Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. This week I picked:
The Hatching (The Hatching, #1) by Ezekiel Boone
Details: Hardcover, 320 pages
Expected publication: July 5th 2016 by Random House Canada
Buy it: Book Depository
Summary: 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 stake out 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.
ohh, thanks for spotting this because I haven’t heard about it before!
I hope you’ll enjoy it once you read it.
p.s. I just have to tell you, I love how you decored your blog. your picture is so pretty and colors go great with it. 🙂
Thank you. 🙂
I have been wanting this one for some time. In fact, I was hoping to get an ARC, but no such luck. Thanks for sharing it and I hope we both end up enjoying it!
I have a copy of this and can’t wait to get stuck in! SPIDERS!
Lynn 😀
Lucky! I’m super jealous. lol Hope you enjoy it.
I hadn’t heard of this book but it sounds interesting and definitely has an original plot!