Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip; a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder – shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry – stumbles upon their campsite, Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. An inexplicable horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival that will pit the troop against the elements, the infected … and one another.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldOPM
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    3 months ago

    Not the first conflicted review i read about this book. What didn’t work for you?

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      3 months ago

      Between the adult not being an adult and just losing his shit and the boys going full Lord of the flies it was just a bit much happening all at once with an urgency I didn’t feel was warranted

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        3 months ago

        Ah ok! So unrealistic characters, and everything goes way too bad, way roo quickly. I get it. 👌