Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

110 reviews

spooky_taylor's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic friendship, and Self harm

Moderate: Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Vomit, and Suicide

Minor: Police brutality and Body shaming

toxxicwasste'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Child death, Medical content, Self harm, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, and Body shaming

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Cannibalism

An amazing horror book. I can’t wait to read more from Nick Cutter. READ ALL TRIGGER WARNINGS AND DO NOT TAKE THEM LIGHTLY.

athompson0429's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Super gross, but I loved it! Very well done, and the descriptions are incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Murder, Mental illness, Animal death, Child death, Torture, Bullying, and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, Medical content, and Child abuse

jully_bean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Dysphoria, Medical content, Death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Child death, Animal death, and Self harm

itsjustgrumpy's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Cutter's descriptions are both vile and illuminating. Body horror with a spotlight on it to highlight every squirming maggot and fleshy lesion. The man does it so right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Body horror, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Eating disorder, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abandonment and Vomit

Minor: Bullying

yagirlgeo'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? It's complicated

3.5

Lord of the Flies with more gore

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Content Warnings

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

photogenicegg's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

It was not scary in the way I thought it would be. I thought it would keep me up at night, but it was just disgusting gore that made me want to puke at times. And wtf was that ending? Bogus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Bullying, Medical content, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, and Police brutality

mccormicke2's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Self harm, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Animal cruelty, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Eating disorder

mewpasaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

4.5

Normally, I'd be keeping (and re-reading) any book I rate this highly, however, Nick Cutter's The Troop is an exception; it's too gruesome and descriptive when it comes to wanton animal cruelty. It's incredibly well written and engaging and it definitely does body horror well (something I find hard to find in written works), but I just don't care to re-read accounts of squishy, gross torture of animals and the whiny, teenage narratives of the main characters.

If you like body horror, you'll probably find this is a good/fast read. It's also worth noting that while the characters aren't necessarily likeable, they are not two dimensional and do seem to be complex in the way I would say most pre-teens/teenagers tend to be, which made it more believable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Vomit, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal death, Homophobia, Murder, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Gore, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, and Death

jennaraetions's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

5 stars simply because what the fuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Vomit, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Fatphobia, Animal death, Bullying, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Grief