Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

218 reviews

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, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Self harm, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

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

dadcalves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

mothmaam's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Not for the faint of heart, quite graphic. 
A group of boy scouts get stranded on an island after a strange man wanders into their camp. Their scout leader, Tim, is the local doctor and tries to help the man. 

Shelley might be my most hated character ever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying and Vomit

jvr1210's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rbsbstn_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

A trigger warning should be included but heck!!! This was so good but also so hard to read - in terms of the genre and what’s actually happening. 

Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

alexlouise97'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic