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The Queen

By: Nick Cutter
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill, Pete Simonelli
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“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity’s been missing for over a month. Most people in town—even the police—think she’s dead.

Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another…except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story—the real story. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend—a person she never truly knew at all…

©2024 Nick Cutter (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Interview: With "The Queen," Nick Cutter has mastered the art of creepy-crawly horror

'Writing from the villain's perspective... is quite liberating and quite fun.'
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Enthralling

Really compelling story and characters. Horrifying imagery. Part Carrie, part Aliens, part The Fly, part Rivers Edge.

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Lots of bugs .

I like Cutter a lot and I love his work with bugs and body horror. I myself am a little bored of teenaged girl horror tropes. There’s moments of mean girls , Carrie , Jennifer’s body in here that just feels a little done but the villain is evil creepy crawly fun.

This book is a bit too rapey for teenagers to be the focal point. But Cutter is overall still an author I seek out of the grossest horror that leaves me thinking about scenes from each one of his works. This is the grossest yet I think, and that’s a compliment.

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Nick Cutter Brings it Again

More insectile ooze in this killer story of genetic engineering and grotesque transformations. When Nick Cutter releases a new novel it’s like a national holiday for me. Another horror fiction winner!

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Top notch voice acting! Plot felt like it lacked catharsis.

First off let me say that the plot was very well structured leaving me on edge like most Cutter stories. The body horror was top notch here as well. All the pieces were there but I left the story feeling like there was a small piece missing. When I gave it 4 stars I really mean something like 4.7 or so. At the end of the day it’s a story about home town childhood friendship and how it drifts apart with personal growth. Also Rudy’s loss and how his love twisted his soul.

I would put this behind the breach and the deep but it has a place among them. I know people love the troop but I feel like I don’t go back and read that one over and over like the first two I mentioned. The queen is a riveting story full of love, loss, and horror. The voice actors were fantastic as well. I felt for the characters and the delivery was fantastic.

For those who love the fly and wanted to see that mixed with a coming of age story focused on friendship, this book is for you!

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Great For teen audience

Im sure that teens can connect with dialogs and colloquialisms, emotions.
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horror in a mature storyline. Not the author's fault, just personal preference.

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Nick Cutter delivers another banger!

gory, suspenseful, leaves me squeamish and I loved every page of it. Could be a good movie.

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Couldn’t stop listening!

I loved this book, the horror is perfect! The graphic nature perfectly explained. Definitely a stomach churning book and not for the squeamish. Highly recommended for horror lovers.

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awesome

another astounding read from nick cutter! this is my 4th book of his that I've read. he does body horror so frigging well. couldn't put it down.

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Pure Nightmare Fuel

This is going to be one of the best horror books of the year. Once again, Cutter cuts us to the bone and flays us open like a fish, leaving our ballooning lungs to falter in the cool air and our hearts to shudder under jaundiced yellow light. The Queen takes everything human in us and begs to question how we are at the top of the food chain. This is an entomological nightmare that doesn't stop. Cutter made sure to use the devices always in our hands to add a level of fear that creeps slowly along the spine and then just pulls the freaking thing right out out by the talebone, I was going to say butt, but this is a review, for audible.

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Story and narration!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as the one mentioned earlier had the right amount of everything. Great story great narration enough gore hard to keep me interested without what I thought was a very good story!

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