Post-breakup, Mike gets invited to go camping with his friend Wade when a meteor strikes, leaving them and several other campers stranded. They soon discover that with this meteor came these strange worms and they like to bite. As the horror unfolds, it becomes a race to get out of the state park in one piece and find help.

This book wasn’t perfect but the vibes for me were immaculate. Oddly enough, I had a fun time reading this and absolutely devoured this book. I can tell that this had some inspiration from the movie “Tremors” but I didn’t mind that. This book was gory and action-packed with a lot of death.

The character development could’ve been improved but I think it was hard to achieve because

there was so much death. You could not get attached to any characters because you didn’t know when they would be the next one to go.

There were several moments that felt lacking and flat due to this. Even though the character development was lacking and this book felt like a bit like free-for-all, I loved the humor. I always find myself enjoying horror books more when they contain an element of dark humor and this delivered on that for me. It was also nice to see a mixture of characters from other countries and to get some of their slang and humor in the story as well. Imperfections included, this book still has probably been my most enjoyable read of this year so far.

For those of you that may be concerned, there is a dog in this book and the dog

technically survives.

I don’t want to spoil too much, but you will understand what I mean by that when you reach the end. There is also a child in this story and

the child has the same outcome as the dog.

Thank you to NetGalley and Rising Action Publishing for sending me an arc!