Name: The Hatching
ISBN: 9781501125058

Ezekiel Boone

"The first in a horror trilogy about an ancient race of carnivorous spiders who emerge from the center of the earth after being dormant for over ten thousand years"--

A Novel

The Hatching

An astonishingly inventive and terrifying debut horror novel about the emergence of an ancient race of carnivorous spiders, dormant for ten thousand years but now very much awake. There's a reason we're afraid of spiders... A local guide is leading wealthy tourists through a forest in Peru when a strange, black, skittering mass engulfs him and most of the party. FBI Agent Mike Rich is on a routine stakeout in Minneapolis when he's suddenly called by the director himself to investigate a mysterious plane crash. A scientist studying earthquakes in India registers an unprecedented pattern in local seismic readings. The US president, her defence and national security advisers and her chief of staff are dumped into crisis mode when China "accidentally" drops a nuclear bomb on a desolate region of its own country. As such unsettling occurrences mount, the president's old friend (and her chief of staff's ex-wife), spider expert Melanie Guyer, receives a box at her lab at American University that contains an ancient egg unearthed at a South American dig. So begins The Hatching, the hair-raising saga of a single week in which an ancient, frighteningly predatory species of spider re-emerges in force. When the unusual egg in Melanie Guyer's lab begins to vibrate and crack, she finds herself at the epicentre of this apocalyptic natural disaster. Working closely with her ex-husband and his very powerful boss, she has to find some way to stem the brutal tide of man-eating arachnids.

Spider Trilogy Book One

Jackie Cunningham

Ryan Mateyk

There was a Kobo sale on both this and the sequel so I decided to go ahead and just buy both because who doesn't love some gnarly creature feature fiction??? I've read about killer sharks, killer rats, killer dogs... but never before about killer spiders.
(view spoiler)[This gif is a perfect depiction of how these spiders breed (hide spoiler)]
It was definitely fun and a quick read but took quite awhile for the action to get going, and once it started, the book just ended abruptly, framing the story for the sequel. Still, I'll be starting the sequel right away hoping for more action and blood and guts that I love.

CREEPY!! THis book was just creepy and intriguing enough to not make me ever want to put it down. A quick read and well written. Can't wait to read the next one. Just an amazing creative sci fi story.

Chantale

Most horror books and movies don't scare me or even creep me out but this book sure did even though I am not scared of spiders .

This book has a few different point of views but it wasn't confusing at all. It is very well written and even though it creeped me out I just couldn't stop reading. 

I highly recommend this book.

The Hatching A Novel

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