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** spoiler alert ** A blizzard is perhaps the worst time to find out there’s a giant killer spider on the loose. Two local police are responding to a car that ran off the road in the storm. In the hunt for the missing driver the duo find themselves traipsing throughout the woods where they come across a number of curious things and find themselves investigating one disappearance after the next. It’s not until everyone starts getting attacked that they become believers and unfortunately most don’t stand a chance. The book is brutal, bloody and literally almost everyone dies…. there are soooooo many cops killed, I honestly thought it would end with no one alive. The book was pretty exciting and equally annoying because of course no one wants to believe deputy Weller when he tells them his partner was attacked and taken by a spider. The annoyance ended quick as soon enough they start getting picked off and have to face the facts of being hella underprepared and far too late to run. The snowstorm adds a nice touch to the horrible circumstances as they all run for their lives. One thing that makes me laugh is how long the night is where they are given how long they’re traipsing through knee high snow. I’m so used to movies cutting over to sunrise that having it not happen here just feels off and would have at least literally shed some light for Weller even through the storm. Because of that and a few other reasons I’ll get to I gotta say I’m not loving the unclear open ending. Given the intensity of the book, the unfinished feeling I’m left with spoils a lot of it for me. Does anyone come to Weller’s rescue? Why does it take so many cops and so many bullets for them to only hit two eyes? And why did it take them that long to even aim for the only vulnerable parts of it when it was clearly armored smh?!? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ Which brings me to the most important question…. Is the spider even dead? I mean, hello?.?.? Then there’s the question of where the hell this massive beast with an impenetrable exoskeleton comes from? There’s not even a hint as to how it came to be, no vats of toxic waste, no escaped science experiments and no local government ‘research’ facilities. It’s been hunting everything in the area, seemingly for a long time given the graveyard they find and no one’s noticed? With its injuries I mean come on, I’ll be damned if this thing won’t branch out more after decimating everything in the woods. In the end the thing must be more than severely injured which would also mean it’s the best time to hunt it down and finish it off. Heck it may even go on a bigger and more crazed hunting spree now because waiting is not an option. But who would even be that hero? There’s literally one person left and he’s probably going to go into a mental fit, suffer hypothermia and be of no use to anyone until the poor man can rest and recover. I honestly wish we had something to take away from this book. The intensity is high throughout much of the book really making this a syfy nerds B movie dreams come true but damn if the end doesn’t feel like being on a roller coaster with a missing track at the end ☹️