A review by harvestreads
Parasite by Mira Grant

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.25

Lowest possible number of stars (0.25 stars). I marked pace as slow. Please know that it is indeed slow. Extremely slow. Painfully slow. At the 30% mark in the audiobook I upped the audio speed to 200% because the pacing was just unbearable. This book should have been a single creepy short story and 0 more books should have been written—I’m not going to continue reading this 10-novel series because I don’t think this author is anywhere near clever enough to do anything interesting with their own premise. I correctly guessed the twist partway through chapter 1 yet the author insists on waiting until the final paragraph to tell us what we already knew the entire time. I can’t believe this book is like, 500 pages in print when it should have been 7 pages in a spec fic anthology, and not a particularly noteworthy spec fic anthology either.