This book was nothing like I expected it to be. Scott Sigler definitely has a knack for discriptive writing. Some of the scenes were so graphic it turned my stomach. While I did not paricularly enjoy the story, I couldn't put the book down. I had to know what was going to happen next. I was disappointed at the end, however, because I felt like the story just ended for the sake of ending and didn't fully come to a conclusion. I did see that there is a sequel, so I'm guessing it will pick up where this one left off.

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Graphic novel, not for the faint of heart I really got into it for some odd reason, hubby said he screamed at some of the things the infected man did to himself. I liked it all but the ending seemed like they ran out of time/effort in my opinion. I liked the style it was written although it was not my normal genre.

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I had my doubts about this book and put it off for a while. My boyfriend ended up reading it first. He enjoyed it but said that he couldn't have anything to do with it when it was around time to eat. The gore was so detailed that it made him sick. My first thought was... cool. I like anything that can really "get" to me. It makes that book stand out. I would have to say that the gore is pretty intense. I cringed a few times throughout the book. Found myself scratching when it probably wasn't necessary. But I didn't get sick and didn't think it was too bad.
The book is about these people that get "infected". When they do they go crazy. If they are killed either by themselves or by others, their body starts breaking down and turning into a black sludge before anyone can examine the body. How do you diagnose and cure something you can't even check into?
I will most definitely read the next book. I am very curious to see where this goes. I highly recommend this book if you like a bit of suspense, humor and gore all mixed in one.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this is a guy's book. The constant talk of needing to scratch your balls, your a$$, etc was a little nauseating for me. The story itself was ok if you can breathe thru the blanketing layer of testosterone. Not my favorite book by far but I suppose not the worst (tho close).

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This book is about people getting infected by these strange spores that comes to life once it gets into the body, borrowing your body's raw materials to react a living organism that worms into your nervous system including your brain, and through chemical processes and neural-tapping starts to control the person. I love the detail to science, and then you see what it does to a person when the books follow this wonderful character by the name of Perry Dawsey, who was this HUGE ex-football player who could have easily become a major NFL star if not for a devastating knee injury. Well, this guy is TOUGH, and even as he gets infected, he becomes the only character that you feel has some hope of coming against these impossibly adaptable entities. The characters are 3 dimensional and you really get riveted into these people, but also the science, the military response, and the mystery of finding out what these organisms actually are. It reads like a movie, if someone makes this into a movie w/o changing any of the storyline, it would be an awesome movie. I had so much fun reading this, and became obsessed about reading the next book.

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It was good.

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