Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

19 reviews

voxlunae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.5

Man, this book is fucking gross. So disturbing sometimes. I grimaced through whole scenes, several times. However, I really enjoyed the writing and I burned through it in two sittings. I always advocate for more diverse characters and strong female characters, but given that this is about Boy Scouts and inspired by Lord of the Flies, the homogeneity isn't surprising. I give it a pass. Really taut storytelling, a horrifying threat, some heartbreaking scenes, and all the skin-crawling disgust you could ask for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, and Self harm

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, and Homophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Confinement, Cannibalism, and Cursing

actuallyirina's review against another edition

dark sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Personally, not for me. I found the horror to be more sad than scary, and I felt pretty frustrated by the end of it. Give it a try, it's definitely last paced, but I dunno I don't think I'll be picking up another from this author anytime soon .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, and Homophobia

poutine_enthusiast's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

masterful atmosphere and visceral descriptions but hampered by weak characterization. relies too heavily on the gross-factor

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying and Police brutality

Minor: Homophobia and Fatphobia

ghostbirds's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, Fatphobia, Gore, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Eating disorder, Cursing, Cannibalism, Vomit, Homophobia, and Alcohol

aemowers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Vomit, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual content, Alcohol, Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, Child death, and Death

ladyinverse's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

what a fucking bleak book holy shit. absolutely disgusting. i feel distinctly unclean :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Self harm, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Bullying, Gore, Violence, Confinement, Cannibalism, Murder, Cursing, Abandonment, Stalking, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Animal death

major tw for very descriptive animal death/cruelty from pages 194-198 specifically about a cat. i couldn't read those pages but just glanced to see when it ended.

khchen's review against another edition

too graphic and explicit, made me uncomfortable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Animal cruelty

Minor: Homophobia

goes into explicit detail & imagery about parasitic infection

jocelyndolence's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this book was such a harrowing read. after reading i just felt gross, which i think is what the author had it mind. it reminds me very much of lord of the flies, minus the cannibalism. overly, this book was amazing. the detail, the characters, everything was written with so much purpose and detail that it was hard to put down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Murder, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Self harm

Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

Well that was certainly a trip. Fairly decent read, not my typical kind of horror, but not bad as a refresher between other subgenres. It's a pretty solid three for me personally, and I could see this potentially being pretty polarizing for people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Grief, Self harm, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape

itshrewsbury's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Absolutely disgusting in every way imaginable. It’s expertly told, weaving together interviews, scientific recordings, and first hand accounts of the horror of the mutated hydatid. I’m so glad I didn’t have to add “cannibalism” the the trigger warnings on this thing, and that’s all I can say about it, really. 

Edit: after reading other reviews, yes, the boys fit a certain stereotype and yes, there’s nothing “new” brought to horror in this book. HOWEVER, if you enjoy gore and seeing how grossed out you can get, this is the book for you. It’s just another “science has gone too far” book, but it’s the expertly crafted existential horror and the mystery of who will and won’t survive that make it a good read. 

21+

TW/CW: Body horror, disease, graphic depictions of overeating, internal parasites, graphic animal testing and death, homophobia, fatphobia, unreality, torture, graphic descriptions of decay 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia and Homophobia