THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER CLIMBED UP THE BQ'S SHELF......WE SPRAY SOME QUILL-ICIDE ON 'THE HATCHING'

THE HATCHING by Ezekiel Boone aims to make your skin itch and crawl with its apocalyptic depiction of our world overrun by hordes of flesh eating spiders....wow, it's the world wide web for real.....

We'll say this much for "The Hatching".....the first two thirds of it is enjoyably creepy, gory and fast paced as it hops, skips and yes...skitters across a spider-ravaged globe.And then, as the book reached its final chapters, I lost all respect for this author.....cause it started to read as if he'd stopped writing and turned the book over to the publisher's marketing department for completion. The book finishes up with some skimpy,barely written scraps designed to make readers salivate for next book in what we now realize is a series, with the sequel due sometime in 2017. So instead of an ending, you get a trailer for the next book.

 Beached Quill memo to Ezekiel Boone....if you want people to stay with you for a potential series.....WRITE A WHOLE BOOK THE FIRST TIME OUT. Don't pass off on your readers nothing more than a slimy, corporate advertisement for your next book. Man up and write....you're supposed to function as the author, not the marketing team. There's a difference.

Ahhh, that was a fun rant. Beached Quill normally loves and adores rampaging bug stories, but the cynical calculation involved in this book's presentation made our skin crawl worse than the spiders. Sorry, but we spin only 1 1/2 webs. It's strictly an Arachna-phony.