Writing style
Atmospheric · Descriptive · Direct
Apple BooksThe troop
Horror
- Print length
- 358 pagesGallery Books, 2014
Description
Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a boys’ troop into the Canadian wilderness for its annual camping weekend. The familiar trip is disrupted when a gaunt, pale, ravenous stranger appears at their campsite, behaving almost like a wild animal. He carries a bioengineered horror that spreads rapidly, transforming the outing into a struggle against an escalating threat. As conditions worsen, the boys are driven toward increasingly extreme acts. The Troop builds its suspense around the collision between an ordinary youth expedition and a sinister presence waiting in the darkness, following Riggs and the boys as they confront a danger that tests how far they will go to survive.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Fast
Tone
Dark · Frightening · Tense · Unsettling
Structure
Fragmented · Linear
Focus
Atmosphere · Character · Plot
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781476717715, 9781476717722, 9781476717753
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