Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

393 reviews

hollypat36's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? N/A

5.0

First Cutter novel. Loved it. Will be reading more by him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Self harm, Mental illness, Gore, Body horror, and Murder

drace556's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

cretin's review against another edition

Writing was weird and off putting, I don’t care about any of the characters. Story/ plot is off from what I thought it would be. Also too much animal body horror stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, and Animal cruelty

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

katieo156's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Body horror to the max. This book was dark and did not let up, and there was more than one moment where I had to take a breather. I think this pushed me to my limit especially because of the age of the characters, and combining that with body horror made it a tough read. I really liked the format-

past/current/future with news articles and coverage about the situation made it feel like a much richer world and connected each character back to humanity.

Definitely do not pick this up unless you're ready for gore, seriously disturbed character(s), and very little light to be seen at the end of the tunnel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Confinement, Murder, Self harm, Body horror, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, and Mental illness

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

belacqua's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

A vicious, nasty, squirm inducing book that is hard to put down and will absolutely stick with you. Definitely recommended if you like body horror and are comfortable with gruesome depictions of violence. Be warned that there are graphic depictions of animal cruelty and self harm that are very upsetting and will not go down well with everybody. If these things don't deter you it's lean, mean and well worth your time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Self harm, Animal cruelty, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia

yagirlgeo's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

Lord of the Flies with more gore

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Content Warnings

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

photogenicegg's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

It was not scary in the way I thought it would be. I thought it would keep me up at night, but it was just disgusting gore that made me want to puke at times. And wtf was that ending? Bogus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Bullying, Medical content, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, and Police brutality

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