Buzz Kill by Jeff Jacobson is a brash, over the top, offensive novel about giant wasps killing a bunch of people.
If the Sci-fi channel hired Rob Zombie to make a movie about murder hornets it might be a little like this. A low budget monster movie of a book that somehow captures if-y CGI on a page. I couldn't look away for some reason.
In all seriousness though the book seems to relish in being in your face and tasteless.
It starts with an exploding baby and goes from there.
One of my biggest complaints with the book is the fact that it seems to fall back on the old "everyone is a jerk so it's okay if they die" trope. In one scene a main character kneels on the neck of a villain who is suffering severe head trauma, stabs her in the eye with a Giant stinger, and then gouges out her other eye with his thumb, a little later as a group is chatting she is described as still twitching, but no one cares because she is a racist. The President is shot in the head but is able to serve his last two years missing 1/3 of his brain without it changing things much.
Speaking of brains for some reason I feel the need to wash mine now.
Thanks to #NetGalley, #KensingtonBooks and Jeff Jacobson for the ARC of #BuzzKill.