Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

110 reviews

withsquared's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Vomit, Murder, Body shaming, Child death, Body horror, Torture, Death, Violence, Gore, Terminal illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Confinement, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Misogyny and Homophobia

rebekahmccubbins's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

A truly disgusting read. I would have finished this sooner, but I kept getting itchy reading it. Fantastically written, but a tough read if

you're bothered by parasites/bugs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Bullying, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, War, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Misogyny, Cursing, Fatphobia, Sexism, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

pavonini's review against another edition

Wasn’t what I wanted. I was expecting horror, not detailed descriptions of sadism (from the sociopath’s point of view). Turned my stomach.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Body horror, Torture, Animal death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying

chicaso's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Animal death, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Violence, Confinement, Death, and Excrement

duke_elligos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

It was a bit difficult for me to get into the story at first, I'm not sure I entirely like how Nick Cutter writes. I don't love how much animal harm is in the book. I almost DNF it, but I kept reading and I ended up hooked by the tense atmosphere and the character interactions. I really started to care about (most of) the characters and found that I needed to keep reading.
It's a messed up story, but that's exactly what I signed up for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Gore, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Medical content

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Violence, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Bullying, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Medical content

Minor: Cursing

swformentano's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Medical content, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

felyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.0

This book fucked me up. I kept having to take breaks.

There's no on-page villain per se. There's a scientist who's not on page. One of the characters is a young serial-killer-in-training but he's not the antagonist. (He's *an* antagonist, sure, but not *the* antagonist.)

But you can't villainize an insentient parasite.

So you're reading this book about a group of 14-year-old boys from PEI, stranded on a small island for what's supposed to be an ordinary Scouting trip, and the only adult with them is quickly neutralised... and it's horrifying in part because of the descriptions of what the infected characters think and do, but also watch as the entire cast loses their grasp on reality. Wondering who's going to die next and how, because it's not just one thing that can kill you, it's exposure, it's starvation or dehydration, it's the parasite, it's the other humans, it's getting injured, it's falling off a cliff... And you as the reader is still there watching all this, wondering who is going to die next and who, if anyone, survives.

You get snippets of what the people on the mainland (er, back on the main island? back on PEI.) are doing and going through, but they are footnotes against the body of the main story.

Plus there's a lot of gross descriptive text in general that I am just not here for, but I'm sure others wouldn't have any issues with. You'd think that having aphantasia, this wouldn't bother me so much BUT NO.

Anyway, I'm going to go binge some sex pollen alien erotica now as a palate cleanser. Then I'll probably go read The Handyman Method, because I'm a masochist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

vyralvyris's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is the first horror book I've read in a while that I just cannot wait to read again.  Can't wait for the movie to suck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, and Fatphobia

Brutal animal testing, cruelty, and death including insects, a sea turtle, a chimpanzee, a cat, and others I cannot directly recall

animebloodqueen's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

4.5

Be prepared for Chapter 29. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Vomit, and Death of parent