By the end of the book I was skimming quickly because I didn’t dare read with comprehension-I get enough of this kind of nonsense on tests from students who haven’t actually studied the material and are just tossing in random biology words they know into sentences hoping it makes some sort of sense.īOOK REVIEW - “The Chemist,” by Stephenie Meyer. The scientists in it are caricatures of “mad” scientists, the explanation of the genetics and genes and splicing is painful to read, and the rational for using it doesn’t make any sense. Not only would you feel something chewing through your intestine but the resulting hole would leak intestinal content into the abdomen and you’d likely die of sepsis rather quickly (and you’d definitely notice that). Even if hers were genetically modified to have mouth and teeth she has them burrowing out of the intestine unnoticed.

They also don’t like competition so in the intestine there can be only one (they’ll eat any competition, which is quite a feat for an organism that can be found in clusters, have no mouth or teeth and absorb nutrients through their body). Her’s have a mouth, teeth, musculature to crawl around and burrow through the body, and a long gut. Her tapeworms have all the things tapeworms don’t have. She grabs names of parasites from a biology book (she recommends Carl Zimmer’s Parasite Rex, which is old but quite a good read), but has no real concept of what the parasite is.įor example, tapeworms. After reading it and now your review I suspect she and Meyer went to the same school of writing throw out a sentence, fill in biology terms that may or may not make sense.

Someone asked me to read Mira Grant’s first trilogy book Parasite to see if the biology made sense (I’m a biologist).

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