt. Otherwise a book I would recommend any fans of horror in general should read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content

ohhveronica's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Body horror

hailssb's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

wow. this is the first horror book that made me cringe several times, that made me put it down and need a palate cleanser. the writing was so intricate and i felt like i was there. it was so descriptive and gross. but wow was it captivating as hell

tw: a few animal cruelty scenes & body horror

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Torture