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The Hatching
The Hatching: A Novel | Ezekiel Boone
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An apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroismaddictive. Publishers Weekly Its been too long since someone reminded us that spiders are not just to be feared, but also may well spell doom for mankind. Fortunately, Ezekiel Boone has upped the ante on arachnophobia. This is a fresh take on classic horror, thoroughly enjoyable and guaranteed to leave your skin crawling. Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead An astonishingly inventive and terrifying debut novel about the emergence of an ancient species, dormant for over a thousand years, and now on the march. Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government accidentally drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out. The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.
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Lizpixie
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#ScarathlonPhotoChallenge #Day23 #Spider I know I‘ve used this one before, but when you say spider, this is the first book that comes to mind. If you‘re an arachnophobe, do not read this!🕷️ #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 6pts

Clwojick Eeeeek! 🖤🫣 1y
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AmandaBlaze
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Lizpixie
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#AutumnPlease #Day2 #Cobwebs This book not only has cobwebs on the cover, it‘s full of them in the story. Definitely a HUGE TW for arachnophobia, my skin was crawling the whole time I was reading it🕷️🕸️🕷️ #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 6pts

Eggs Perfect 🕷️🖤🕸️ 1y
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throwmeabook
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Panpan

Who would say no to creepy killer spiders, global Except for a variety of descriptions of how the creepy spiders are attacking and random relationship tidbits of the characters, nothing else happens. This book is part of a trilogy so the author naturally leaves something for the other books in the series, but for goodness sake you need to give the reader some story/character development. Disappointing. ⭐️⭐️ #doublespin

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 2y
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mollyrotondo
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Panpan

⭐️ This was my November #bookspin No. 19 pick. It was just not for me. Most of the female characters had one trait: horny. The women had no character depth. And the invasion of spiders happens so slowly that urgency and fear doesn‘t come through. I won‘t be reading the second one.

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!!! 2y
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SpookyMazeOfBooks
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A re read for me
Rating: 5
Square used for : monster ( anything that's not vampire, werewolf, or zombie , demon.) So I went with
Spiders, to find out how they work you're just going to have to check out the trilogy for your self. Note : don't read in the dark,

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Lizpixie
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#LittensDressedInBlood #Day10 #BookPhobias Giant spiders. Enough said.😬

BookBelle84 Loved these books! 3y
MidnightBookGirl Spiders are pretty terrifying! I'm trying to overcome my fear- there's these cute spiders I follow on TikTok, Cackle by Rachel Harrison has a delightful spider side kick, but they still scare the crap out of me. 3y
MidnightBookGirl Spiders are pretty terrifying! I'm trying to overcome my fear- there's these cute spiders I follow on TikTok, Cackle by Rachel Harrison has a delightful spider side kick, but they still scare the crap out of me. 3y
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TheNeverendingTBR
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I read three quarters of this and thought it was a dud, nothing much happened and the characters weren't written well, the location around the world kept changing to introduce more characters - I started to get confused about who was who...

Despite the weak characterization, the authors writing style and his creation of a very unique foe makes this one hell of a page turner.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3849758833 ⬅️ full review

bookishbitch The cover definitely works as a hook. Not for arachnaphobs like me, but for horror fans for sure. It's so creepy!! 4y
MsMelissa I loved this trilogy. 4y
TheNeverendingTBR @MsMelissa I remember you saying it was really good when I first posted about it, going to start the second book tonight. The last 50 pages or so of The Hatching were superb! 👌 4y
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Crazycatperson
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My total for the month! Thank you @StayCurious for hosting this! It was a lot of fun!
#scarathlon #teamharkness

StayCurious Great job! Thanks for playing! 4y
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BookBelle84
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Day 2 #20series20days #top20series
This is a horror suspense series about the world being taken over by spiders. Told in a World War Z style, really creepy and greatly entertaining.

Nute A takeover by spiders? No way, man!😬 4y
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Addison_Reads
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Do not read this if spiders scare you. I'm not afraid of spiders, and yet, I still feel like things are crawling on me after finishing this book. 😲

It was creepy, a bit unbelievable, but an excellent distraction from the current state of our world. The ending leaves you hanging, but apparently there's another book.

Lesanne Thanks for the warning, I cannot stand spiders! 😱 5y
JenniferEgnor I‘m quite fond of spiders 🕸🕷🖤 5y
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BeansPage
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I will not be recommending this one.

