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The Nest

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I have only two words for anyone who likes a good horror / insect / scary as heck book. READ IT. READ IT. READ IT. One of the most spine chilling reads of all time. Quite Frankly it is the most memerable and well writen pieces of Horror Art I have ever read. Stephen King eat your heart out. The only other writer i have ever read which comes close is Peter Benchley.

This is one of the creepiest horror books ever written. An entire community on an island is being slowly massacred by giant, vicious, mutated cockroaches. The description of people, including children, being eaten alive is so gut-turning. This is a very good book, very scary and very realistic. The writer's description into how cockroaches live and what they are capable of is frightening. Buy it.

THE NEST by Gregory A. Douglas isn't for the faint of heart; the deaths are described in very gruesome detail, even for a horror novel. Just warning you.

Anyway, this is a pretty good "nature gone mad" book. The various inhabitants of the island of Yalkie are drawn pretty realistically and no one really feels like a stock character or archetype. Suspense sequences are done nicely. There's a sex sequence (well, sort of) that seems a bit random, but otherwise, everything flows well.

This book is a bit of an odd hybrid of a 50's giant monster movie (the general pace and narrative flow) and an 80's slasher film (sexual content, gruesome deaths, even a killer-isn't-quite-dead-yet scare). Also, there seems to be a slight right-wing spin, a mild conservative twist, but not enough to really bother me (who's about as left-wing as you can get).

Gorgeous prose and exceptionally creepy descriptions make this book one of my favorite surprise discoveries. The writing quality of this author clearly displays a well educated man, and without question, a very talented storyteller. His vision and vocabulary is crisp and clean, submerging the reader deep into his very dark territory.

This book contains some brutal, unrelenting violence against characters you come to care for, and the author dispatches them in graphic detail without an ounce of remorse. This is definitely something I don't see every day with your standard horror book - especially mainstream authors on the bestseller list. Perhaps this is the tradeoff. Write predictable and comfortable stories and sell lots of books, or be original and sell fewer.

The atmosphere is very rich and you feel as if you are stranded on the island along with the characters. Although I did find some of the characters a bit underdeveloped, this book gets a very enthusiastic recommendation from me. Fans of James Herberts' "Rats" will be in killer-critter heaven.