Chimera (Parasitology, #3)

by Mira Grant

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Unfortunately, this trilogy never does recover from the unnecessary middle book. Yet again we have nearly 500 pages of not much happening. It starts where book #2 left off, with Sal kidnapped yet again. She escapes. Then her comrades get kidnapped. So she goes back to the second place where she was held hostage to get help rescuing friends from the first place where she was held hostage. And then suddenly the book is over.

To recap, after an intriguing start in the first book, nearly 1000 pages are spent on a merry-go-round of kidnapping and escaping.

It seems like such a waste to have this interesting set-up and world-building but not to have the characters do anything that drives the overall events in this world forward. It feels like a half-baked idea that wasn't fully fleshed out and no one stepped in to edit it.