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A review by owlyreadsalot
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
4.0
This book gave me nightmares for days! Well, maybe not days, but it did stay fresh in my mind and every time I see "The Nest" it all comes flooding right back in. The creepiness that fills these pages is no joke, so much going on in such a short amount of pages. Like really, I will not be able to be near another nest without thinking "Is there some creepy queen in there trying to knock on our windows, trying to take over a life that isn't theirs??"
"I didn't want to be here. I willed myself to wake up. I told myself it was a dream and I was bored of it and wanted out. But I went nowhere. I turned. Behind me in the tough papery wall was a tunnel, big enough to crawl through, but before I could even bend to peer into it properly, I felt a soft filament caress the back of my head. Despite myself, my body relaxed. A big breath seeped into my lungs. My shoulders dropped. I turned to face the queen."
I really thought being grown, and this being a middle grade book, that I would not be spooked whatsoever. I mean, I shouldn't have been because it's geared towards young kids, but I was sorely mistaken. If I have any issues with this book it's that it shouldn't be that haunting with it being directed towards smaller readers. At least from my end, as a mom, I would not be very fond of my kids picking this up any time soon.
"There's our little darling,' said the queen proudly. It was slimy, with two black dots sunk into the front end of its soggy body. Underneath the eyes it had a kind of hole, and it was eating. All around it, stuck to the nest ceiling, were insects - a dead spider, headless bees, and other things that I couldn't quite recognize, but there was a bit of something red that looked like it had hair on it."
As I kept reading, it kept getting more and more bizarre and even when I was shook by the thought of wasps being some kind of supernatural beings, I couldn't put this book down. Like I said, doubt I'd like my nine and ten year old reading this, but for myself it was very much worth the read. It says a lot when you can have a book be this short in pages and be left with tons of questions and hair raising moments, even after its been long placed down.
"I didn't want to be here. I willed myself to wake up. I told myself it was a dream and I was bored of it and wanted out. But I went nowhere. I turned. Behind me in the tough papery wall was a tunnel, big enough to crawl through, but before I could even bend to peer into it properly, I felt a soft filament caress the back of my head. Despite myself, my body relaxed. A big breath seeped into my lungs. My shoulders dropped. I turned to face the queen."
I really thought being grown, and this being a middle grade book, that I would not be spooked whatsoever. I mean, I shouldn't have been because it's geared towards young kids, but I was sorely mistaken. If I have any issues with this book it's that it shouldn't be that haunting with it being directed towards smaller readers. At least from my end, as a mom, I would not be very fond of my kids picking this up any time soon.
"There's our little darling,' said the queen proudly. It was slimy, with two black dots sunk into the front end of its soggy body. Underneath the eyes it had a kind of hole, and it was eating. All around it, stuck to the nest ceiling, were insects - a dead spider, headless bees, and other things that I couldn't quite recognize, but there was a bit of something red that looked like it had hair on it."
As I kept reading, it kept getting more and more bizarre and even when I was shook by the thought of wasps being some kind of supernatural beings, I couldn't put this book down. Like I said, doubt I'd like my nine and ten year old reading this, but for myself it was very much worth the read. It says a lot when you can have a book be this short in pages and be left with tons of questions and hair raising moments, even after its been long placed down.