Their bites are more than deadly…The small town near the Everglades was supposed to offer Rachel and her son a fresh start. Instead it offered the start of a nightmare, when an unknown breed of flies migrated through the area, leaving painful bites in their wake. The media warned people to stay inside until the swarm passed. But the flies didn’t leave. And then the radios and TVs went silent. … went silent. That’s when the spiders came. Spiders that could spin a deadly web large enough to engulf an entire house overnight. Spiders that left stripped bones behind as they multiplied. Spiders that, like the flies, sought hungrily for tender flesh…through Violet Eyes.
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I was always afraid of spiders before I read this book; but was terrified of them after I read it!
Wow! This was a creepy crawly and bloody, icky mess!
A little backstory:
Rachel and her son, Eric are trying to start over in the small town of Passanatte which is located not far from the Everglades in Florida. Things get real strange with the bug population in Passanatte as spiders start weaving webs along with flies buzzing all over the town to the point where it seems there are more bugs than humans.
Rachel begins to wonder if the spiders and flies have anything to do with her neighbor, Billy who lives across the street as he just survived spider attacks on an island he had visited recently, but though she wonders about it, Rachel just shrugs it off as she just thinks it is a coincidence.
Rachel ends up meeting a forest ranger (Terry) who eventually becomes her boyfriend and when the town seems to become overrun with the spider invasion is when Terry, Rachel and her son, Eric learn they have to fight for what they want even against nature gone wild as when the spiders are hungry they are going to find whatever food source they can latch onto!
Where did the spiders and flies come from? Why have they taken over the town? Does the town survive the bug invasion? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book!
This was a fast paced bug crawling action story that just kept me on my toes as there was so much creepy bug eating going on that this book literally kept me awake nights reading it! Loved the characters as well as I became attached to them and could feel what they were feeling as they were enduring the bug invasion!
The author, John Everson, not only brought the characters to life on the pages he also brought to life the bugs as the visual aspects of the story was like watching a movie unfold before my eyes! Giving this book five “creepy crawling” stars!
Once you pick-up this book you’ll never want to set it down. After reading this you’ll have a new fear of flies and spiders. This is a really good read.
this book really grabbed me…I could feel my skin crawling..the ending was unexpected.
pretty original. Kept me guessing.
Good read, kind of graphic at times.
i don’t creep out easily but this left me a little freaked. I found at an easy read and kept my attention.
I’ve read every book by John Everson. I love his books!!
I enjoyed this book—it is a frightening premise, but all too believable.
Scary, icky, and tragic. With, a little sexy on the side. It was fun to read.
I read this book in two days. It was incredibly good and different and disturbing. Like most, I neither like flies and abhor spiders. This book just made me look at both of them in a whole new way. The storyline was very clever and the ending was bone-chilling.
Good story; lousy ending.
Absurd, unrealistic behavior, gratuitous, crude sex scenes – nothing to recommend about this book.
In some circumstances, character behavior is unrealistic…but still entertaining.
This was very disappointing – I love horror books, but this was so obvious in every way! After the first chapter, which was actually pretty good, I knew exactly what would happen. Then when the ex-husband of one of the main characters came into the story, that was the end of my finishing the book! Not finishing a book is not something that I ever do, but there was nothing left in this story for me to be interested in anymore!
Didn’t like the ending. It was a let down.
Couldn’t get further than the first chapter. Biologically absurd.
If you are a 13 year old boy this book is for you. With such breathless lines as, “He could never seem to keep his hands off her tits and she loved that actually.” Or how about this thrilling line, “Until something bit her where she only let Billy’s teeth roam.”
The characters are shallow and underdeveloped. The writing is at a junior high level. The plot is so, so. The only good thing I can say is that I am glad I didn’t buy this book and read it on a 30 day free Kindle subscription.
Did not care for this book. Didn’t seem to have much in the way of reality there were no police involved no fire depts involved, no real life things that would have happened. The plot line was a good one, story just wasn’t told well.
started off good, but then started dragging and became unrealistic