The descriptions alone were such high points in the book.
Nick Cutter’s writing was so fluid and vivid and really took the horror elements to the next level.
How Nick Cutter incorporated that to show the characters’ humanity and juxtapose it to the hell they’re going through made it all the more heartbreaking. Literal children! That scene with the turtle was so effective in showing how they really were just boys going through the most horrific experience, the worst time in their lives, in a situation you won’t wish upon your worst enemy. There was this scene with a turtle and some of the boys struggling to kill it for food, and it stood out to me so much because before that point I glossed over the fact that they were mere children. It was so easy to understand why they’re making the decisions they’re making, which I think makes for a better reading experience overall. You got to know them without dampening the pace and sacrificing the tension. My favorite thing about how the characters were written was that each one was given ample backstory, but it was only peppered throughout the plot. The characters of course didn’t know that, but it’s written in a way that you feel like you didn’t either-like you’ll make the exact same decisions the characters were doing, because what else is there to do? Nick Cutter wrote these string of events in such a way that you yourself would feel helpless, that even what seemed to be the right course of action for these characters held a detriment to their survival overall. It was so easy to invest in the story, especially with the help of the setting and characters. Throughout its chapters, The Troop gave the reader the right amount of questions to build tension and curiosity, and answered them at just the right moments to move the plot forward. I personally loved the story and thought it was very well-developed. That said, this book is not for the faint of heart-if you don't like body horror described in detail or extreme animal cruelty and violence, you might have to skip this one, because The Troop wasn’t the slightest bit afraid to go to such extremes. I feel like this book has built up quite a cult following over the years given the premise and how gruesomely it tackled the idea of campers stuck in an island with a deadly, easily transmittable pathological threat, and I’m so glad I finally got around to reading it. They then find themselves exposed to a biological threat more horrific than they can ever begin to imagine in this story of horror and survival. A troop of boys go into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip headed by Scoutmaster Riggs.
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