The Deep by Nick Cutter
The dog dies. Horribly. It will make you sad. I checked online to see if the dog died as soon as I read there was a dog, because that’s just something you need to check for with horror stories. I kept reading, hoping the story payoff would be worth it. It was not. I love horror stories, it’s definitely my favorite genre. I have a pretty high tolerance for gore and horrible things happening to people, though I draw the line at like, the insane […]
The Troop by Nick Cutter
Pretty much since I first got an E-Reader, Kobo has been trying to get me to read Nick Cutter. When my E-Reader broke and I switched to the audiobook platform Kobo offered, it continued to push Cutter on me. My love of survival stories, post apocalyptic narratives, and zombie tales is probably what made the algorithm think I’d like this book, but this was not my cup of tea. Do I want to listen to the gory butchering of a cat, or two boys trying […]
The Troop by Nick Cutter
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I think I’ll go and eat worms! Big fat juicy ones. Eensie weensy squeensy ones. See how they wiggle and squirm! I will never again see that rhyme the same way. This book is bloody disgusting. A foul, body-horror, visceral experience usually reserved for John Carpenter movies. I was utterly unprepared to be so repulsed by the mere written word. The story centers on a troop of five 14 year old boy-scouts, their honourable scoutmaster, and a (very very […]
