Review: The Hatching (The Hatching, Book #1)

Author: Ezekiel Boone
​Rating: 3.5 Stars
Review By Shana

​Highly entertaining book -- think written version of creature-feature, B-movie in all the best ways. The scene: something like present day earth (maybe a few years in the future), an ancient menace appears to reawaken. China nukes itself, a millionaire gets a nasty stomach bug as he visits Peru, Indian seismologists sense a disturbance that is growing, Marines get ready for deployment, and an arachnologist finds her work of sudden and growing importance to the White House. 

​The author clearly takes pleasure in trying to creep you out and introduces (and in many cases, grossly dispatches) a wide cast of characters -- some merely are cogs in the horror/SF machinery, others seem to be lynchpins in this projected trilogy. The characters are a bit one-dimensional and many are ridiculously good-looking, but this is less character study than disaster book and it all works. The book is fast-paced and clearly the first act, ending in a cliff-hanger. Now I just have to wait until the next books and try not to feel like I’m covered in creepy crawlies in the meantime.