Treated myself to a wishlist book

Started reading it today and will take it with me during my holidays in Belgium.

I probably wouldn’t have bought this book if I had known it’s a dystopian fiction novel. It’s not really my type of genre. After finishing this book, I’m still not a fan.

The beginning was interesting, with a classroom full of kids kept in a super high security prison environment. You start to wonder what happened, who they are and who is keeping them in there. But personally I lost interest when the camp fell apart and the main characters were on the run for “hungries” (basically flesh eating zombies) and “junkers” (scavenging humans). The characters were very black and white. The scientist, who acts like the results of her research justifies all means (seriously, the ethical committee was surely taking a break in this dystopian universe). The teacher who just wants to help the little girl. And the cold-blooded sergant who is responsible for everyone’s survival. I liked how the author thought about the infectious parasite’s life cycle and based it on actual parasites in nature. But sometimes it also felt a bit like showing off the research he did for this book. Especially when it came to naming lab equipment, it looked like he just visited one histology lab and thought that those were all the state-of-the-art lab techniques used by scientists everywhere and in any field. I mean, seriously... The scientist nearly orgasms because she sees a microtome... she also used that microtome to cut fresh tissue, which is factually incorrect as it would have to be preceeded by at least a day of very boring PFA fixing and parafin-embedding. I’ld be impressed if she could have done some whole-genome sequencing in that driving lab trailer.

Going to give this book to a preggo friend who needs to take it easy for two weeks.

My friend gave the book back to me. No Journal Entry. I will leave this book in the airBnB bookshelf.