Please read my full review here:
https://thereadingmermaidsreviews.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-hatching-by-ezekie...

3pts for #TeamStoker 🧟‍♀️ #Scarathlon

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BeansPage
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My final stats for #24B4Monday
I'm good with it 😉 😂😂😂

Thank you all so much for participating in the having a wonderful time with us! We will see you again in October 🎃

Thank you to my wonderful co-hosts
@Andrew65 & @jb72
You guys are amazing and I couldn't do it without you! ❤️

SconsinBookyBadger See you in October! 🎃 5y
Andrew65 Sensational! 🥳🥳🥳🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏 You are a great leader, more than happy to support you. (edited) 5y
Andrew65 @AnansiGirl October‘s Readathon will be with us oh so soon. 5y
BeansPage @Andrew65 awe sweetie! 🤗 You're so sweet ❤️ 5y
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BeansPage
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Here are my four extra books that I'm adding to my stack for this challenge. My challenge will not be to just read 1 book a week but to read 1 book a week on top of my usual stack. Everyone who reads more than 1 book a week is more than welcome to join us in this challenge this way. 📚😊📚

#BookAWeekChallenge

StayCurious Are these books you've been wanting to read for awhile? Is that why you are adding them on top of your usual stack? 5y
BeansPage @StayCurious that's exactly what they are. My usual stack consists of books that I'm reading for publishing houses and authors but I'm at my max right now through December. I'm adding these books on to see if I can actually get to them this month for the challenge. 😉 5y
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MatschMomma
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Interesting premise.
What I liked is that it was something completely different but the same. Yes it's an apocalyptic book... But not your usual bad guy....it's spiders. Lots and lots and lots of really bad spiders.

Looking forward to book 2.

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JPeterson
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Happy Valentine‘s Day, Littens!

I‘m in love with this #cupidgoespostal package from @collegecatlady ❤️
Thank you, Crystal! The books are perfect! I can‘t wait to start The Hatching; I‘ve been eyeing that for way too long. 🖤

wellreadredhead I‘m so glad you like it!! Happy V Day! 6y
MommyOfTwo The Hatching is good and creepy! I haven‘t gotten to read the sequels yet. 6y
LeahBergen Happy Birthday! 📚📚📚 6y
JPeterson @LeahBergen Thank you! 6y
JPeterson @MommyOfTwo I can‘t wait to start it! 6y
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MommyOfTwo
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Well that was disturbing. I didn‘t realize there was more than one book when I started so I will have to look for the next one sometime. My only issue with this book was the way it jumped around between different people. I wish a few would have been cut out. But overall I enjoyed it.

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MommyOfTwo
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Getting some reading in and a foot soak while my son takes a bath. 🛀

Reviewsbylola I like your style! 6y
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MommyOfTwo
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I already don‘t like spiders, this book is not going to help that! 🕷

AmyG You couldn‘t pay me to read this. 😬 6y
JoScho @AmyG same!!!! 6y
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Onceuponatime
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Definitely signing up for this! Thanks @TheReadingMermaid ...looks super fun for us horror lovers! #horrorgoespostalbookclub #hgpbc

BeansPage 🤘🏻😄🤘🏻 6y
BeansPage I forgot to ask if you're able to post internationally? If not that's okay I just need to know. 6y
Onceuponatime @TheReadingMermaid I‘d like to just mail within the US please. Thanks! 6y
BeansPage No problem 😉 6y
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JacintaMCarter
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#2018Book84
I've never really had a problem with spiders before, but after reading this book I will definitely freak out a little every time I see one.

thereadingowlvina I almost bought this one at the bookstore earlier! 6y
Dogearedcopy Nope, nope, nopity, nope! 6y
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originaldruider
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Excellent, fast-paced read to while away the time while waiting at airports, bus stations, funeral homes, royal weddings or any football match featuring Argentina. Not good enough to make me spend money on the sequels but if someone gifted me them, I would read.

