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tundragal1 's review for:
The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Spoilers ahead, be warned
I find that this book was really well written. I'm not the biggest fan of parasitic horror, but this flowed smoothly and vividly. The reason I gave it three stars out of five was for two separate reasons that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Animal abuse is very prevalent in this book. The author pulls no stops in going as far as possible in explaining each and every action in a lot of detail. This does get very disturbing, though I can see the necessity to portray just how demented Shelly is. However, I found this took away some of the horror in a strange way. I found myself feeling simply disgusted by it all, but not really scared. There were some tense moments and cool imagery, but I feel like a lot of it was more splatter punk than horror.
The other thing that bugs me is Newtons death. The act of getting the spark plugs and then just leaving them out to dry feels like it was forced. The reader knew that only one would live from the different exerts detailing what happened on the island, but I thought it would happen in a more believable way. The fact that they left them to dry on the rock, resulting in them being taken and forced to find them from Shelley, felt tacked on, like the author didn't have any other excuse to make the scene happen. I guess you can say that they were careless or stressed, but for me, it just stuck out immediately and felt like a jagged, unnatural angle in such a smoothly written book. I feel like it could have been better done. Either that, or it was the authors intent to have Newton die over a small mistake.
These are just my opinions, I know others will differ. I did enjoy reading the book, and it had great visuals. I'm not a fan of some portions, but overall, it was well done and smooth for the most part.
I find that this book was really well written. I'm not the biggest fan of parasitic horror, but this flowed smoothly and vividly. The reason I gave it three stars out of five was for two separate reasons that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Animal abuse is very prevalent in this book. The author pulls no stops in going as far as possible in explaining each and every action in a lot of detail. This does get very disturbing, though I can see the necessity to portray just how demented Shelly is. However, I found this took away some of the horror in a strange way. I found myself feeling simply disgusted by it all, but not really scared. There were some tense moments and cool imagery, but I feel like a lot of it was more splatter punk than horror.
The other thing that bugs me is Newtons death. The act of getting the spark plugs and then just leaving them out to dry feels like it was forced. The reader knew that only one would live from the different exerts detailing what happened on the island, but I thought it would happen in a more believable way. The fact that they left them to dry on the rock, resulting in them being taken and forced to find them from Shelley, felt tacked on, like the author didn't have any other excuse to make the scene happen. I guess you can say that they were careless or stressed, but for me, it just stuck out immediately and felt like a jagged, unnatural angle in such a smoothly written book. I feel like it could have been better done. Either that, or it was the authors intent to have Newton die over a small mistake.
These are just my opinions, I know others will differ. I did enjoy reading the book, and it had great visuals. I'm not a fan of some portions, but overall, it was well done and smooth for the most part.