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lizsbooknook 's review for:
The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Light spoilers below, no major plot spoilers.
Story: I loved the story in this book. A relatively simple premise executed really well. My biggest critique is that I wish the antagonist/creature was explained less. This is the type of book where less information makes the threat scarier, so I wish we didn’t learn quite as much about it. I enjoyed the ending, it got a little campy towards the last quarter (pun intended) but ultimately I think it worked and I found it a lot of fun!
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Characters: the characters were a little one note, but this clearly wasn’t a character driven story so I’m not too beat up about it. I didn’t get attached to anyone, so the more tragic moments didn’t hurt as much as they were probably meant to. In particular, I didn’t love reading Shelley-focused chapters. He was interesting, but nothing I haven’t read before, and the descriptions of animal torture were gratuitous and uncomfortable to read.
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Writing: Cutter does a great job writing really disgusting descriptions! My skin was crawling quite a bit during this book. Definitely not for you if body horror/insects/trypophobia is something that bothers you! The scenes with Ephraim (if you’ve read the book you know exactly what I’m talking about) got to me the most.
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Overall: 4/5
Story: I loved the story in this book. A relatively simple premise executed really well. My biggest critique is that I wish the antagonist/creature was explained less. This is the type of book where less information makes the threat scarier, so I wish we didn’t learn quite as much about it. I enjoyed the ending, it got a little campy towards the last quarter (pun intended) but ultimately I think it worked and I found it a lot of fun!
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Characters: the characters were a little one note, but this clearly wasn’t a character driven story so I’m not too beat up about it. I didn’t get attached to anyone, so the more tragic moments didn’t hurt as much as they were probably meant to. In particular, I didn’t love reading Shelley-focused chapters. He was interesting, but nothing I haven’t read before, and the descriptions of animal torture were gratuitous and uncomfortable to read.
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Writing: Cutter does a great job writing really disgusting descriptions! My skin was crawling quite a bit during this book. Definitely not for you if body horror/insects/trypophobia is something that bothers you! The scenes with Ephraim (if you’ve read the book you know exactly what I’m talking about) got to me the most.
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Overall: 4/5