Helpful Score: 2
I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, it is well written, fast paced, and very creepy. However, it does feature a few scenes with animal cruelty, which is one of my personal hot buttons. If it is one of yours too you may want to pass on this one, or at least skip thoe passages.
Helpful Score: 1
Troop leader Dr. Tim Riggs takes his group of boy scouts to an isolated island. With no way to get off the island until Sunday morning, Riggs tucks his kids in and decides to sit on the porch for a bit before turning in. A stranger approaches and right away Riggs knows there is something off with this guy but to keep his kids safe he invites him in hoping to help him. What happens next will terrify and disgust the reader.
The Troop is told from many viewpoints giving the reader an inside look into the fallout of a bio-engineered nightmare that ensues on the island. The five boys, all 14, are a bit stereotypical but only adds to the story. Kent, the jock and obvious leader of the group and Newton is the exact opposite with being overweight and a mamas boy. Max is the middle man and always looking to help anyone out and Ephraim is a ticking time bomb at times. Rounding the group out is Shelley who is unusual and harder to put a finger on why he is so different. Together this group is dynamic and with the infection raging these personalities became heightened.
With the alternating telling of the events on the island and what happens off the island via government research notes, recordings and witness statements, the reader is privy to all aspects of this infections and the results of their experiment.
This is truly a horror novel and will have your stomach turning and wishing you could close your eyes. Squirm worthy and a must for anyone that loves the horror genre.
The Troop is told from many viewpoints giving the reader an inside look into the fallout of a bio-engineered nightmare that ensues on the island. The five boys, all 14, are a bit stereotypical but only adds to the story. Kent, the jock and obvious leader of the group and Newton is the exact opposite with being overweight and a mamas boy. Max is the middle man and always looking to help anyone out and Ephraim is a ticking time bomb at times. Rounding the group out is Shelley who is unusual and harder to put a finger on why he is so different. Together this group is dynamic and with the infection raging these personalities became heightened.
With the alternating telling of the events on the island and what happens off the island via government research notes, recordings and witness statements, the reader is privy to all aspects of this infections and the results of their experiment.
This is truly a horror novel and will have your stomach turning and wishing you could close your eyes. Squirm worthy and a must for anyone that loves the horror genre.
Not my cup of tea.
I've read a lot of horror books and thought I had a strong stomach but this one is grossing me out!
Great if you want to go on a diet cause you will lose your appetite.
Not wasting any more time on this book. Life is too short.
Time to move on to a better book.
I've read a lot of horror books and thought I had a strong stomach but this one is grossing me out!
Great if you want to go on a diet cause you will lose your appetite.
Not wasting any more time on this book. Life is too short.
Time to move on to a better book.
Scoutmaster Tim Riggs has taken his troop to Falstaff Island for their annual wilderness camping trip. The five boys all trust and respect their Scoutmaster and are hoping to have a grand time. A gentleman comes onto the island and he is paper-thin and starving, always hungry. Tim gets the boys to keep to the cabin and attempts to take care of the man.
That is when the danger starts. The man is full of worms that have taken over his whole body. The worms attach themselves to Tim and the contagion begins.
This novel was well written and snags your attention. The boys are pure boys and you feel their distress as they watch each other become people that they didn't know.
The book is a bit gory in parts, but I think it was essential for feeling the devastation that the boys were experiencing.
That is when the danger starts. The man is full of worms that have taken over his whole body. The worms attach themselves to Tim and the contagion begins.
This novel was well written and snags your attention. The boys are pure boys and you feel their distress as they watch each other become people that they didn't know.
The book is a bit gory in parts, but I think it was essential for feeling the devastation that the boys were experiencing.
One of the worse I've tried to read---and I mean tried!
Horror stories have just become gory and stupid, the authors try to make them more gory than the last one, etc.
This book is 500 pages and after 125 pages it was just skip and skim the rest of the way and I skipped a lot, once I got the gist of the storyline I just got sick and tired of trying to read pages and pages of descriptions, the chapters are short but they go back and forth from the the present, to the past, to a 'report', over and over throughout the entire book, I found that stupid and tedious.
SPOILER---when it came to light that the 'horror' was a tapeworm (I didn't get into the details of how it became genetically altered, I didn't care) I just lost interest but trudged through a little more then it just became boring and stupid
Horror stories have just become gory and stupid, the authors try to make them more gory than the last one, etc.
This book is 500 pages and after 125 pages it was just skip and skim the rest of the way and I skipped a lot, once I got the gist of the storyline I just got sick and tired of trying to read pages and pages of descriptions, the chapters are short but they go back and forth from the the present, to the past, to a 'report', over and over throughout the entire book, I found that stupid and tedious.
SPOILER---when it came to light that the 'horror' was a tapeworm (I didn't get into the details of how it became genetically altered, I didn't care) I just lost interest but trudged through a little more then it just became boring and stupid
