This mid-apocalyptic breath of fresh air keeps the reader engaged while undertaking a meaningful exploration of some deep, dark questions. Her narrative style, with the tapeworm as the central character, is original and enjoyable. Grant's plot is a zombie apocalypse writ large her prose is invigorating, and the world she creates is brutal and unforgiving. Such is the case with Sally Mitchell, whose tapeworm, assuming her identity, wrestles with questions of humanness and loyalty while attempting to stop her brother, Sherman, from claiming the rest of humanity for his own. While some humans are left as zombie-like sleepwalkers, others become chimera, their tapeworms fully integrated with their host bodies. After years of dormancy, the tapeworms are waking up in their host bodies, wanting to assume their own identities. The decisions in this book feel more organic and less stupid, and the flawed antagonist keeps it interesting. The SymboGen Corporation creates tapeworms that are embedded in human bodies to enhance physical capabilities. The third and final 'tapeworm' book by Mira Grant, it sits somewhere between the first and second book in quality, more of a '3.5 star', but lets round up as I believe it deserves that. The intense final volume of Grant's Parasitology trilogy (after Symbiont) explores the outer limits and devastating effects of pharmaceuticals.
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