Freakin Fridays!
Freakin Fridays is my own little meme. I’ll be posting about books, movies, and all things scary.
Feel free to join in and do your own Freakin Fridays posts!
Tune in every Friday. Get your scare on!
Let’s have some fun!
Last week I needed some help choosing which book to review for this weeks Freakin Friday post.
I showed you some covers and descriptions and which ever book got the most votes, I’d post my review this Friday!
It looks like the winner is #4 ~ BEDBUGS by LA Taylor
SYNOPSIS OF ‘BEDBUGS – CAN YOU SEE THEM?’
‘NIGHT, NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT AND DON’T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE’ In 1977, an alien spaceship crashed down to earth, landing deep within the soil in a small County called ‘Lemonsville’. During the night people were slaughtered, but the next day the killers disappeared. In 2020, the area where the spaceship landed was levelled off and new houses were built over it. Many foreigners were now living in the UK, and so more houses needed building. A small earthquake shook Lemonsville in the year 2050. This was the opening needed for the new creatures of the night to attack the living. Deep, deep down beneath the ground, the alien queen had given birth to a new killer. The earth tremor had produced an escape route for her new babies to hunt for food. Human food…
My Review
I love horror and especially horror stories with creepy creatures.
Most horror stories have large, menacing monsters or creatures, which I do love.
With Bedbugs, you get these teeny-tiny critters that are almost invisible to the naked eye. But wait, there’s more. These aren’t your ordinary pesky bedbugs. These bugs are from outer space, alien sentient beings. They work like a fine-tuned military unit, going about their mission.
Their mission is to collect food, which is us, and take it back to their queen. Being so tiny, they can’t collect the food by themselves, so they attack us in numbers, silently plotting and attacking. They are vicious and determined, chewing our bodies into sizable pieces with the precision of a surgeon.
Take a close look at the cover art for Bedbugs. It doesn’t matter that these bugs are tiny. They are nasty and their very design is for the purpose of rending and eating.
I loved this story. What a great idea and well plotted out.
It starts with an atmosphere of anticipation and quickly captures your full attention.
The first chapter is grisly and horrifying. What’s great is, the author lays out the plot for the story throughout the first attack, giving you an idea of what and why the bugs are here.
A surprise is their mode of traveling from one scene of attack to another. Never would have expected it and it really made me take these bugs seriously.
It just keeps getting better and I only stopped reading for the night when my kindle fell in my lap and woke me up. I had drifted off as it was late. Glad I woke up and had to move around a bit. Maybe that’s what kept me from dreaming about these bugs!
5 Stars for BEDBUGS
I gave this my high rating because I know I will be reading it again. It also made me curious about our terrestrial bedbugs.
Some interesting facts
Bedbug feeding physiology
A bed bug pierces the skin of its host with what is called a stylet fascicle, rostrum, or “beak”. This is a unit composed of the maxillae and mandibles, which have been modified into elongated shapes from a basic, ancestral style. The right and left maxillary stylets are connected at their midline and a section at the centerline forms a large food canal and a smaller salivary canal. The entire maxillary and mandibular bundle penetrates the skin.[5]
The mandibular stylet tips have small teeth and through alternately moving these stylets back and forth, the insect cuts a path through tissue for the maxillary bundle to reach an appropriately sized blood vessel. Pressure from the blood vessel itself fills the insect with blood in three to five minutes. The bug then withdraws the stylet bundle from the feeding position and retracts it back into the labial groove, folds the entire unit back under the head, and returns to its hiding place.[5] It takes between five and ten minutes for a bed bug to become completely engorged with blood.[25] In all, the insect may have spent less than 20 minutes in physical contact with its host, and will not attempt to feed again until it has either completed a molt or, if an adult, has thoroughly digested the meal.
Pretty nasty, eh?
I was also reminded of an extended story from Outer Limits starring Beau Bridges.
Maybe you’ve seen it?
Sandkings
Check out this video.
Trailer from Sandkings – OuterLimits
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About the author and where to find him.
My name is Lee Taylor, I was born on March 19th 1969, at ‘George Eliot Hospital’, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England…
I suppose I was always into writing from when I was a child. I remember writing children’s stories aged 10, which were read to younger children, & even at age 13-16, I would write school essays which were 10 pages longer than needed…..This would result in a no mark because of its length, but writer’s can’t help writing…
When I was 17 I bought a movie camera. I suppose I wanted to be the next ‘Spielberg’……lol….I would write ideas down & get the family over to make short films…
But it wasn’t until I was 24 that I dabbled in actual serious writing.
It was then that my first novel came to light – A story which I’m now re-writing for its 20th Anniversary release in 2013…
In 1999, my zombie novel idea came to light, but it took many, many years before it was passed around to the World. That novel has seen its title change 3 times in the past 10 years, but CLIFTON FALLS is now staying put as that name…..No more name changes……lol
I’ve now released 2 novels so far, with both available on amazon kindle…
http://www.amazon.com/CLIFTON-FALLS-e…
http://www.amazon.com/BEDBUGS-Can-you…
BEDBUGS (CAN YOU SEE THEM?) – Is based on man-eating insects from outer space…
My website gives more info on me, my stories, & what I am doing now..
Available Books and upcoming releases.
A zombie story! Available now.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE TOWN YOU LIVED IN WAS INVADED BY FLESH EATING ZOMBIES?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF A LOVED ONE TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF THEM?
An experimental fertilizer used to improve the food grown on a local farm in CLIFTON FALLS is now the reason behind why the dead are rising to feast on the living.
Within a day bodies are piling up, but no one can work out how it’s happened.
The police force struggle to maintain the horde of “blood crazed” killers as they
battle the un-dead in the local HOSPITAL.
Three months before the zombie outbreak the local bank was robbed, leaving one victim dead. The robbers worked at the hospital and so buried the cash inside the victim’s coffin. Now they are back to dig up the cash before the police snoop around.
Unknown to them, the living dead are rising from their graves, including the victim from the bank. Now the police have to fight the zombies before they cause havoc at the local holiday village.
Can the Chief Inspector find a way of eliminating them before the virus spreads into the CITY and BEYOND?
This novel contains strong language & graphic violence….
Coming later this year. Can’t wait.
Rampaging killer rats that cause havoc in the farming town of Aaronsville.
Sounds like another winner.
I hear the author is working on the next book about these Bedbugs!
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