Symbiont, Mira Grant
Symbiont, Mira Grant
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Symbiont

Author: Mira Grant

Narrator: Christine Lakin

Unabridged: 16 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 11/25/2014

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
 
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.

Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.
 
"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams on Parasite
 
 
More from Mira Grant:
 
Parasitology
Parasite
Symbiont
Chimera
 
Newsflesh
Feed
Deadline
Blackout
Feedback
 
Rise

About Mira Grant

Mira Grant is the author of the New York Times bestselling Newsflesh trilogy, along with many other works of biomedical science fiction and horror. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award multiple times, and her first book, Feed, was chosen as one of NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers. She lives outside Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on January 08, 2020

-- hear me? This is Harry Lo of KNBR, the Bay Area's real rock, broadcasting live because I have nothing else to do and no other way of getting the message that I'm still alive in here out to the world. I have now been broadcasting for twenty days straight. It's almost Halloween, kids, and if anyon......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on July 14, 2017

Yep. I gave a Mira Grant book 2 stars. It pains me to do so, it really does, but this series, in general, has not impressed me at all. Parasite/Symbiont was intended originally to be a duology but it has now transformed into a trilogy with Symbiont becoming nothing more than a seriously massive tome......more

Goodreads review by Lena on May 06, 2017

The SymbiontDrinking Game One shot whenever Sal faints, passes out, or is tranquilized. Two shots whenever Sal descends into the "hot warm dark". Read this way it can be five stars and a blessed brake from holiday mayhem. The best thing about this book is its irreverence. There's a character who is......more

Goodreads review by Ellen Gail on December 17, 2017

What's that? I actually finished a book? I know I was surprised too. 'Twas a good book too. Not as good as Parasite, but a solid sequel. I'm still on board for book three, coming at my reading list in 2018!......more

Goodreads review by Kerri (Book Hoarder) on July 10, 2020

November can't come soon enough! Edit: OH MY GOD THIS IS OUT AND I FORGOT as;lkfjas;ldkfjal;sdkjf;alskd ~*~*~ Love, love, love. Will write a proper review later. <3......more

Quotes

"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton."—John Joseph Adam on Parasite

"Readers with strong stomachs will welcome this unusual take on the future."—Kirkus Reviews on Parasite

"Fans of [the Newsflesh] series will definitely want to check this new book out. But fans of Michael Crichton-style technothrillers will be equally enthralled: as wild as Grant's premise is, the novel is firmly anchored in real-world science and technology."—Booklist on Parasite

"Grant extends the zombie theme of her Newsflesh trilogy to incorporate thoughtful reflections on biomedical issues that are both ominously challenging and eerily plausible. Sally is a complex, compassionate character, well suited to this exploration of trust, uncertainty, and the price of progress."—Publishers Weekly on Parasite

"It's a well-grounded medical wariness that gets at the heart of the what the Parasitology series will be asking: What happens when the cure is worse than the disease?"—NPR Books on Parasite

"An exceptionally creepy medical-horror thriller that's the perfect spine-tingling read for Halloween...[a] roller coaster ride."—RT Book Reviews on Parasite (4 1/2 stars)

"Deft cultural touches, intriguing science, and amped-up action will delight Grant's numerous fans."—Publishers Weekly on Deadline

"The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written."—Sci-Fi Magazine on Feed

"A masterpiece of suspense."—Publishers Weekly on Feed (Starred Review)

Awards

  • NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers
  • Romantic Times' Best SF Novel of the Year
  • The Hugo Best Novel
  • John W. Campbell Award
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