Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

15 reviews

charlieeee's review against another edition

dark sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Self harm, Torture, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Bullying, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Police brutality, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Medical content, and Forced institutionalization

spellboundreader's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

PSA: if you are a pregnant woman, and at the stage where you can feel your baby moving… wait until they are born before picking this in up. Learn from my mistake!

If you are on the hunt for a tense and morbid book to read - look no further. Lord of the Flies meets your most disgusting nightmares. I devoured this in a day because I NEEDED answers. This book was worth the heebie-jeebies!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Cursing, and Violence

priscillarobock's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

Spiders, worms

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

soaphest's review against another edition

not sure how to rate this. imo it was a good book but i wouldn’t re-read it or recommend it to anyone, because aside from the fact that i did think it was well-written with a decent story and set of characters it didn’t provide me with anything special or any sense of fulfilment. moreover this book was very heavy on the animal cruelty and some of the sequences were so jarring that had to skip over it because it became very upsetting, and i don’t think this level of detail in the descriptions was necessary aside from providing shock value. ultimately, i did not think that this book was scary or frightening, just sad, disgusting and tragic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fatphobia, Abandonment, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Child death, Gore, Torture, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Vomit, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Cannibalism, Xenophobia, and Forced institutionalization

paperbackparker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

Absolutely disgusting.
I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Excrement, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Torture, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Death, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

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

carolinemb's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Forced institutionalization

kimberlyswalters's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.75

I had to stop reading this book several times. I'd read in forums that this book was too gory, too disgusting, too much. I thought people were exaggerating. They're not.

It was very well-written and the concept was good, but there was too much detail. I learned too much about some of these characters, especially Shelley.

I honestly don't believe we needed to know that he was erect as he murdered that poor kitten. Things like that are just thrown into this book for shock value and add no substance to the story. The worm swimming into his urethra was disgusting, but that's fine because it explains how they infected him. The erections were pointless and weird to imagine when reading a book about minors. I do know that serial killers do feel that way about their heinous acts of violence, but I don't need to know that about this child. It happens multiple times throughout this story. Bleh.

Is it scary? No. Is it gross? Absolutely. I'd only recommend this abomination to those that just want to read about some gross worms and gets off to body horror.

I'd recommend this to Shelley.

Overall, it was well-written and I genuinely enjoyed Max, Ephraim, and Newt. I don't think Kent's character was fleshed out enough for me to care about him. His father's character made more of an impact. I am not a religious person by any means, but I do think the author may benefit from Jesus and some therapy. In fact, I need therapy after reading this. My appointment is scheduled for three weeks from now. I'm not hopeful that I'll make it until then with this content wiggling around inside of my head. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Violence, Gun violence, Blood, Child death, Death, Animal death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Murder, Mental illness, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Stalking, Vomit, and Self harm

mcribsy13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.25

Not for the faint of heart, or stomach...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Gore, Terminal illness, Vomit, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

sexualedward's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, Torture, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Toxic friendship, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gun violence, Confinement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Cursing, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol and Bullying