Chimera (Parasitology, #3)

by Mira Grant

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Chimera is the mostly satisfying conclusion to the Parasitology trilogy. Who will win in this battle for the planet, the humans or the chimeras, or will the tapeworms wipe out them all?

Sal has once again found herself separated from her chosen family, this time with USAMRIID and Sally's family. Except 1/3 of that family is in a coma, 1/3 believes Sal holds the answers to waking her up, and the other 1/3 would rather just wipe Sal off the face of the planet. So Sal finds herself locked in quarantine with the other human (non-tapeworm implanted) survivors. Except some of these survivors are suddenly finding themselves infected and "turned".

Turns out Sherman's brilliant plan for turning the rest of humankind into chimeras isn't exactly working as expected. Can Sal make it back to her family, and will they find a way to save human-kind and chimera-kind, both?

I was mostly satisfied with how things wrapped up in this trilogy. There's a fair bit more action here (I read this much faster than the second one), and I enjoyed the settings created by the author, but sometimes there's a bit too much philosophizing by Sal. There are also a few unexpected twists and turns. Overall, I was happy I read these, though they don't quite live up to what the Newsflesh trilogy was.