Quite the allegory for modern times. I truly wasn’t terribly interested in reading a story about literal ants, but I was very pleasantly surprised and will likely read the other books in the series. Due to how different this book is, it is difficult to write about without spoilers. With that said, I highly suggest parents reading it with their child. There are MANY moments in this book that can be used for teaching your children important lessons on life. You will see how prejudice and injustice form from tiny, seemingly insignificant seeds, to something of monumental importance. The same seeds form with war and the like. You can teach how it is imperative to stop these seeds before they have a chance to grow. There are also many silly and lighthearted moments that can be enjoyed with your child.

While it isn’t necessarily the book for me, with the right audience it will soar.

Wow! I was impressed by this story.

This story is told from insects POVS. Four insects make friends and are teleported to a new world where they must learn to work together and overcome war.

Spiders, termites, ants and bees are the main insects and how they overcame and died for their cause.

I loved the originality of this story and how it showed things that human beings never see in their homes and their interactions.

I can't wait to read the next book and see what interesting things we will find out in that one.

Highly recommended

Firstly I will say, and this is not so much a critique as it is me being confused, I really can't tell who the target audience for this is. At times, especially in the beginning, it felt very much like a story for kids. But then more and more brutal things happen, and I start to wonder. The language is also full of difficult words that might be hard for kids or younger teens to understand. I suppose, however, that if you want to tell your children about the brutalities of war, using insects rather than humans might be "less brutal". I couldn't find any tags anywhere about the genre or audience for the book, and the cover makes it look like a horror book (which it is not).
Anyways, I liked the story, the characters were pretty simple and straightforward (not very deep), but still likable. The interview at the beginning and end + the poems at the beginning of chapters, I didn't like much. I get the interview is used to explain things to the reader, but I don't know. A detail I liked was the explanations of where certain quotes or ideas came from.

CW: war, brainwashing, death, murder, suicide, poisoning, loss of friends or family