John Saul hes a great author but sometimes his books are hard to digest.

Entertaining read from Saul. Unique concept using insects along with a serial killer. The problem I had with this book is that Saul does not go into much background at all about the villian until the last chapter. Which is a flashback moment. I think the book would have worked better if that part was used as the prologue, then throughout the story describe other times from his past. Overall pretty good and some violent scenes. If you have a phobia about insects, I would skip this one.

So, I read this when I was in high school and didn't realize it until I was a few pages in. This was one of the first Saul books I read and hooked me. It's one of my favorite stories, so reading it again was great.

I used to be obsessed with John Saul's books when I was in high school so I was really excited to get a copy of his books. His writing style definitely kept me interested to finish it but man, I just get so iffy with bugs. Really interesting concept but just made me super queasy. Definitely not my favourite of his works but definitely recommend for an out of this world story.

I wanted to like it... And in places it had promise. But for much of the book I was just unimpressed all around.

I enjoy reading all of John Saul's book. This one was a really good read. I was not disappointed.

The story from prologue to epilogue was nail-biting and kept me on the edge of my seat.

The characters were well defined. From the beginning I didn't like Harrison, I could sense that he was behind the evil that was being portrayed. Such a great read.

Not Saul's best work, but not his worst either. Single mom and her two daughters move from L.A. to mom's home town to marry an old flame. Some strange hybrid/engineered bees start causing trouble, along with the company rep in town. Definitely not for the squeamish, this one has lots of bugs doing nasty things, plus a brutal killer of young women.

Listened to the (thankfully!) abridged version of this at the gym. I cannot imagine enjoying reading a book this plodding, but as an audio book it's OK. Cynthia Harris does fine with voices but won't win any awards. The characters act pretty damn stupid sometimes (a doctor showing up alone to the house of a man she's pretty sure poisoned teenagers?) but I guess if they didn't we wouldn't have a story, huh?

The writing was incredibly intense and I was hooked into the action immediately. I'm still confused by how the final event occurred but the ending was fitting yet truly disturbing.

This was an odd read, and I had hoped that the ending would bring some sort of closure. Nope. Not one of my favorite John Saul stories.

If you have an insect phobia, I strongly suggest not reading this.

I hope this one is the weakest book written by John Saul. It is also possible written by a kid and just signed by Saul. The idea is okay but the writing is lacking in interesting details, instead it is filled with unnecessary ones, as if he just wanted to reach his number of pages per book. The dialogs are very poor, doubly to be found in a real situation. Not to mention the fragile connections between characters and repetitive explanations of their sensations when they become infected. Avoid this one.