Cult of the Spider Queen will never win awards as a literary novel, but it's a rollicking fun read. Think King Kong but with big spiders and no New York or Faye Wray. After a young reporter sneaks a mystery package out of the mail room, he heads to the Amazon to find a missing woman filmmaker and giant spiders. Yikes! You know how you go to horror movies and shout, "Don't go in that room!" Spider Queen makes you wonder why they went down that tributary, why they went on that warship that smelled bad, why they went into that shrine and on and on. But, it wouldn't be much of a horror story if all the characters thought things out. Don't go near that cave! Oh shoot, they did it anyway.
Lots of bodies wrapped up in webs, creepy kidnappers with horns, even a trip to the moon. And spiders! A tad too much smirking for my tastes, but what can I do. Books are a smirk-a-thon anymore. Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read and review an eArc of Cult of the Spider Queen.
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