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Infected (Infected, #1)
This book has been on my wishlist since 2008, but it just never really made its way into my hands. Until now, when we have a couple things align to make that happen. The first thing that it’s October. I love October – it’s my favorite reading month, the month when I read all sorts of demented horror-y stuff all month long and don’t feel a bit guilty about it. Err… not that I do anyway, but, y’know, I try to vary my reading and stuff. So, right, October, horror required. Check.
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This book has been on my wishlist since 2008, but it just never really made its way into my hands. Until now, when we have a couple things align to make that happen. The first thing that it’s October. I love October – it’s my favorite reading month, the month when I read all sorts of demented horror-y stuff all month long and don’t feel a bit guilty about it. Err… not that I do anyway, but, y’know, I try to vary my reading and stuff. So, right, October, horror required. Check.The next thing is that I’ve been working on a couple different knitted projects lately. One of them I wanted to get done soonish as I need to mail it out to someone as a gift, and so, I needed to multitask. I am not of the accomplished Knitter’s Guild level 60, and therefore I gotta look at what I’m knitting. So reading is out, unless it’s an audio. So, I headed over to Audible, where I poked around a while, and listened to some samples and finally decided on Infected.Download complete, I can be productive while getting my horror fix in, and this makes Becky a happy girl.So, on to my review.I admit that I did not care much for the reading of this one, mainly due to the character voices. It’s read by the author and I’m rather, err, finicky when it comes to audiobook readers. The reader is almost always something that I discuss when reviewing an audiobook.The voices that Sigler gave the characters just didn’t seem to fit the characters much to me. Dew especially. To me, the way he was read sounded like George W. Bush, and… well, that’s just weird. I’m guessing that maybe he was going for a kind of commanding presence type, the kind that doesn’t need to raise his voice to make people sit up and pay attention. The type that has that deadly charisma that makes people uneasy for unknown reasons, you know? But the actual voice didn’t do any of this for the character, and so it kept throwing me off.Likewise, Margaret Montoya’s voice was wrong for her, too. Aside from the female voices in general, I just didn’t really get Margaret’s having a Hispanic accent, considering that she grew up (or at least went to school) in the US. And then, when she’s supposed to be kind of ruthless and demanding to get her way, it was hard for me to believe, because instead of sounding stern and serious, she sounded shrill and scared.Not everyone is cut out to do voice work though. I am almost positive that I am not, despite my nitpicking ability when listening to others. Stephen King is not. I love his books and his writing, but I cannot listen to his reading voice for any length of time. I have my fingers crossed that a new audiobook version of Bag of Bones will be put out one day, read by someone else. His talent is writing, not reading, that’s all.That being said, I did enjoy Sigler’s main narrative reading. I thought the tone and the pacing and even the little bits of irony or humor were great, and these sections (most of the book, truthfully) kept me engaged and interested in the audio. And there were voices I liked, after they grew on me. Perry is one of those, as is Otto. I thought that both sounded a bit too deep and slow initially, but then after a while, I adjusted to them and ended up liking them both. Otto, though, reminded me of someone else’s voice, and I just couldn’t place it until almost the end of the book, when it came to me that he sounded exactly like Darnell from My Name Is Earl. Kinda reminded me of him character-wise as well, honestly. I like Darnell and I liked Otto. I’m hoping he has a bigger role in the second book.Last thing regarding the audio itself (promise!). I’m not a fan of performance audiobooks. I don’t mind full cast audios, but I don’t generally like sound effects and whatnot in them. To me it’s distracting and weird. I just want the story, no bells, no whistles. But the way the Triangles were handled was great. I liked it quite a lot. Very creepy, especially when unexpected at 3am and the effect is just the smallest ‘What the fuck was that?!’ sound — at least at first. It grew, obviously, but at first I thought I was hearing things. VERY CREEPY. I think, creep-out factor wise, it seemed like it would be much more effective in audio than print.Storywise, I really enjoyed this one. Different parts reminded me of other things that I’ve enjoyed, and it was interesting to find these comparisons while listening. Some off of the top of my head would be Outbreak The Shining , and the TV show Heroes. I am not sure if these were intentional “homages” or if they are just coincidental, but either way, it worked for me.I did like most of the characters too. I very much liked Perry, and right from the start I connected with him. Maybe that’s proof that there’s something wrong with me, because I liked him because of the meanness in him that he tries to overcome. That history of abuse and anger issues and aggression that he worked so hard to control in himself drew me in and I immediately liked him for the mere fact of trying to be better, and to