Wasps in June by Brad Prentice.
Wasps: When wasps start attacking people in unprecedented numbers, reporter John Walsh tries to find out why. His search leads to something more… an ordeal bigger than anyone would have ever guessed. Ten Days in June: At the close of the school year, teacher Vincent West takes a trip to visit his brother. He immediately feels a strangeness about the town, and during his visit, he discovers a disturbing secret.
Really good read. Little creepy. Don't like wasps myself. 5*.

I did not enjoy this book at all - the premise sounded amazing to me, I'm a huge lover of horror books/books involving animals, I am constantly on the search for a good creature feature but this was just not the one for me.
It seemed too fast - everything happened while nothing happened and it left me wondering what I had just read!

I really think that the author could be someone I enjoy reading, and I do really think that this book could be something great but I need it to be fleshed out a bit more! More pages, more character development and just more in general! I need it to be fleshed out but this felt too rushed for me.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to read it, and perhaps there is an audience out there for this book, but I am not a part of it unfortunately!

Another one that unfortunately didn't do it for me. I didn't realize this was two short stories, and as I love short stories/novellas, I was actually excited to find that out. Unfortunately, both of the stories lacked depth. Combine that with rather simplistic, "tell don't show" writing, and these were misses for me.

I was surprised to find that this was actually two short stories. Wasps In June was by far the superior of the two but both of them fell kind of flat. Quick reads but nothing to really shout about.

Wasps in June by Brad Prentice is a well-titled book that includes two novellas that really feel incomplete. The first story is about an apocalyptic event that is initiated by wasp attacks on the citizenry and the subsequent investigations that culminate in a moment of epiphany that requires a response. The other story is about a college professor that takes his summer break to go visit a cousin in a small town, but the small town has been harboring secrets. The town sheriff and the villagers prefer not to be visited by strangers and view any out-of-towners as potential busy-bodies. I must admit that both tales were sufficiently engaging, but I feel that both ended just as the plot “thickened.” There was no payoff. The endings felt incomplete and ultimately unsatisfying.

So this wasn't bad but wasn't particularly good either. Wasps being the better of the two short stories in the book. Set in a kind of future where wasps are attacking and killing some people. With the second short story about a professor going back to his family town to visit and strange things start to happen. Both sound pretty good but I wasn't that impressed. Like I said at the start they weren't bad and they were very quick reads written in a very readable way.

Even though Wasps in June was published in 2015, I chose to read and review it because I love a good horror story. The wasp idea made my skin crawl even before I started to read. There’s a lot of good, creepy, revolting (the wasps) horror here. You’ve got great characters - the newspaper reporter, the threatening men wearing sunglasses and dark suits, the researcher who has discovered that something really bad is going on and, of course, genetically engineered killer wasps. The problem is that the story is too short and needs a better ending. Add more how and why to the genetic engineering, add some more detailed wasp attacks, play up interaction between the researcher and at the reporter and you’ve got a movie. After Wasps in June ends there’s another short story, this one about zombies, not my favorite. Evidently they have to be fed regularly and traffic violators come in handy. Enough said. 3 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Black Rose Writing and Brad Prentice for this ARC.

This book was interesting, but it did not seem to flow like most books I read. Even tho it was 2 short stories l would have liked more depth to it.