Itsy – Matt Shaw

4 very creepy stars

I don’t know if my takeaway from this should be: Never go to the Amazon, or Don’t trust a random vacation offer from a sketchy company, even if it’s from a family member. Both? Both seem like excellent takeaways….

Jeez, what a string of bad luck for Carly and her family. She wins this random trip to the Amazon from a giveaway that she doesn’t remember entering, only for their guide to faff off in the middle of the night with all of their documentation. Then Carly gets bitten by a weird giant spider, she gets very very sick, and everyone is captured by a very unfriendly spider-worshipping tribe. Finding out what was actually supposed to happen and where everything actually went wrong was just the icing on the cake!

Itsy reinforced every horrible thought I’ve ever had about spiders (those fevered dreams were horrifying enough to send a chill down my spine, so thanks a bunch for that!), made even worse by the fact that I’ve found two spiders in my house within the last couple days. I now have the ick thinking of anything happening to me like what happened to Carly, and am feeling the great desire to thoroughly fumigate my house.

Matt’s books are always a delight to read and guaranteed to have me making fun faces at them wherever I happen to be!