Not a fanI didn't like The Troop by Nick Cutter, which is one of the grossest horror books, and it has like parasitic stuff crawling out of body parts.
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The troop (2014)
Others: Leaning negative Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. This year, something is waiting in the darkness. Something wicked.... An intruder stumbles upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine....
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- 9781668019467
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- 368 pages
Genres: thriller
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Not a fan
Loved itwhich is a great story of a group of Boy Scouts who are camping out in the Prince Edward Island so you have an idea of that Countryside in Atlantic Canada but also the horror element as things go horribly wrong
Not a fannot my least favorite book that I read last year that would have to go to the troop by Nick Cutter because that book was just way too gross for me