Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

631 reviews

dirtydumpster's review against another edition

dark 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? N/A

4.25

This was a really great read. It has the perfect pace and the right amount of tense atmosphere to keep you feeling on edge throughout. The characters were well fleshed out, and the plot was goofy to me at first but whew, that changed quick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia and Homophobia

kaylee1957's review against another edition

dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Racism

bookscatstacos's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

elisedasnarechick's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, and Vomit

afuabemareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.75

Wow. This book was so complicated and disturbing. It did take me a while to read and at some points, I feel as though the gore was unnecessary. If you want to gross yourself out, this is the book for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Violence, and Murder

dannb's review against another edition

I really tried, but the story got lost in the very gory/suffering descriptions... of both people and animals.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, and Violence

miss_lux's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

thehogwartshoney's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Whew, I was warned it was graphic😅🫠 

A group of boy scouts and their scoutleader are off on an island trip when a stranger in a boat comes to shore.  Something is most definitely wrong with him, and it seems to be contagious. 

I'm not exactly sure how to rate a book that made me feel so grossed out. I literally had to stop and walk away a few times🤢 it was a lot, but also I needed to keep reading.  I wouldn't say I exactly enjoyed it,  but I would recommend to horror book lovers🙃

The writing was very good. The narrator was also very good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

alynnhays's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

I don't read many horror books, except for Stephen King's works, but I really enjoy a story about an out of control infection. Although this book had a lot of gore, it was mostly sci-fi in nature, which I can handle. The tension in the scenes was so palpable that I would literally tense up and make faces while reading. Overall, I loved it. The alternating timeline between the court proceedings and the island added to the mysterious atmosphere, but there was one storyline,

Shelley's

, that I didn't enjoy. I felt it was unnecessary and the story already had enough tension without his

psychopathic

plotline. Personally, I thought it weakened the whole story. I even skipped a chapter because of the content and it has zero impact on the overall story. But, maybe I'm just more of a sci-fi nerd!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, and Murder

easalden's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It’s well written but I hated it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death