The Troop

Somehow, this title keeps jumping onto the “read”-shelf, whenever I try to put in onto the “Did not finish”-shelf.

Admittedly, I'm very close to finishing it, but I haven't been reading in it for a loooooooong time, so would probably have to go back a bit to remember some of the story and that ain't gonna happen.

It started out promisingly enough with weird going-ons interspersed with interviews and articles about what happened before the unfortunate group ended up on the remote island.
But quickly I felt that it was the same over and over again. I didn't mind the gore at all, some of it actually got under my skin (no pun intended), I didn't even mind the animal cruelty, animal lover as I am, as it's just fiction. But I had a hard time getting invested in the characters and - quite frankly - telling them apart.
Also, I found myself not caring about who lived or died or if ANY of them lived (which some of the “flashforward” interviews suggest that at least one does). For a story to work you have to have someone to root for. This is the same reason I didn't like Hostel, because the main characters were all jack-asses.

It's a rare thing for me to not finish a book, but I will give the rest of this one a pass.
Maybe, someday, when I'm hard-pressed for reading material, I will finish it.