I love watching her groups of characters find increasingly inventive ways of dealing with the situations they find themselves in. In my opinion, I feel that this experience made them stronger, and I’m interested to see where their newly formed friendship will take them in book two.

She regularly visits schools and festivals, and her books have been selected three times for The Reading Agency\'s Summer Reading Challenge.Jennifer Killick has done an amazing job at creating a very tense environment that had me racing through the book to find out what happened.

When I started the book I had planned on taking my time with it and reading it over a few days but once I started it I couldn't stop reading it. With scuttling horrors, subterranean scares and creepy caretakers, this is a great claustrophobic horror and we get to enjoy the bonding between the children as they’re compelled to join forces, despite their differences. I want to start by saying I LOVED THIS BOOK, but I won’t be giving it any stars on GR, or recommending it for MG readers. The whole plot is twisted and the fact that giant spiders wont attack by singing a nursery rhyme is weird but in a good way . They are having detention on this Saturday, you know, a few hours of doing stuff because of things they did.

The setting is nice and claustrophobic, as all good horror settings have to be, if the characters can just walk away it ruins the plot somewhat. As we get to know these characters we are reminded there is always a reason behind brash behaviour, or those who prefer to be invisible. What I will say is that this was definitely a kind of “found family” vibe because the characters kind of hate each other at the start, or at the very least are trying to avoid each other like the plague. There’s some light spoilers incoming at this point, so if you want to avoid them I’ll give you a takeaway now: I liked this book, it was good dumb fun, written well and compellingly. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.

Both the cover and synopsis gave off extremely creepy vibes, and to say I couldn’t wait to get stuck into it would be an understatement. The dialogue between the pupils is engaging and real, as we find out about their lives, but more importantly we find out that all is not as it seems at school on that Saturday morning.Giant ground laying spiders who hunt in packs and have been created by the Latchitts, who aren't really the Latchitts, they're disgraced scientists who want to prove they can do something great. From the get-go I was instantly pulled into the sinister surroundings of Dread Wood High, and its creepy inhabitants. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. I love the animals (the pigs especially), though we all know what happens to animals in horror, right? I really liked this setting, although I think I imagined it smaller than what the author really had in mind since the plot was so fast-paced and didn’t really leave me time to fully immerse myself in this setting.