Bücher mit dem Tag "spiders"

ACHTUNG! Erster Teil der LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD-REIHE 🌃 Gesamthaft war der Anfang der Reihe nicht übel.Es gab immer wieder lustige und auch spannende Momente.Aber leider eben auch (dafür gab es einen Stern abgezogen) sehr viele langweilige Hänger,wenn auch nicht für lange.Es war ein Auf und Ab.Die Handlung hat definitiv noch Steigerungspotenzial,wobei das ja beim ersten Teil einer Reihe nicht gravierend ist.Die Charaktere fand ich unterhaltsam,lustig und auch spannend.Da freue ich mich schon auf den zweiten Teil.Da nicht extrem viel passiert und es daher nicht allzuviel zu sagen gibt,kann man anschliessend noch den Klappentext für inhaltliche Informationen lesen.Von mir gibts vier Sterne für dieses Buch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.KLAPPENTEXT : All her life,Ashlyn has been tormented by voices from the past.To end the nightmare ,she has come to Budapest seeking help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities,not knowing she'll be swept into the arms of Maddox,their most dangerous member - a man trapped in a hell of his own.Neither can resist teh instant hunger that calms their torments...and ignites an irresistible passion.But every heated touch and burning kiss will edge them closer to destruction - and a soul-shattering test of love...

This was a perfect creepy-crawly story to read. The author did not just play around with some simple spiders gone astray, but invented a very deadly, almost unstoppable species hybrid. With that, he created an apocalypse scenario where millions of bugs invade a community, whole houses are being cocooned in spiderwebs and the residents serve as hatching grounds. Also, he did not shy away from sacrificing even pets and children, which was especially gruesome and hard to digest. The main characters were easy to relate to, so their fate hit even harder, and even the ending did not cut some slack but delivered a really nasty gut-puncher. Needless to say, this book is not suited for agoraphobic or  squeamish readers: creature-feature at its finest!

You don't like spiders and fear they will be crawling all over the pages of this book? Don't let that keep you from reading it, though, as it is much more than just an arachnid creature feature. Though the story does start with an unfortunate incident, leading to an eight-legged lodger in Clive's head, it soon turns into kind of a psychological thriller with a dose of humor.

The characters are multi-layered and not too likable, which makes it much more interesting to follow them along. As it turns out, at the end the spider was one of the characters I liked most, simply because it was the most honest in both its intentions and actions (the other was a little girl).

While Clive, the main character, seemed decent enough at first, just your regular shy and unremarkable guy, I couldn't shake the feeling there was also something off about him that made him not so nice at all. Same could be said about his friend Morgan.

At the end I recognized that the title may not only refer to the arachnid resident in Clive's head, but also to the secret thoughts hidden within each of the characters. Once revealed, they turned out to be pretty creepy as well, reminding me once again of one of my favorite sayings: the real monsters are mostly human.

(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)