A review by garfieldlasagna
The Troop by Nick Cutter

3.5

My analysis: themes of the loss of innocence/the involuntary coming-of-age the boys go through, especially Max. The danger of interfering with nature, the folly of man interfering with nature for his own purposes. Interesting role of fathers in this; Ephraim wanting to escape from the shadow of his violent father while struggling with his own anger issues, Kent, who idolises his father and can only see a future where he grows up to be exactly like him, and Max, whose father is quite opposite to Kent's--softer, more vulnerable, weaker.