![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Kim and Melanie got a few more chapters afforded to them than I think they necessarily needed and their voices weren't quite as distinct as I would have liked. Shotgun and Gordo, a gay/straight survivalist duo were my favorite characters, and there just aren't enough chapters with them. I had a minor issue with a couple of POV characters being underdeveloped, or underutilized. That being said, there was a hell of a hook for the second book, so I suppose Boone gets the last laugh there! It's almost like watching the first 50 minutes of a Michael Bay film or other disaster movie only for the credits to roll before we've even gotten the inevitable scene of the statue of liberty getting toppled to really show the audience how bad things have become. The only problem I had with it is that it the ending sort of lands with a thud as Boone implies that the worst is yet to come. I could easily envision this story being translated into a blockbuster format. Told in short and alternating POV chapters, Boone uses the viewpoints of connected characters across the globe to give his readers a front row seat at the start of the pandemic as things quickly move from bad, to worse, to horrifying. Lord knows I'll be giving any spiders I come across in my house an even wider berth for awhile after reading this book! There were a few disturbing revelations about the way these spiders work that left me seriously grossed out and looking over my shoulder while I was reading for any sort of creepy crawlies that might have been trying to invade my bubble. One great thing about this novel is the way Boone subverts your expectations when it comes to the spiders. It was with complete trepidation that I even picked this book up at all, but I said I wanted a few scary reads for October, and Ezekiel Boone's novel definitely fits the bill.īoone builds off of all that we as human beings find so unnerving about spiders in the first place and cranks it up to an eleven in this apocalyptic thriller where the end comes not in meteor strikes or volcanic explosions, but in waves of black-bodied, carnivorous spiders that are hungry for human blood. Ever since I was a kid and a large wolf spider ended up hitching a ride on my sweater in my parent's woodshed, I've been pretty much terrified of them. What is it about spiders that strikes fear in so many people? Is it the legs, or their hairy bodies, or their ability to attack with a sneaky drop-shot from a hidden web in a corner or on a ceiling? I think it's probably a bit of all of the above for me. "You think because you kill one spider in your bathroom, that there aren't others hiding somewhere in your house?" ![]()
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