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Nov 20, 2017JCLLauraH rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
When I think of "The Troop," the word that comes to mind is "eww." Five boys and their scoutmaster are on a small Canadian island when a man arrives by boat. There is something very wrong with him. He is so hungry, he eats everything he can get his hands on (dirt, bugs, his own hair). I had a sense of the fate of the six characters fairly early on (spoiler: none of it is good), but there was something about this book that kept me engaged even when I had to put it down because eww. I think it was the boys in the story, who aren't totally fleshed out but do have enough meat on them (hardy har har) to make me care. If you like horror and are not easily grossed out, give this a read.