Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

14 reviews

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

jamiee_f's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book was so hyped up, I was prepared to love it! A supernatural/menacing force collides with a boy scout troop on a remote island? Oooh!

However, what this actually ended up being was a gross lord of the flies retelling with more animal abuse and more sociopathic boys. Not sure what the takeaway was supposed to be with this story....

it truly was just a bunch of fucked up kids torturing each other while they become infected with the insatiable hunger the government accidentally set loose.

there were some redeeming qualities with the open ended final portion of the book. I liked how maybe the last boy is returning to the island because he DOES have the hunger, but more likely he is just hungering for the last time he ever knew normalcy.

I just wished for more story, more character motivation, less gore and pointless gross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical trauma, Death, Abandonment, Violence, Bullying, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Stalking, Gore, Body horror, Murder, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Child death, and Blood

poop_scoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Murder, Vomit, Suicide, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Bullying

mbayram's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Fatphobia, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Cannibalism, Cursing, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Minor: Stalking, Vomit, and Sexual content

It's wild. Went into this book blind except I knew it was intense and crazy and that's absolutely true. It's one of the best books I've read in a while. The writing is great and the characters are well rounded. Definitely had me squirming in my seat!

benjiaprout's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.0

I didn't like worms before. I really don't like them now.

The prose is very readable, and the premise is interesting. But considering my copy had a Stephen King quote saying it scared the hell out of him, I'm confused. It was grim, sure, utterly disgusting - the worst body horror I'd read and I've had a mosey about. It made me feel sick, but not scared, there wasn't an awful lot of suspense as the basic plot gets spoiled relatively early on and anyone with decent grasp of story and character can guess where the plot and scouts will end up. Not bad, but I'm not as impressed as I hoped to be, seeing as I'd seen so many people recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Stalking, Violence, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Medical trauma, and Torture

ladyinverse's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

what a fucking bleak book holy shit. absolutely disgusting. i feel distinctly unclean :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Self harm, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Bullying, Gore, Violence, Confinement, Cannibalism, Murder, Cursing, Abandonment, Stalking, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Animal death

major tw for very descriptive animal death/cruelty from pages 194-198 specifically about a cat. i couldn't read those pages but just glanced to see when it ended.

hydratingtoner's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

netsreik's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Gave me the creepy crawly, icky feeling, but very well written. Great imagery and descriptions.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Body horror, Cannibalism, Self harm, Violence, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Gun violence, and Toxic friendship

viireads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Vomit, Body shaming, Child death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

entityj's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Animal death, Bullying, Cannibalism, Death, Excrement, Grief, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Vomit, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Confinement