break the cycle and not be the same person his father was.Later on, I was kind of in awe of him, for his sheer willpower and strength of mind. My goodness… the things that he endured… Yikes. I stub my toe and I practically need a Jazzy so I can get around. This dude is freaking superhuman when I think of the massive amounts of pain and mutilation he dealt with. I was definitely rooting for him, and though things turned out differently than I’d hoped, I’m satisfied with the resolution, and look forward to reading the 2nd book to see where things pick up with the rest of the cast.I also liked that Sigler didn’t pull many punches with the violence or gore. It seemed like the perfect amount, and when things were hinted at, it was done in a way that worked just as well, if not better, than spelling everything out might have. There was only one cringeworthy moment for me, which was Perry’s career-ending injury, but thankfully that was just a passing reference. *shudder* Yeesh. Where’s my Jazzy? I have sympathy pains!I thought that the pacing was great, and that the tension kept on ratcheting up. I liked how the narrative toggled between different people and kept tabs on all. I thought it worked well here. There were a few times that I thought one person (usually Perry) hogged the focus a little too long, but usually very shortly it’d shift and catch us up on the others. I wasn’t bored, that’s for sure, even in the more technical or medical explanatory sections. These were handled well, too, I might add. A little bit of info-dump, but necessary and relevant and I’m glad they were there. And they were only inserted as necessary, so as the story progressed, so did our understanding of the Triangles, which is as it should be.Overall, I enjoyed this and will definitely be picking up the 2nd book.Horror October 2011: #4
Infected by Scott Sigler book review
Infected is a book with a somewhat unusual publishing history. It began (and indeed can still be found) on Podiobooks.com as a series of freely available audio podcast readings by Sigler himself. It has however since made the leap to being published print novel and to the surprise of many made it on to the New York Times best-seller list.
Since the third and final book in the Infected Trilogy came out recently, I decided to reread the first two entries in preparation. Infected was the book of Sigler’s I most eagerly anticipated reading when I initially saw the synopses and it is likely the one that most sticks in my mind. However upon rereading the book I find myself slightly less than enchanted with Sigler’s work. The good elements are still there, but some of the inequities which upon first reading were covered by the sheer shock value of his horror on second reading seemed a bit more serious, which is why I now find myself giving a less positive rating than I would’ve expected.
Infected is, without any prevarication, a horror novel. And there is absolutely no denying that it is in the horror elements that Sigler truly excels. The story involves an alien invasion which takes the form of microscopic machines that infect their hosts, and slowly grow, taking over the hosts body cell by cell, and turning the hosts’ mind into a paranoid nightmare of violence. The story is told from two perspectives, that of Perry Dawsy, an ex American football player with an anger problem who finds himself suffering the ravages of the infection, and the CIA team lead by epidemiologist Margaret Montoya and military officer Dew Philips, following a trail of murders across America and desperately trying to piece together the course of the infection and the true purpose of the parasites from what is left behind.
Sigler writes with a quick abrupt style which actually reminded me far more of old time radio dramas than a novel. Chapters are extremely short and cover usually just one scene. Each chapter slowly mounts with tension, whether through the CIA finding or deducing new horrors or through cold but at the same time clinically chilling descriptions of the bio chemical progress of the parasites. All these however pale in comparison to the true visceral horror of reading of the progress of Perry’s own infection, since between the psychotic influence of the parasites, his own propensity for anger and violence and a desire to rid himself of the organisms growing inside him at any cost. Perry’s battle with the parasites is without a doubt one of the single most gory stomach churning pieces of absolute blood drenched horror I’ve ever read. Sigler gives just enough detail of the actual feeling of disgust, the true horror of finding alien things growing inside your body and the different flavours of agony you might have to inflict on yourself to be rid of them, plus of course the ubiquitous gore to evoke a real skin deep sense of nauseating dread, particularly since as with a well plotted horror he foreshadows some of the worst stages of Perry’s condition in other parts of the book, meaning that you get to experience all the nasty surprises first hand along with Perry. I also give Sigler credit for never descending into the realms of simply describing torture. Indeed while Perry does some pretty extreme things to his body it is always he who does them often through a misplaced sense of strength or wishing to be tough. Neither does Sigler fall into the trap many zombie writers do and simply believe describing blood alone is scary, indeed it is the very physical visceral nature of the descriptions of the infection that give the real sense of horror as much as the extra side order of Hollywood tomato ketchup.
