***WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD***
Oh my gods where do I begin? The synopsis of the book is spiders come to kill everyone. Yeah that's pretty much it. First off, I am really pissed at this book. Nowhere on this book or inside it does it mention the fact that this is a trilogy and this is the first book in that trilogy until you are finished with the book and see that there is a prologue to the next book. But I guess I should have guessed it sooner when the book just kept on going and never got to a resolution point toward the end. Stupid me! 🤦🏼♀️ The constant changing of point of views from character to character are more than annoying. With a small cast, writing like this is doable however, this book has a HUGE cast of characters, all of which run around acting like stupid, horny teenagers (even the female President of the United States). But seriously every chapter reads like a prologue and it's like holy f&$#@ing sh#@$ are you kidding me? Another introduction to this mess? And on to the cast... these are all non fleshed-out one-dimensional characters whose only background information we get is who they've slept with who they are sleeping with or who they want to sleep with. Nothing else. Not to mention even for a thriller that is borderlined on horror/monster B-movie type genre, these are some of the stupidest characters I have ever come across in a book. At the end of the book someone mentions pouring gasoline on the spider's nest and calling it a f@#$ing day and the other characters just shrug it off. WTF? 🤦🏼♀️ The spiders were the only decent character in the story however, they didn't even get a damn backstory. Nothing is ever explained in this book at all. Why the hell are there seismic ripples underneath India? What could the spiders have been eating down there in the tunnels under the Earth? Why exactly are they all hatching now? NO ONE KNOWS!!! I would have to assume that things get better fleshed-out and explained in the future sequels of this book, however honestly I'm not going to invest my time in it to find out. And you know what? I could forgive all of it... ALL OF IT! If only it wasn't such a bore to read. I love B-rate monster movies and books but this one really took the cake on stupidity and poor execution. Sad but true. It's almost as if the author was trying SO HARD to get himself some movie rights but failed miserably. I don't usually do this and I hope I haven't offended anyone with my crude language but this book really pissed me off. I will not be recommending this one.
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