Science Fiction
What Goodreads says:
"A decade
in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
We owe
our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm
developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm
protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer
drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years
on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.
But these parasites are getting
restless. They want their own lives...and will do anything to get them."
Here is the basis of the Parasite story.
The more we protect ourselves from the environment the more
we lose our immunity.
Symbogen is a large corporation that has developed an
offspring of the tape worm that will keep people healthy.
Parasite starts with one person, supposedly brain dead who
suddenly is not. Sally Michell was
in a car crash. She was brain dead
and the doctor was trying to get the family to turn off the machines when she
suddenly woke up.
Sally Mitchell had one of their tapeworms.
Look for a diverse cast of characters, tension on top of
tension and secrets after secret. All
of that makes up Parasite. Parasite
is divided into very well though out and well-written sections. Each section reveals a little more
about the puzzle that is Sally Mitchell. Part of Sally’s secret is revealed at
the very end of the book although I don’t think it is a secret from the reader,
only from Sally. This is Book One.
It is a long book at 562 pages. This is not one you read in one setting but once you get
into the story you will want to keep reading. I could see some form of this really happening so things
were not that off the wall. By
page 500 I realized very little would be solved. I was right.
Parasite ends with a cliff-hanger.
It is Book One and the last page says: “TO BE CONTINUED”
Orbit published Parasite by Mira Grant in 2013.
I received an ARC of Parasite from Netgalley.
1 comment:
Mira Grant is one of my favorite authors in this genre. She has a way I making the issue at hand fell believable. I am anxious for book two. Lovely review
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