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For those who love horror. My review of The Troop 3/21/2014 12:35:44 PM
I haven't read a good horror novel, in a long while. Here's my review of a recent book from a Canadian author that more than satisfied.
A scoutmaster and five teenage boys spend a weekend on tiny Falstaff Island, just off the coast of the province of Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Maritimes. A man shows up unexpectedly in a small motor boat. He is so emaciated that his skin seems to be hanging off his bones like clothes that are too big for him. And he is literally dying of hunger.
The Troop is the creepy, with gusts to downright gross, story of this small group that is infected by whatever has gotten into this strange man. The five very different boys have to fight for survival against this mysterious, fast-acting disease, as well as each other, in a story that has shades of both The Lord of the Flies and the Masque of the Red Death. Definitely not for the faint-hearted, or those with queasy stomachs, it is a tense, yet fun read for those who like their horror up close and personal.
