You can subscribe to have those three books shipped to you, plus the other two once they become available. As a result, it was hard to care much about the carnage that came from the mutated, giant, man-eating cockroaches. Whether you’re a grassroot or elite side, The Nest is the perfect place to enjoy a high-quality football residential break in Norwich.

However, Leo's reckless actions at a wedding party means that funds need to be withdrawn from the Nest prematurely. The Nest falls into that group, too, which surprised me, since it was the first novel in the series.

It's so insane, so inexplicable, so preposterous, you have to wonder how Douglas could even think of it. His vision and vocabulary is crisp and clean, submerging the reader deep into his very dark territory. Unlike Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, Yarkie is still a 'working' island, with most of its inhabitants linked to the sea trade in various forms and never embraced the tourist trade. And as the money has grown, so too has their capacity to do the one thing their father warned them against: “count the chickens before they hatched”. Douglas’s The Nest is certainly a product of the period, a creature-feature formulaic: pick icky creature (in this case a cockroach), mutate it (with environmentally unfriendly pesticides); imbue it with a hive intelligence (and a thirst for human blood!

there is something to be said about a book that features multiple scenes of people having roaches tunnel through their eyes into their brain. Being that this was originally written back in 1980 we also get: some preachy scientist talk, some man-splaining, a smidge of schmaltzy romance, a wee bit of anti-feminism, and a tad of classism. If you like your novels complex with characters possessing major flaws that they cannot overcome, this is a book you will probably like.This is definitely something I don't see every day with your standard horror book - especially mainstream authors on the bestseller list. It is my second read of the Paperbacks From Hell series and while it doesn’t quite which the depths in terms of its characters as When Darkness With Us does, it makes up for that in bloody, gory horror.

Douglas also does not shy away from the visceral gore of the roach attacks-- some nasty scenes to be sure! This book has everything it needs: old sassy grandpa, tough-as-shark sailors, slimy overweight mayors, cute little children, suburban anarchists drugging it up, dated worldviews that seem almost overly dated to be comical but then it sticks with it and you don't know if the author is having a gag or actually kind of sexist and a little overconcerned at taking potshots at The Youth(tm) and their Modern Society(tm), New England fishing jokes, attractive college students, attractive scientists, dudes going on a rampage against some goshdarn roaches, forest fires, storms, abandoned lighthouses, discussions of heritage, middle-aged couples getting into drunken fights, dogs getting eaten by roaches tunneling through said dogs eyes into their dog brains. If you don't remember those good old days, try this book on for size and see what all the fuss was about. The atmosphere is very rich and you feel as if you are stranded on the island along with the characters.Plus, I don't really like that many people, so if I wanted more than like 2 people to come, I'd have to settle for some fucking losers.

To be fair, it does so with charm and proficiency, wrapping up its every plot line into a happy ending worthy of a well focus-grouped blockbuster. With Rory's confessions making it clear that he is both broke and a liar, the driver anticipates that he will be unable to pay for the long fare and leaves him in the middle of nowhere. This book was first published in 1980 so it really has that 80s creature/monster film vibes which I adore so much. As a former Florida-person, I both appreciate and despise how well Douglas was able to flesh out the roach scenes.

The Nest is fun, gory book that is secretly also a witty and sophisticated book, if you want to read between the lines. At work, Rory proposes that Arthur sell his company to a larger American firm looking for a London office.