wow. This took me a while to get through but I am so glad I persevered. The descriptive writing and storytelling was just amazing.
I’m not someone who gets put off food easily but I genuinely couldn’t read this whilst I was trying to eat or drink as it made me feel physically unwell. Never has a book given me such a visceral reaction like that.
I wouldn’t say it ever scared me but it definitely gave me the heeby jeebies!!

I loved how the book was broken up and we were given transcripts etc that did some of the world building and gave us the explanations we needed without it all coming from the boys (which wouldn’t have been possible anyway)

The last book I read was Wilder Girls which is a YA version of this I would say with a lot less information on the contagion. I started The Troop in January and just couldn’t get into it, it didn’t hook me but after reading Wilder Girls, I felt like it was a good time to jump back into this and I’m glad I did!!

4 star read as it didn’t hook me initially but once it did, I couldn’t put it down!