Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

549 reviews

ktakeeley's review

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Death, Self harm, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

chicaso's review against another edition

dark sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Animal death, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Violence, Confinement, Death, and Excrement

geneius's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-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

3.75

this was fucking nasty. holy fucking shit. HUGE trigger warning for animal death and animal cruelty. like…. huge. i had to skip pages and skim read parts because i know myself and knew this book wasn’t worth sacrificing my mental health. i would’ve rated it a bit higher had those sections not been in the book, i understand backstory but jesus we get it! overall though this was great, the author’s writing style and the blurbs of interviews and news clippings and emails was really cool, i love when authors do that. i loved the kiddos (mostly… shelley can go fuck himself) and i loved the premise and the scenery despite some passages making me gag, even with me not being easily bothered by gore. this also made me want to  re-read lord of the flies, lol. i went into this book 90% blind and i’d say do the same if you feel like you want to read this. would i recommend this to just anyone though? absolutely not! fuck you nick cutter, i’m gonna think about this book and process everything for a long while!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Self harm, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

duke_elligos's review

challenging 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

It was a bit difficult for me to get into the story at first, I'm not sure I entirely like how Nick Cutter writes. I don't love how much animal harm is in the book. I almost DNF it, but I kept reading and I ended up hooked by the tense atmosphere and the character interactions. I really started to care about (most of) the characters and found that I needed to keep reading.
It's a messed up story, but that's exactly what I signed up for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Gore, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Medical content

violetwraith's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

eusteph's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

3.0

I've got mixed feelings about this one. Was it bad? No. Was it good? Not necessarily. 

This was very much a middle-of-the-road book, in my opinion. I am fairly desensitized to gore so that didn't really bother me. I guess what this book lacked, in my opinion, was a strong connection between me and the characters. This isn't necessarily a judgement on the author's writing style or anything like that, I guess maybe I'm just not the target audience for this? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

j_yarbrough's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Self harm, Torture, Animal cruelty, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Blood

annie_green's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

I really liked what you did here. There were some very terrifying moments that I had to stop in order to cry. There was even one incident where I just had to leave the room I was reading it in to just gather myself. Some nice moments that were sweet especially how their friendship was shown. I felt disgusted going through this but finished feeling better somehow.

I was wondering when the other type of worm would show up and I was surprised. I loved that email from the little girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Self harm, Animal cruelty, and Eating disorder

anne_eventually's review

challenging dark emotional medium-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

4.25

like a really f-ed up Stand By Me. full of gore and guts and things that hurt my stomach (no pun intended). I loved the ending, but I thought it could go without the animal parts 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

wholesome_chaotic's review against another edition

The book wasn't good enough to push me past the animal torture. In a more interesting and well written story I could've handled it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death