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Children of Time - It's fantastic. Easily digestable space fair about giant intelligent spiders in their war with ants. Humans are involved but I care little for them. Not going to lie, I'm mainly there for the chapters narrated by the spiders and they are expectional.
I loved this book. I wanted to marry it. I didn't fall in love with any particular species, but loved all their places in the story. The humans were pretty cool too, so call me a human lover, see if I care 😄
It's a great book. The sequels are also excellent. You're in for a treat :D
Loved the children of time! I don't think I quite have arachnaphobia, but some of the spider chapters really creeped me out! (In a good way!)
I love spiders. One of my fondest spider memories is sitting at the park drinking a diet coke. There was a little jumping spider on the table and he (she?) was sharing the condensation on the bottle. Every time I set it down it would run over & lick the bottle. Cutest spider ever. Loved Children of Time so much.
Something about this book just blew me away. I couldn't get into the sequels but maybe I'll try again.
Other books by AT are even weirder but somewhat less intense.
Halfway throught it, really enjoying it.