Skitter
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Average rating3.8
Ezekiel Boone continues his shivery and wildly entertaining homage to classic horror novels with Skitter, the second book in his The Hatching series. There's a reason we're afraid of spiders... Ezekiel Boone's astonishingly inventive debut, The Hatching, was a terrifying account of an apocalyptic week in which an ancient breed of carnivorous spiders woke from their 10,000-year slumber and caused carnage around the world. Then suddenly they started to die in waves, leaving shattered human survivors to take a deep, relieved breath, and begin to clean up the mess and rebuild their lives. But spider expert Melanie Guyer, and the crisis team the US president and her chief of staff has assembled around her, are pretty sure that this isn't the last they've seen of these eight-legged predators. Something else is coming, something connected to the eerie stashes of glowing white eggs the spiders left in places like LA's Staples Center--something very very bad. Something that will test the capacity of the entire human race to survive.
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3 primary books#2 in The Hatching
The Hatching is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Ezekiel Boone.
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A slight improvement over the first book, though it still shares the same problems. The story is interesting but never actually scary, and there are just too many characters to ever really feel like you've gotten to know anyone. Still, I'm intrigued to find out where things go - and I think the final book might finally get down to the horror I was hoping for when I started this series.
Again, a super fun read. Less action, but no less interesting. Here, we are in the waiting game and I've really liked how each character reacted to the situation. Still love those characters by the way. Love how they interact with each other. Must say that my favorites are still the quatuor (well, quintett if we count the dog!) from Desperation, and the trio from Scotland. But honestly, there's no characters that I don't like.
Strong moments: When the president ordered the Spanish Prococol (I've got chills!). The snippets from minor characters whom we mostly won't hear again (sometimes we see hope, other times the opposite). The last chapters.
Seriously, very good story, captivating with bits of humour, action and touching moments.
This is total B Movie nonsense, but hey B Movie nonsense can be a whole lot of fun!
