Parasite

I really wanted to like this book. However, the mc was just not any kind of believable for me. She woke up from a coma, with literally NO memory. She can't talk, she had to relearn everything. Including English, which she apparently mastered in 6 months. Oh, not only that, but she's a fairly normal functional adult? It seems to me that someone who is mentally 6 months old, whether or not your body is in your twenties, wouldn't be making conscious efforts to be adulting. Shit, I don't want to be adulting.

It was alright!
Not good enough that I want to immediately read the next one, but I'll likely seek it out sometime in the future when I don't have other stuff to read.
The story was interesting, it's a different take on zombies, even if some bits of it were predictable. All the characters sound the same, and when that happens I imagine that's just what the author sounds like. It was fine, because I like her sense of humour, but I like it when characters can be more individual.

The ending of this book was a disaster - there's no resolution, and the supposed cliffhanger is a piece of information that became obvious about halfway through the book. Avoid.

I really enjoyed the Feed trilogy so I pre-ordered Parasite.

Feed had the brothers with their chemistry, it had of course very cool action and good humor.

None here.

And although the zombie thing is of curse not something to close to reality, I don't have issues with

that :), the main idea we have here is to far from reality.

I mean I knew the author she studies hard the context so I thought different.

I don't know, for me was a disappointment, I think she writes cool, Feed was really really fun to read

but I think she should drop the next books to follow parasite and do something else!

This book lost a star only because I figured out the main character's thing so early and had to wait the entire book for her to get there. I mean, who couldn't figure it out from all the “hot, warm dark” dreams? There were still a couple of twists that I didn't see coming, and that was very nice.

I'm definitely going to pre-order the next one. And if she ever decided to sell the whole “Don't Go Out Alone” book, I would buy that too.

One of the things that I really wanted after reading the Newsflesh series (best zombie books ever) was to see what Mira would do with the story of the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. I got a little hint of that in places here, and it just makes me want to read that book even more.

Disclaimer: I received an eARC through netgalley.com.

Only Mira Grant could write a scientifically accurate, character driven horror book that leaves you wishing the next book in the series was out. Parasite is a wonderful what-if book of the future where designer drugs that make many illnesses a thing of the past. Whereas, you'd be thinking this was a prelude to a zombie novel, you're wrong. Very wrong. The hint of what's to come lies in the novel's title.

At its core, Parasite, is the story about survival and the pitfalls of designer drugs. Sally, our protagonist, survived a fatal car accident, mostly due to a new drug manufactured by SymboGen. Six years later and Sal is owned by the company, for testing. They want to know how their product helped her survive. Of course, this being a horror book, things in this world, go horribly wrong and Sal finds herself at the core of a new global threat.

Grant writes wonderful worlds that are built as much as one can on reality. She has done her home work to make the designer drug featured in Parasite as real as she can. The results of the book are amazing and one heck of a fun ride. The characters, are very much alive and each has their own personality. The way the book cliff-hangs just begs the readers in wanting more faster.

I really enjoyed this book. In fact, I read it straight through and could not put it down because I wanted to know what happened next. I recommend this book for all of Mira Grant's fans, and those who want to delve into a horror series that isn't as gory as most of the books can be.