Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

117 reviews

graceexe's review against another edition

dark 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

2.75

forced myself to finish it. i wouldn’t call this horror fiction, just a cheap attempt to gross people out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Animal cruelty, Torture, Gore, Vomit, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Physical abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse

dezaraemd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Medical content, Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, War, and Domestic abuse

ghostbirds's review

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, Fatphobia, Gore, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Eating disorder, Cursing, Cannibalism, Vomit, Homophobia, and Alcohol

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

 Holy shit. Ever since I picked this book up I’ve been thinking about worms. I boarded a flight and as soon as my ears started to gum up my first thought was that it had to be worms. Worms that snuck in there and are curling up, just waiting to spread out and suck the nutrients from my body. Jesus just thinking about the plot of this book gives me goosebumps. Nick Cutter describes every in painstaking detail. This is both a pro and a con. On one hand, I'm completely immersed in the story and I appreciate his creative (and terrifying) analogies and on the other, I am increasingly disgusted with every flip of a page. Speaking of analogies his comparison of human bones jutting out under skin to a trombone in wrapping paper KILLED ME.

Cutter does such a great job characterizing the boys of Troop 52. They make mistakes, they're full of angst and curiosity. The relationships between the boys are complex and I absolutely loved the layers to this. In the first half of the book, I found all of them to be little shits. This continued until the end, but I also realized I was being unfair to these characters. And maybe it was the point to despise them all a little bit.

The structure of this story, traditional chapters intermingled with newspaper articles, interviews, research logs etc was unconventional and I enjoyed it so much. The story wouldn't be the same without it. I read the acknowledgments for once and turns out Cutter was inspired to do this by Stephen King's Carrie, so maybe that will be one of my next reads.

Songs:

• Sick of Being Young - Krooked Kings
• Christmas Kids - ROAR

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Abandonment, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Animal death, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Alcohol

Minor: Excrement and Fatphobia

amandaannpanda's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

clarke's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

Shelley deserved a worse death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Violence, Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical content, Self harm, Vomit, Body horror, Murder, and Terminal illness

sepulchral's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

randanopterix's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book is an absolute fucking nightmare, I mean this in the best way possible. 
Not for even the remotely faint of heart, I usually have a strong stomach for media like this but event I had to avoid the book for a couple of days when my real life got stressful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Suicide, Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Torture, Blood, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Body horror, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Child death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Confinement, Abortion, Miscarriage, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Fatphobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

jocelyndolence's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.5

this book was such a harrowing read. after reading i just felt gross, which i think is what the author had it mind. it reminds me very much of lord of the flies, minus the cannibalism. overly, this book was amazing. the detail, the characters, everything was written with so much purpose and detail that it was hard to put down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Murder, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Self harm

Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

mvanhaas's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming