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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Great story. Good writing. Very graphic in parts. It ended a bit abruptly, I thought.
Pure horror. Not for the squeamish and now I can never look at kitchen shears the same way again.
Scott’s writing style is very fast paced without being over descriptive. I was never at any point bored with the story line. Just putting it out there that the book is graphic and bloody. Probably not for everyone. If you like intense rated R creature feature movies, you would probably like this book.
Scott’s writing style is very fast paced without being over descriptive. I was never at any point bored with the story line. Just putting it out there that the book is graphic and bloody. Probably not for everyone. If you like intense rated R creature feature movies, you would probably like this book.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is not half as good as Stephen King, contrary to misleading reviews. It's more like Eli Roth. I don't like watching gruesome films, and you can't close your eyes during a book, so I just put this one down. I was also pretty bored by it. I don't know, find your end-of-the-world, aggressive-zombie, killer-disease book elsewhere. And if you do, let me know.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh BROTHER, this guy STINKS!
EWWWW ew ew ew oh god ew
Now that that's over with, I would like to say that this was a good book. I enjoyed the plotline and characters like Perry and Margaret, but I slightly less enjoyed the ludicrousness (if that's a word, which I hope it is) of the "voices" and the personality changes that came with them. I want to read the next one, and I'm going to as soon as the price drops, but seriously: I'll never look at a pair of tweezers the same way again. Squeamish be warned. And from me, that is not a warning to be taken lightly.
Now that that's over with, I would like to say that this was a good book. I enjoyed the plotline and characters like Perry and Margaret, but I slightly less enjoyed the ludicrousness (if that's a word, which I hope it is) of the "voices" and the personality changes that came with them. I want to read the next one, and I'm going to as soon as the price drops, but seriously: I'll never look at a pair of tweezers the same way again. Squeamish be warned. And from me, that is not a warning to be taken lightly.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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In a time where diseases and epidemics seem to be an almost daily occurrence, a new virus begins to sweep the country. Those who become infected become paranoid and eventually turn in to raving murderers, inflicting brutal damage to those around them and finally themselves.
While the CIA and the CDC try to find out who or what is behind this strange new illness, ex-football star Perry Dawsey has developed odd welts all over his body. Perry is infected and as his sickness progresses he soon begins to think and act strangely and to hear voices that no one else can hear. What's worse is what the little voices want from Perry...
Is is rare, dear readers, for a book to grab my attention from the first paragraph and not let go until the final page. Infected did just that. So much so that I finished the book in just under two days. If it weren't for my regular job and other necessities like eating and sleeping, I'm fairly sure I would have finished Infected in one day - it was just that good.
The narrative of Infected moves between two separate voices - one being the CIA/CDC tasked to find just what exactly this new virus is; the other being Perry Dawsey, one of the infected. We see Dawsey's slow descent in to madness as the virus grows, just as we see the CDC's struggle to identify just what the virus is and where it possibly could have come from.
Sigler does an excellent job of handling both story lines, weaving them together for the climactic finish.
Some passages were truly disturbing and yet I found that I could not look away; I had to read the next paragraph, read the next page, to find out what happens next.
This book is definitely not for the squeamish. Horror and thriller fans however will quite likely love this book, I certainly did.
In a time where diseases and epidemics seem to be an almost daily occurrence, a new virus begins to sweep the country. Those who become infected become paranoid and eventually turn in to raving murderers, inflicting brutal damage to those around them and finally themselves.
While the CIA and the CDC try to find out who or what is behind this strange new illness, ex-football star Perry Dawsey has developed odd welts all over his body. Perry is infected and as his sickness progresses he soon begins to think and act strangely and to hear voices that no one else can hear. What's worse is what the little voices want from Perry...
Is is rare, dear readers, for a book to grab my attention from the first paragraph and not let go until the final page. Infected did just that. So much so that I finished the book in just under two days. If it weren't for my regular job and other necessities like eating and sleeping, I'm fairly sure I would have finished Infected in one day - it was just that good.
The narrative of Infected moves between two separate voices - one being the CIA/CDC tasked to find just what exactly this new virus is; the other being Perry Dawsey, one of the infected. We see Dawsey's slow descent in to madness as the virus grows, just as we see the CDC's struggle to identify just what the virus is and where it possibly could have come from.
Sigler does an excellent job of handling both story lines, weaving them together for the climactic finish.
Some passages were truly disturbing and yet I found that I could not look away; I had to read the next paragraph, read the next page, to find out what happens next.
This book is definitely not for the squeamish. Horror and thriller fans however will quite likely love this book, I certainly did.