Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

82 reviews

sparetimebibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.25

I loved this, but hated it at the same time. The pacing and writing was amazing, and the story was so unsettling. I loved that we got to know the inner thoughts of each character. However, a lot of the things in here seemed unnecessary to me and very triggering. Definitely read about trigger warning before diving in. I skipped a lot of pages because the content was triggering to me, but still overall enjoyed the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gore

courtnyklly's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Violence, Torture, and Self harm

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

mochomito's review

dark 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? It's complicated

2.0

Disappointing…. I need twist and turns and surprises in my stories. I guessed everything… and that’s disappointing to me. 
Also I need to care for the characters… I didn’t care for any of them… which just made me annoyed and angry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Torture, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Body horror, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Disappointing…. I need twist and turns and surprises in my stories. I guessed everything… and that’s disappointing to me. Also I need to care for the characters… I didn’t care for any of them… which just made me annoyed and angry.

netsreik's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.5

Gave me the creepy crawly, icky feeling, but very well written. Great imagery and descriptions.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Body horror, Cannibalism, Self harm, Violence, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Gun violence, and Toxic friendship

grummy_mania's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, and Medical trauma

waverlyloyd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was good & very intriguing. However, i’m not a fan of overtly gross stuff. like blood doesn’t gross me out but when sickness is described in detail, it really freaks me out so this book was super gross LOL. it was really good though and a super interesting concept. one I could see the government absolutely doing. I just gave it 3.5 ⭐️ because it grossed me out so much 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Murder, Torture, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Blood

jackalopecore's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit, Body shaming, Murder, Cannibalism, Bullying, and Torture

Minor: Excrement, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

lilgrimmy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

5.0

This book was truly disturbing. I felt so many emotions through out its’ pages. I don’t know what to say other than if you have not experienced this book, you should give it a try. Five stars and the promise to read more from Nick Cutter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia

kimberlyswalters's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.75

I had to stop reading this book several times. I'd read in forums that this book was too gory, too disgusting, too much. I thought people were exaggerating. They're not.

It was very well-written and the concept was good, but there was too much detail. I learned too much about some of these characters, especially Shelley.

I honestly don't believe we needed to know that he was erect as he murdered that poor kitten. Things like that are just thrown into this book for shock value and add no substance to the story. The worm swimming into his urethra was disgusting, but that's fine because it explains how they infected him. The erections were pointless and weird to imagine when reading a book about minors. I do know that serial killers do feel that way about their heinous acts of violence, but I don't need to know that about this child. It happens multiple times throughout this story. Bleh.

Is it scary? No. Is it gross? Absolutely. I'd only recommend this abomination to those that just want to read about some gross worms and gets off to body horror.

I'd recommend this to Shelley.

Overall, it was well-written and I genuinely enjoyed Max, Ephraim, and Newt. I don't think Kent's character was fleshed out enough for me to care about him. His father's character made more of an impact. I am not a religious person by any means, but I do think the author may benefit from Jesus and some therapy. In fact, I need therapy after reading this. My appointment is scheduled for three weeks from now. I'm not hopeful that I'll make it until then with this content wiggling around inside of my head. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Violence, Gun violence, Blood, Child death, Death, Animal death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Murder, Mental illness, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Stalking, Vomit, and Self harm

youreawizardjerry's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

GROSS.
and...strangely emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Child death, Physical abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Bullying and Fatphobia