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The Troop by Nick Cutter

40 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

secondhandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The first piece of horror media in a long time that has made me physically uncomfortable. Outbreak meets lord of the flies, if both of those things were cranked up to a hundred. A harrowing story that manages to find the soft pieces of humanity in an impossible situation. While also being deeply upsetting, a page turner to be sure - but avoid if you're squeamish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

Minor: Child abuse

delicateteacup's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow, just wow. I absolutely loved this book. I thrive to find more books like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Fatphobia, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

elisedasnarechick's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, and Vomit

fr0styme11o's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

4.25

This book is great, seriously. The horror in it is incredible, but it is genuinely very disturbing. 

The description truly allows you to imagine everything that's going on in the story so clearly, and I can almost hear, see, and smell the scenes for myself as I read, since the description was so detailed. 

Because of that, The Troop can make you feel quite queasy, and it's not something you should read before you eat, or maybe even after. 

However, it's really interesting and innovative and even though I'm disturbed while reading it, I don't actually want to put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Terminal illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gore, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

rat_leoo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pholcidae's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

Written in a horrific but beautiful prose. The use of language keeps your brain working overdrive to figure out what’s happening. I didn’t put this book down once I’d started it!

Due to personal preference, the book didn’t scare me. It’s certainly gross, awfully descriptive, and tense, but I fear the Big Bad is introduced too soon which dampened any sense of terror I may have felt. Otherwise a book I would recommend any fans of horror in general should read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content

houseofjules's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

 Great writing, gory, gory story. Addictive and repulsive. Part of me wished I had looked up TW/CW's (which I will mention below) but overall, a good story.

Everything below could and should be considered spoilers.

I was not very fond of...

the ending, as it was left up for interpretation. However, personally, I would say Max (the lone survivor) was not infected. If anything a more devastation ending would have been an unaliving considering how traumatizing the whole event would have been to Max, survivor's guilt and all that, plus the way he was marginalized by the whole town afterwards.

The TW/CW are...

descriptive animal death & torture, gore, infection, parasitic worms and insect torture, brief sexual content, body mutilation, and on the lower end bullying language. Also one of the kids is a literal psychopath.

I enjoyed the format of this book, as there are interviews and new clippings etc. peppered in between chapters. The writing and the format are right up my alley, but the contents was at time difficult to get through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

The book contains

explicit descriptions of a parasitic worm that devastates a group of 14 year old scouts. There's rampant paranoia, body mutilation and truly disguising things occurring. The animal cruelty happens a few times, including a gorilla experiencing this parasite. A kitten being drowned and a sea turtle being killed by 2 of the scouts.

autumnrevisited's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. Not because it was bad but because it was so gross and detailed in a way that is just viscerally unnerving. Impressive writing but fucking hell. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content and Torture

poop_scoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia