The Nest in Creatures, Creatures Everywhere!

Jun 23, 2020 Tyler Gray rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, horror, own-physical, cryptids-and-creature-features, zebra-pubbed, paperbacks-from-hell

3.25

I liked it. At times it felt both pretentious (with having to constantly look up words only to realize it seemed to just be using "big words" because it could, not because it needed to. Like a "look what big word I know!" even though this is just a killer cockroach book...) and badly written. I mostly liked all the science but eventually it did feel a bit dry. The romance felt...weird too...and i'm not sure why it was there.

That stuff aside though I did like it for the most part. It's gross, ...more

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May 30, 2020 Terry rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror, audio-book, 2020-book-challenge

3.51/5.0 stars. I liked the old school feel to this just enough to round up to 4. This story takes a bit of an odd perspective for me considering my very science-minded young son is raising some giant cockroaches in a cage in his room right now (amongst many other creepy crawlies). I’ll definitely be looking at them differently from now on, lol. Fun creature feature horror.

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Apr 07, 2019 Mike rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, horror

This one is the first book in Valencourt's line of "Paperbacks From Hell" novels. These are reprints of 80s horror novels that were featured in Grady Hendrix's nonfiction book Paperbacks From Hell.

I preordered the whole line because I trust both Hendrix and Valencourt Books to find some wothwhile stuff.

After this book, I still hold that trust in them, with a few qualifiers.

It's a tale as old as time: giant mutant cockroaches terrorize a small New England Island.

The book alternates between three ...more

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Jun 07, 2020 Elke rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, review, novels, horror, creature, valancourt, ha-2020-az, ha-2020-themed, 2020

I love creature features, especially creepy crawly ones. The Nest is an oldie in this genre, but it hasn't lost its bite during all those years - literally.

Between the covers of this book you will find a disturbing mix of cozy island feeling and very graphic descriptions of roach attacks - wonderful! The writing has an old-fashioned, almost distinguished? flair about it, which should come as no surprise, considering it has been written about 40 years ago. It especially shows in the sweetly bloss ...more

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Apr 06, 2023 Amelie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Unfortunately, it didn't grab me! ...more

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Jan 21, 2022 Patrick Kiernan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A fun animal attack novel maybe a bit too much science but some good death scenes

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May 12, 2019 Kylie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror-and-paranormal, my-library

This took me a while to read simply because I am not really into animal attack horror, however this is probably the best one I have read to date. The purple prose livens up what would otherwise be a somewhat simplistic and gory catalogue of death, and the author spends a bit more time in the characters' heads than you might think. ...more

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