The Troop

I'm honestly not sure why I kept reading after the cat scene, the point where I went from generally bored to disgusted, maybe it was the writing for the first few pages that I really liked or maybe it was just the desire to not DNF 2 books in the same week?
There are actual horror aspects to this book and the prose is nice but that's about all the redeeming value I can find here in the face of the unnecessary amount of just gross. I'm not a generally squeamish person but it all felt very gratuitous here. I think the sexual aspects of the book were just the worst, realistically speaking I know young teens experience arousal and whatnot but there's something particularly uncomfortable about the way it is approached here. The best way I can describe it is this book felt like horror in the same way as A Serbian Film did but in a way it did feel more gratuitous than A Serbian Film did and part of me hopes that the gratuitous nature of it all was somehow the point and the true horror of the story.