Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

212 reviews

kit_kat21's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

  When a Boy Scout troop goes to an island for a camping trip but so many things go wrong…
     This book is so good, it is similar to Lord of the Flies and it is really spooky at points. I think all these characters change in so many ways and I could not put this book down because of the suspense. I think it is shocking how all of them change throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

thepercenator's review against another edition

dark 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

Oh boy, this book was a doozy for me. Aside from the obvious gruesome nature of the book and the detailed descriptions, I felt like some of the other horror elements in this book (see content warnings) weren’t at all necessary for the storyline. That all being said, I still enjoyed this book and thought about it a lot after finishing. I found myself more attached to the characters than I thought I would be (though there are obvious exceptions).  I thought the writing was great and engaging and it definitely left me unsettled and more emotional than anticipated. It was just a book that made me need a little break from horror after. I’ll say it again - check content warnings!

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Content Warnings

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

alex_unabridged's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

cryptidenthusiast's review against another edition

medium-paced

1.0

I went into this with high hopes, only to get a quarter of the way through and wonder why I was bothering. This book isn’t scary, it’s just…gross. Probably just a personal preference, but I’m looking for a horror book with dread and terror, not just body horror and animal mutilation. 

The worms as a concept could have been interesting, but they’re either a threat, or they aren’t.

Shelly ends up letting hundreds of them loose into the ocean at one point and we’re supposed to believe a chemical dump caught EVERY worm or fish that ate them?

The cast is a dull mismatch of stereotypes. Meat headed mean jock, ill tempered delinquent, the follower, the cruel “psycho”, and the fat kid (which the author will remind you, REPEATEDLY of. You will not forget that Newton is fat). All I got from this book is apparently young boys are two steps away from losing their minds and turning to cruelty? Very lord of the flies I guess. 

Shelley was absolutely not needed. This felt like a tacked on extra threat because the worms themselves weren’t “scary” enough, so there needed to be some unhinged…mastermind, apparently? He was a very methodical psycho for being what, 14? Managing to play every adult and other kid like a fiddle. There’s multiple instances of animal mutilation, but the

graphic six(ish) page interlude of Shelley’s recollection of killing a kitten and getting aroused over it wasn’t needed.

At all. 

And, if you’re curious, there’s over 20 mentions of “piss” or bladders or peeing in this book. Not sure why the author felt we needed that, but it was frequent enough that it was kinda distracting lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child death, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia and Fire/Fire injury

voxlunae's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Man, this book is fucking gross. So disturbing sometimes. I grimaced through whole scenes, several times. However, I really enjoyed the writing and I burned through it in two sittings. I always advocate for more diverse characters and strong female characters, but given that this is about Boy Scouts and inspired by Lord of the Flies, the homogeneity isn't surprising. I give it a pass. Really taut storytelling, a horrifying threat, some heartbreaking scenes, and all the skin-crawling disgust you could ask for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, and Self harm

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, and Homophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Confinement, Cannibalism, and Cursing

dadcalves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Child death

sofiam19's review against another edition

dark sad 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: Self harm, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia

alsavini's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Child death, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Gore, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

bites_of_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

I buddy read this with a friend and I'm very glad that I did because I needed to talk about it with someone as I read certain parts of this book. We follow a group of boys and their scout leader as they face the horrors of someone showing up at their camp with some strange illness. The things that happen in the cabin and then in the woods are brutal and really make the kids do things that no one should ever have to do. Some of the kids try their best to act rationally while others... well, they choose to do things differently. I will not say much because this book should be experienced without knowing too much about what's happening. 
Please check content warnings, do not eat while eating, and just read with care. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Violence, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Torture, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Confinement

fionagerman's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

This was such a good book but there were whole paragraphs that I just had to skip over due to graphic descriptions of body horror and animal torture. 
They did need to be in there to show the characters in a more interesting way but boy am I glad it's fiction. 
A very interesting way of displaying the facts of the story through the use of articles, transcripts etc. 

I was going to read this whole eating my lunch one day but decided not to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury