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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
Gruesome!
This book is by far the bloodiest horror novel I've read in a long time. So bloody I almost couldn't finish it! I recommend this book to people who love science horror, body horror, and animal horror.
This book is by far the bloodiest horror novel I've read in a long time. So bloody I almost couldn't finish it! I recommend this book to people who love science horror, body horror, and animal horror.
A very fun and different concept however, the body goes in this book is off the charts. Almost had to DNF because of it. I loved the interactions of the middle school aged boys.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
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:
Complicated
Reading this book was like watching The Human Centipede for the first time as a 16 year old in the middle of the night. In that way it’s probably the most scary book I’ve read.
The gore and the grosses and pure horror of the killer worms is done so perfectly you can feel one crawling on your ear as you read. The snippets of other media as exposition I loved, the boys you really come to root for (some of them), there’s excerpts from court hearings or newspapers throughout that drip feed the plot which I loved. Overall, the semi-realness of a bio-weapon worm was so realistic I can’t look at them the same ever again. Very unsettling, and I’m spooked forever now…
The gore and the grosses and pure horror of the killer worms is done so perfectly you can feel one crawling on your ear as you read. The snippets of other media as exposition I loved, the boys you really come to root for (some of them), there’s excerpts from court hearings or newspapers throughout that drip feed the plot which I loved. Overall, the semi-realness of a bio-weapon worm was so realistic I can’t look at them the same ever again. Very unsettling, and I’m spooked forever now…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I had such a visceral reaction to this book. I haven’t been able to get it out of my thoughts. It’s like, Lord Of The Flies meets Outbreak. I hope I can sleep tonight
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror
Moderate: Child death, Torture
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
holy hell did it deliver in the spooky and disturbing, so as a horror book it’s doing exactly what it needs to do, but it just wasn’t MY thing. I did find myself wanting to know the fate of the boys in the troop but i had to skip parts based on how graphic. Nick cutter definitely has a way of painting a scene with his words.
Every now and again I decide I’m interested in horror novels. And I do enjoy a good Stephen King here and there. But I’ve learned that proper horror isn’t my cup of tea. I get too sad for the characters early in the story, knowing horrible things will happen to them and that some (or most, maybe all) of them will die horribly.
Such was my experience with The Troop. A scout master and his five scouts are on their annual camping trip on an island a few miles off the Canadian coast. What they don’t know is that a man has escaped to the same island from an experimental facility. Something horrible has made him terribly hungry. And the hunger is infectious. Fictional newspapers and scientific journals fill you in on information you wouldn’t otherwise know.
One part classic post-Stephen King horror and one part Lord of the Flies, The Troop is a gripping if depressing read. The characters are familiar archetypes, but most are written with a reasonable amount of depth and complication. They start dropping in a very predictable order, which can damage the suspense. One character in particular is eye-rollingly sociopathic from the start.
I was gripped the whole time. But it’s not something I’d read again.
Such was my experience with The Troop. A scout master and his five scouts are on their annual camping trip on an island a few miles off the Canadian coast. What they don’t know is that a man has escaped to the same island from an experimental facility. Something horrible has made him terribly hungry. And the hunger is infectious. Fictional newspapers and scientific journals fill you in on information you wouldn’t otherwise know.
One part classic post-Stephen King horror and one part Lord of the Flies, The Troop is a gripping if depressing read. The characters are familiar archetypes, but most are written with a reasonable amount of depth and complication. They start dropping in a very predictable order, which can damage the suspense. One character in particular is eye-rollingly sociopathic from the start.
I was gripped the whole time. But it’s not something I’d read again.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Terrifying book if you are interested in more realistic horror rather than monster. It was my favorite book I read in 2024.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Medical trauma, Murder