Library Journal STARRED review: “This fast-paced and suspenseful story, featuring genetically altered wasps, is one of the most entertaining novels readers will encounter this year. However, it is also disturbing on every level, from the graphically vivid and scientifically realistic body horror, to the unsettlingly frank discussions of class and women’s friendships, to the discussions about the ethics of gene-altering experiments. Readers will be engulfed by the story from the moment they open the book, while the echoing hum of what they just experienced will buzz around in their heads long after they finish. Cutter is at the top of his game here, providing an intensely visceral and gripping tale.”

BookPage STARRED review: “With his breakthrough 2014 novel, The Troop, which was one of the most acclaimed horror novels of the last decade, Nick Cutter established himself as a writer of propulsive, muscular, unrelenting journeys into terror. His latest book, The Queen, reaffirms his place as one of the genre’s most entertaining storytellers, delivering a creature feature and the story of a doomed friendship in one unputdownable package.”