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Daughter-of-words
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I have very mixed feelings about this book. It started off good, had a good premise, a few likable characters, gory bits😉 I didn‘t like that the story jumped around to different characters/storylines. I think I would have liked it better if it just followed a handful of characters and gave a more in-depth look at the spiders🕷🕷🕷/5...I will not be finishing the series

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Daughter-of-words
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I‘ve just about had it with this book. This is basically how each character is introduced 👆 Please give me more man eating spiders and less about each characters sexual history🙄

mollyrotondo I‘m listening to this one now and really struggling with all this too. The women don‘t have much characterization except always wanting sex or men always wanting to have sex with them. And it has nothing to do with the story. Did you ever finish it? I‘m considering bailing but some people said the last 50 pages are good 😂 2y
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Lizpixie
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#TuneIntoNovember #day3 #Overpowered Playing catchup already, there's so many great photo challenges, I feel like I need to do them all but then I get really behind like last month and give up. So I'm keeping it to my fave 3. In The Hatching, the world is being overpowered by giant flesh eating spiders. This book made my skin crawl, j kept thinking something was crawling on me & freaking out. Plus the nightmares were awful. Not for arachnophobics!

Robothugs 😳 Totally don‘t think I could read this! 7y
Lizpixie @Robothugs @Cinfhen I have the sequel Skitter in my tbr mountain, not sure if I can handle more eight legged creepy crawlies! 7y
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tiffanyreadsbooks
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Current read.

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NatalieR
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I don‘t read very many apocalyptic-type books... I enjoyed this one about bizarre people eating spiders. I‘m looking forward to reading book #2. 🕷🕸🕷🕸

DrexEdit Spiders! Nope! *shudder* 😂 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Love your decorations!! 7y
NatalieR @BarbaraTheBibliophage Thanks! 😊 Halloween is my favorite holiday. 7y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Mine too, but I'm not the decorating type. Love yours though! 7y
BekahB I love the Halloween decor! I‘ve been too lazy to get mine out but now you‘ve inspired me to decorate. 🎃 7y
NatalieR @BekahB Thanks! 😊 Enjoy decorating! I‘m touched to have inspired you. 🎃👻🕸🍁 7y
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BookBelle84
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TricksyTails This is awesomely creepy! 7y
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Lizpixie
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#HallowReads #day4 #CreepyCrawlies Reading this book gave me the heebie jeebies the whole time. I had goosebumps & the feeling of little feet crawling all over me. If you can't guess, I'm arachnophobic. Just the thought of this premise coming true gives me anxiety. Major seismic activity is recorded in India & other parts of Asia. Then the spiders appear.😱🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷CreepyCrawlyX1,000,000 #spidersarenotok

Andrea4 Well, that's disturbing!! 7y
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LauraJ
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This reads more like an action flick than a horror novel. And that‘s okay because it‘s fun. The whole thing about who is/was/will be sleeping with who is unnecessary, unless it‘s important for the sequel. One character goes on about a woman he had sex with and is planning to have sex with again until she dumps him via text. Zero impact on the plot. Overall, the main story is good enough that I plan to read the sequel.

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LauraJ
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So, nuclear bombs, killer spiders, and the people responsible for saving the world can‘t think about anything except boning each new character they meet? Otherwise, I‘m enjoying this.

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LauraJ
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Bah! The first 15% of this audiobook is who‘s sleeping with who. Got bored, fell asleep and...
Not a good idea for a bedtime story. Or maybe it was the cat sleeping on my head, drooling that woke me up.

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KatesBuecherregal
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Ob dieses Buch bei meiner Spinnenangst die richtige Wahl ist? Momentan auf Seite 26 und bisher lässt es sich super lesen. Ich bin gespannt ?

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 9! #PhillyMeetUp #bookswap edition! Proudly displayed by @Yossarian ! A bit violent, a lot of gruesome, and fun, fun, fun! There's some weird anomalies happening geologically. Turns out, it's spiders! And not just any kind of spider, but one the world hasn't seen for awhile, with a particularly nasty streak. 🕷🕷🕷 #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

monkeygirlsmama Creepy! 7y
rubyslippersreads 😱🕷🕷🕷 7y
BookBabe Nopenopenope! 7y
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Yossarian
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Thank you @jess ! Don't know if it's a great book but it's a great cover!

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AlexMcWilliams
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Mehso-so

Premise of the book was fantastic. I thought that it would be absolutely killer as I'm a sucker for any kind of book where an animal or insect is the threat or plot device, however, this one fell a little short. I'm not a fan of books that read like television series or end of cliff hangers like a television season ending. This was one of those types of books. It was good for what it was but that's about it!

DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy! 🎉📚👍😀Hope you enjoy it here! 7y
AlexMcWilliams @DebinHawaii thanks so much for the welcome! I love this app in contrast to GoodReads already. Amazing premise! 7y
DebinHawaii @AlexMcWilliams I know what you mean. Goodreads is better for tracking/stacking but Litsy is the best. The people are amazing on here and there are lots of great things going on to get involved it--it becomes addicting and it will build your #TBR to epic proportions! 😆📚📚📚So jump in and have fun and ask any questions you have. 👍 7y
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Lizpixie
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#JuneTunz #day26 #Crawling Giant mutant spiders that are taking over the world. 🎶Crawling in my skin🎶 Ugh.😬

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I just bought this but am too afraid to read it 8y
Cinfhen I heard this is MAJOR CREEPY 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 8y
MommyOfTwo Sounds interesting I will have to find a copy 8y
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My_novel_obsession
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I haven't read this one but based on the description by my husband - 1) it will work for the insects prompt and 2) I will never ever read it 😱#insects #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading

Dolly It sounds horrifying. 😱 8y
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Lizpixie
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#JuneBookBugs #day3 #Insects I know, I know. Spiders are arachnids, not insects, but it's the closest I've got to a book about insects. Unless you want me to describe the scene with a maggot filled body in one of Karin Slaughters novels! Nobody wants that image in their heads before bed.🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

RealLifeReading That cover! 8y
Hooked_on_books I would actually prefer the maggots to spiders. 😂 But then I've picked maggots out of someone's wound, so they don't bother me. They actually clean wounds nicely! 😬 8y
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Amanda23
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I devoured this book like the flesh eating spiders it's about. Fast paced and creepy with a great range of characters. I can't wait for the second book!!
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vivastory A similar one i recommend is 8y
Amanda23 @vivastory Thanks for the suggestions! 8y
BookFreakOut Minecraft spider! 😁🕷 8y
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Amanda23
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Shudder shudder
So creepy but really good 🕸

asiriusreader No no no. Just read one sentence and now I know I can never read this!!! 😱🕷 8y
CouronneDhiver Yikes! 8y
underthebelljar Ewww 🤢🕷 8y
Letmetakeashelfie Nope. Noooooope. No thank you. 8y
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Aluciddreamstate
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2/5⭐️. Uck. I found this book pretentious. I didn't like any of the characters, except the federal agent, and even that was a stretch. I did not need sexual innuendos in every chapter, "golden showers?" Really? I have checked out the sequel and I may attempt but we will see. The spiders would have made a great story, minus all the characters in the book

WarpedSweetness I'm...I'm a little curious how a reference to a golden shower came about, maybe? 8y
Aluciddreamstate @WarpedSweetness it was well placed in the story as an off handed comment between members of a military party. But I can only handle so many sexual references before it feels like the author is trying to hard. Then I eye roll 🙄 and my husband comments 😁😬🤤 8y
WarpedSweetness Well at least it was well placed. I can only handle so many sexual references also, before it starts feeling like one of the trashy romances that are my guilty pleasure. I read them out loud to fiancee. Lol 8y
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Aluciddreamstate
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A spider 🕷 just came out of his nose 👃
I needed something a little less heavy emotionally I not sure this was it. But I kinda like it 🤘🏻🤡

britt_brooke 😱😱😱 8y
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Amanda23
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Eeekkkk!! Just delivered today.🕸🕷

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Thndrstd
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Sometimes you just want to read something about carnivorous spiders eating everybody. I really didn‘t find the characters that interesting. Their predicament is interesting, and there are good creepy moments, some are clearly borrowed from other, better books and films. Unfortunately, [spoiler alert] the book does not conclude as much as just stop.
[I received an advanced e-galley through Netgalley.]

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Ksvz
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2017 #24 Scary Audio Take the movie Arachnophobia and mate it with 2012 or Independence Day and you end up with the book. As I never read the blurb and only as I entered it into Litsy did I realize that this book 1, my initial disappointment with the ending has been mollified. Well written enough to make your skin crawl. Quick and easy read if you can tolerate the vivid creapy crawlies.

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SeeJaneRead
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TFW you try and escape from the fact that your new President and his administration is intent on destroying everything you hold dear and making a mockery of this nation by reading a dumb, kind of fun book about killer spiders but the universe is like lol nope 😭