This was fun read though let the cover speak for itself. If you don't like bugs, especially spiders, they're too much, this book is probably not for you.

It's over the top, gory, filled with moments that alternate between fun adrenaline leaps to the next point of safety and Mist-like horrors grabbing people and eating them up. The book does well at providing a likable cast you root for, hoping they make it, and just bond with. I also laughed over the MC's description of Mike. Poor Mike, he must have done something to get his name immortalized in this book.

There's also some truly horrific moments that make you stop and think what the heck would you do? Strapped down and at the top of a roller coaster, strapped into a water ride, trapped in a gridlocked traffic stop... all with mammoth spider monsters waging war? Icky.

I enjoyed the style and the narration though some of the gore felt overdone for what the perspective of the MC should be. We get close up, including sensations like warm blood, narrations of violence that wouldn't be possible given either how far the MC is from the actual attack or how quick he's witnessing it. I didn't mind the extreme gore (which this definitely is), just some of it didn't fit in for what the MC was doing. Since this story is completely told from the MC's perspective, it sometimes pulled me out of that view.

That is really my only gripe. The monsters were fun, the adventure a sadistic survivalist game for these poor people, I don't like spiders but this helped confirm why, the characters are believable, and it's a quick read.