Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

617 reviews

jameszabik's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

randeerebecca's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.0

This book was gross, made me feel uncomfortable, and made me gasp out loud at parts. It was horror the way I like it. 

Docked one star because of the graphic descriptions of animal abuse/torture :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Torture, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

logenthielke's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

goodnekovibes's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Gore

jakebone17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

The definition of a nail biting page turner 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

atleastelise's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

I am extremely unwell. 

Lord of the Flies meets Body Horror

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Bullying and Vomit

creepicrawli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

kj_bewick's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? No

5.0

Trigger warnings: Body horror, self-harm and mutation, depiction of disease, violence against animals and children. 

Light spoilers, nothing deep. 

The first review I ever saw of The Troop was: 

"Fuck this book" 

That is accurate. 

I uncomfortably squirmed 75% of the time, I even wretched at one point. The language Cutter uses to describe these awful things is horrifically perfect. 

The animal abuse in this book is what nearly made me put it down. I had to close the book for a while after reading the turtle scene due to me uncontrollably sobbing. It was rough, as were the chimp and kitten scenes. You have been warned! 

If you can get past that, this book is fantastic. Horror fiction at it's absolute finest. I will be visited more of Cutter's work in the future, after I read something about fluffy unicorns and cupcakes to recover...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia

mooxoxo's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.5

Overall well paced but I didn’t feel connected to any of the main characters as the story progressed. There’s some animal cruelty scenes that were hard to get through but the human violence didn’t seem too bad. The story is broken up with interviews and news articles post events that keep the tension up in the story but one of the reveals felt drawn out and a little unnecessary to the story overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

hayred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death