The Troop by Nick Cutter: A Brutal Read
The Novel I Finished and Could Not Recommend to Everyone
The Troop is the most physically disturbing novel I have finished. Nick Cutter puts a group of Boy Scouts on an island in the Canadian wilderness and introduces a stranger who is infected with a parasite engineered to consume its host. The horror is biological and specific and it does not look away. I finished it in two days and told exactly zero people to read it because the content is not for every reader. I am telling you so you can make that decision yourself.
There is no redemptive arc here. This book is content to unsettle you and leave.
"There are things in the dark places that have waited longer than memory permits.
"Nick Cutter
Reading The Troop
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Recommending this to exactly one person I know and not to anyone else because the content requires a specific kind of reader to find it worthwhile.
This book has graphic content involving harm to children and animals. That is not a spoiler. That is something to know before you decide to read it.