You’ll have to read the rest yourself if you want to find out what happens. I also can’t explain what drastic steps Steve takes to thwart the Queen’s plans, which leads to a mind-boggling climax in which Mister Nobody and the knife salesmen show up in unexpected ways, and how the colony of wasps swarm out of a monstrous nest secretly constructed inside the-īut I’ve said too much already. It is just too wicked and horrible to be believed. No, I’m afraid I can’t tell what you that plan is. Worse, when the angel reveals herself to actually be the Queen Wasp, her plan to “fix” the baby actually involve growing a. There are the calls his younger sister receives from a Mister Nobody that no-one else can hear, the strange visits from the knife salesmen with the pincer-like hands, and the large nest being built along the roof near the baby’s room by a colony of oddly pale wasps, whose venom could instantly trigger Steve’s severe and potentially lethal allergies. He realizes he can finally make a difference and take away his parent’s pain, if only he follows through with his promise to help the angel.

But when Steve dreams of an angel who promises to “fix” his baby brother, a little sunlight starts to creep back into his life. The Nest tells the story of Steve, a young boy struggling with anxiety issues, whose parents try and fail to hide their worries from him about their newborn infant who has been diagnosed with a rare congenital disorder. In short, in a tale meant to unsettle you. It is the kind of book that, if you find yourself reading it late at night, will send tiny prickles down the back of your neck and force you to keep checking under the bed to make sure nothing is lurking under there, waiting to reach up and drag you under when you least expect it.

It is the kind of story that burrows itself into your brain and revisits you in the deep, dark midnight in the shape of slithering phantasms and shadowy nightmares.

Warning: The Nest, written by Kenneth Oppel and illustrated by Jon Klassen, is not a book for everyone.

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