Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

62 reviews

tupeloallie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Terminal illness, Excrement, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Fatphobia, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

pjgilmore's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Eating disorder

loulouya's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Blood, and Alcohol

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

sykamor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.5

Fancy seeing you here, gollum...

I enjoyed this. It was tense and creepy. I mainly took away stars because there are a few glaring animal related inaccuracies that really took me out of the story. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys horror though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

shadowykittenwizard's review against another edition

challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Gun violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

jameszabik's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kj_bewick's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Trigger warnings: Body horror, self-harm and mutation, depiction of disease, violence against animals and children. 

Light spoilers, nothing deep. 

The first review I ever saw of The Troop was: 

"Fuck this book" 

That is accurate. 

I uncomfortably squirmed 75% of the time, I even wretched at one point. The language Cutter uses to describe these awful things is horrifically perfect. 

The animal abuse in this book is what nearly made me put it down. I had to close the book for a while after reading the turtle scene due to me uncontrollably sobbing. It was rough, as were the chimp and kitten scenes. You have been warned! 

If you can get past that, this book is fantastic. Horror fiction at it's absolute finest. I will be visited more of Cutter's work in the future, after I read something about fluffy unicorns and cupcakes to recover...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia

gperez8's review against another edition

Too unsettling, maybe because all the bad stuff was all happening to children. The science part was intriguing, however I couldn't stomach the boys portions, especially when they started turning on each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

rebekahmccubbins's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

3.75

A truly disgusting read. I would have finished this sooner, but I kept getting itchy reading it. Fantastically written, but a tough read if

you're bothered by parasites/bugs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic