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challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Reading this book was like watching The Human Centipede for the first time as a 16 year old in the middle of the night. In that way it’s probably the most scary book I’ve read.
The gore and the grosses and pure horror of the killer worms is done so perfectly you can feel one crawling on your ear as you read. The snippets of other media as exposition I loved, the boys you really come to root for (some of them), there’s excerpts from court hearings or newspapers throughout that drip feed the plot which I loved. Overall, the semi-realness of a bio-weapon worm was so realistic I can’t look at them the same ever again. Very unsettling, and I’m spooked forever now…
The gore and the grosses and pure horror of the killer worms is done so perfectly you can feel one crawling on your ear as you read. The snippets of other media as exposition I loved, the boys you really come to root for (some of them), there’s excerpts from court hearings or newspapers throughout that drip feed the plot which I loved. Overall, the semi-realness of a bio-weapon worm was so realistic I can’t look at them the same ever again. Very unsettling, and I’m spooked forever now…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail