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Feeding Ground (2009)

by Sarah Pinborough(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0843962933 (ISBN13: 9780843962932)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Leisure Books

review 1: Don't read if you suffer from arachnophobia!Feeding Ground is another example for an entertaining mean little creature feature, this time with a creepy kind of spiders invading earth. While the action was always fast-paced, there was still enough room to flesh out the protagonists.I appreciated that the author did not just describe another alien invasion, but put in a nice twist by placing it in the territory of a mad drug lord, which added some interesting variety.Thinking of a movie version, I had pictures from Attack the Block in mind several times.Nice.
review 2: Giant spiders? How could you go wrong?Apparently, fairly easily.This is the second in a series from what I can tell, and I have not had the pleasure of reading the first, having picked this off a s... morehelf at a local used book store. The back painted a very interesting idea of what should be contained within. However, once I started reading, the tale soon spiralled down to the point where I was struggling to finish the tale.There are a fair bit of good points for this novel. The characters were interesting and believeable for the most part, if partially unrelatable. You ended up caring for some of them, but others quickly became easy to disregard and forget all together.The horror aspect of the story, the birth of the spiders for example, are beautifully creepy and grotesque in every sense of those words. However, once the birthing process has been finished, the actual horror of the spiders themselves becomes non-existant as no actual tension is presented in regards to them. Think of it like comparing Alien vs Aliens. The first movie was chalk full of horrific moments, lots of suspense, and terror. Much how I assume (and hope) the first book to this series was. The second movie was more action orientated, shoving aside the horror aspect except for a couple moments. This book is like that, only with less action.In the end, I don't recommend this book. Despite the characters that were memorable and that I cared about, the rest of the story dragged me down and mired me in a spidersweb of uninteresting writing. less

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