physically, she is 26, but she has had to reacquaint herself with her family, learn how to read, and basically figure out how to become human all over again.

after a devastating car accident, she was diagnosed as irreparably brain dead, and was about to have her plug pulled when she suddenly woke up with absolutely no memory of her life before the hospital. With this book, we are asked to rally behind sal - a young woman who has, essentially, only been alive for six years. the characters are a little less sparkling, the science a little more dubious, there are some problems with her broadcasting situations that should have been surprising when revealed…īut honestly, the newsflesh trilogy took a little while to work its magic on me, so i have really high hopes for the rest of this series - i want to know where this is going.

and when i finally started it myself, at first i was puzzled and scoldy: 'why didn't you love this? this is great! this is everything a mira grant book should be!'īut as i got further along, i had to admit that on every level, it is a lesser version of the glory that is the newsflesh trilogy. Greg got to this before i did, even though my desire for it was so great, so while he was reading it, i kept grilling him for feedback, and he was having a sort of tepid response to it. Seriously, TWO tapeworm novels in just a matter of months? i am on a roll, boy howdy.Īnd as cool as tapewormy horror novels are, i was going to read this no matter what it was about, because i love mira grant.

I'm calling it now - this is the year of the tapeworm.

Parasite by mira grant