I can’t believe I read this even after I’ve promised myself I’d stop after being disappointed by book 1 in the series. But hey, at least I can write home about it.

Synopsis: THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US.
The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world’s population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.
Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.

Again, Sally finds herself in the middle of a scandal, following up from book 1 where humanity has decided to test a genetically engineered tapeworm who has decided it no longer wants to live in the digestive tract but wants to move upwards to the brain. This book offers such astounding quotes like:

“I can’t believe I’m a worm!”

and “I’m a whole new species”.

No sweetheart, you’re not a new species, you’re a very susceptible amnesiac who believes her new personality is due to a worm and not to a blow in the prefrontal cortex. But hey, plot’s gotta plot.

Alongside her lover boy Nick, she faces troubles like: corporate espionage charges, running away from family, getting into trouble with the in-laws. All done in a droning and repetitive manner that by the end of it you’d wish you were infected with the same worm just to lose your memories of this book.

Straight to the charity pile. In the off chance the author finds this post, one piece of advice, please make the books more succinct and add a bit more horror other than describing a decaying body that was once a woman who had a worm who died of starvation.

Such mediocre writing. I will read the third crap book in this pile as I’m committed but will need to take a break and read something else in the meantime.