{"id":25995,"date":"2025-02-23T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=25995"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:31:34","slug":"spider-seeds-by-david-tocher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=25995","title":{"rendered":"Spider Seeds by David Tocher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dark, unsettling, and impossible to put down\u2026<\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A houseplant becomes the harbinger of terror in Tocher\u2019s chilling tale. Maddy Perth is fascinated with plants. When she sees a strange, spindly specimen in a small shop in Victoria, British Columbia, she knows she has to take it home. Her decision turns into a nightmare, and her quiet condo becomes a breeding ground for an entity that\u2019s ancient, malevolent, and hungry. Tocher revels in body horror. His descriptions of the spider-thing nesting, growing, and consuming are stomach churning. Maddy\u2019s battle with it isn\u2019t just physical\u2014it\u2019s psychological. She isn\u2019t just fighting to survive; she\u2019s battling the ghosts of her past, the traumas that made her who she is. Tocher\u2019s influences are clear: there are echoes of \u2018The Thing,\u2019 \u2018Trilogy of Terror,\u2019 and \u2018Prey,\u2019 but the novel never feels derivative. The horror is fresh, unsettling, and deeply personal.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a book that simply scares. It sticks. It burrows into the mind, latching on with all the tenacity of its nightmarish antagonist. If you already hate spiders, the book will solidify that fear. If you don\u2019t, Tocher might just change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/ebH0Sd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date October 16, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u200e<\/strong>Rose Valley Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ASIN B0DKXJVCBP&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $3.63 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark, unsettling, and impossible to put down\u2026 A houseplant becomes the harbinger of terror in Tocher\u2019s chilling tale. Maddy Perth is fascinated with plants. When she sees a strange, spindly specimen in a small shop in Victoria, British Columbia, she knows she has to take it home. Her decision turns into a nightmare, and her quiet condo becomes a breeding ground for an entity that\u2019s ancient, malevolent, and hungry. Tocher revels in body horror. 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