I haven't read beyond the first chapter =D I am deathly afraid of those thing, I can handle a spider being in my room but the minute I see a palmetto my ass is up for the night out of my room paranoid.
I stuff the door cracks to my room too make me feel better at night only during the summer though =))) even though they can flatten their self paper thin I still feel better. It like a common house bug in FL during the summer (shivers)