by Sarah Pinborough
London streets that were once filled with pedestrians, tourists and shoppers are now clogged with thick webs and dead bodies. Spidery creatures straight out of a nightmare have infested the city, skittering after their human prey, spinning sticky traps to catch their food…
A few desperate survivors have banded together, realizing their only hope for survival is to flee the dying city. Their route will take them through wrecked streets, into an underground train station. Only too late will they discover their deadly mistake: their chosen tunnel is home to the hungry creatures’ food cache, filled with cocooned but still living victims. Instead of escape, the group has run straight into the heart of a…FEEDING GROUND.
The highly anticipated sequel to Sarah Pinborough’s Breeding Ground is finally here. (For those who have not read Breeding Ground click on the link to read about it and buy it.) I will say this, Breeding Ground is a fantastic scare fest that is sure to send you arachnophobes screaming into the night. Feeding Ground will drive you over the edge.
I first found out about Sarah Pinborough through Dorchester Publishing’s Horror Book Club and have looked forward to any new book from her with great anticipation.
I just love that there are so many talented women writing horror today. I don’t mean this in any sexist way. Woman and men are different, if they weren’t what would be the fun in that. Women look at things, feel things and think differently than men, and that is a good thing. I love their outlook in the world of horror fiction, I love the passion they bring to my beloved genre and mainly I love their stories.
And Sarah Pinborough is one hell of a storyteller.
Feeding Ground is a knock down, drag em’ out, nail biting tale that is sure to keep you repeating to yourself…it is only a story, it is only a story. Especially late at night when you think you hear the subtle scratching of many wispy legs crawling across your ceiling.
But it is not the creatures that drive this story, it is Sarah’s wonderful characters that are put into this web infested creature feature. Her characters brim with lifelike qualities; the bad and the good. One thing I love about horror fiction is how the author handles the characters that they drop into these impossible scenarios. How sometimes even the most vile will somehow find their humanity and work for the greater good to save the day. And Sarah nails her characters in Feeding Ground.
That may sound corny to you but it is something I thoroughly enjoy.
In a few short words, this is a an absolutely wonderful book and proves once again that any mention of the top writers in the field today should include Sarah Pinborough.
I will not give any spoilers but I am desperately hoping for a third installment.
I give it a hearty two skeletal thumbs up and highly recommend it.
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