Symbiont (Parasitology, #2)

by Mira Grant

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The secret is out, among those in the know -- the tapeworms are taking over!

Sal, newly revealed to be a tapeworm living in human skin with 6 years of "How to Be a Human" classes, has accepted her status as a chimera, but is struggling a bit with how to help the thousands of people with tapeworms who have eaten their brains beyond recognition. Her boyfriend, Dr. Nathan Kim and his mother, Dr. Shanti Cale, one of the creators of the tapeworms, are working non-stop on a solution. But that's difficult to do when Sal keeps getting herself kidnapped for various reasons, by various sides of the battle for the planet's future.

I still enjoyed this book, but it was a bit more of a slog and took me longer to read. I felt like there was a fair amount of dead time punctuated by brief periods of action. But overall I like the creativity of the story, especially how Grant imagines the ways survivors get by and hide themselves. In an unusual move, I will be jumping right into the third book in this trilogy!