Combine this with several descriptions of murders that have a bizarre sense of humour about them and an alien invasion which is characterized by everything we don’t know, and the horror aspects couldn’t be executed more perfectly.
The problem is, that really is where things stop. Even the most major characters in the book are fairly one note affairs whose motivations can be summed up in one short sentence. Dew Philips for example is an army veteran who is concerned over the death of his partner, Margaret Montoya seems to have nothing in her mind but her career, while more minor characters (most of whom just exist to be victims), simply seem cardboard cut-out stereotypes of American family life, cute pigtail wearing girl child, university student or family man, indeed some victims we don’t even get this much detail of. In fairness other than Dawsy most victims simply exist to show another progression in the infection or exhibit some more psychotic tendencies brought on by the parasites, however once again it would’ve been nice if Sigler had another string to this particular bow.
The character who disappointed me most however upon rereading is Perry Dawsy. He begins the book as a man struggling with anger with the help of a sarcastic but faithful best friend. It then transpires much of his anger is due to an abusive father who frequently beat him and told him to be tough. The problem however is that as he spirals into madness and starts extreme acts of self mutilation and paranoia in an effort to rid himself of the infection, Dawsy does not progress so much as he literally becomes his father, adopting his father’s attitudes and even speech patterns to those around him. We are left therefore with a story which effectively has no hero, just a very hard working villain battling against an unknown threat. Indeed I do hope there is some degree of redemption for Dawsy offered in the rest of the series, though I am not holding out too much hope since it often seems that Sigler’s characters are limited to absolute hard cases and stereotypes who become victims, and do not progress so much as survive the horror.
With its thin characters, fast chapters and abrupt though dramatic writing style, the infection itself is pretty much all there is to hold the reader’s interest. This it does simply by the fascination of shear gory ouch factor, however once you get past that factor there really isn’t much of a story left behind, everything is shock value and while the shock’s couldn’t be executed more perfectly they do ware a bit thin especially on rereading.
6/10 Blood proves thicker than character
Scott Sigler’s Infected Series
About the author:
Born: Cheboygan, Michigan
Education:
B.A.-Journalism – Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan
B.S.-Marketing –Cleary College, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Website: http://scottsigler.com/
Thriller Sub-genre: Techno-thriller, Medical Thriller
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Future of the series: Sigler wrote this series as a trilogy and Pandemic was the last novel of the trilogy.
The Simon Review
With the wintery weather upon us, the cold and flu season approaching, and with a hint of Ebola in the air, I thought that a good medical thriller on infectious diseases would be the icing on the cake, so I chose Scott Sigler’s Infected series to review. This series is a mixture of several genres, horror, medical thriller, techno-thriller, and science fiction. Horror, because the infection is parasitic and there is nothing like parasites to bring out the EWWWW factor in all of us; a medical thriller, because it is an infection, duh; a techno-thriller, because of the use of really neat weaponry and technology; and science fiction, because aliens are in the picture.
As you can guess from the name of the series, the storyline is about battling a very unique infection which ultimately becomes contagious. What is unique about the infection is that it is introduced to planet Earth by a highly advance extraterrestrial life form that wants to take over our planet and also has the unfortunate effect of converting the infected into homicidal maniacs. The trilogy covers different stages of the infection. In the first novel, Infection, the pathogenic entities are introduced to selective individuals including an All-American ex-football player known as ‘Scary’ Perry Dawson. Dawson isn’t about to let some parasitic infection take over his mind and body and he ruthlessly fights back the enemy that is inside him. While Dawson is battling the evil within him, a team of experts are trying to track down this disease and those infected to determine if it is natural or a bioterrorist threat and eventually how to stop it. The head of the team is Murray Longworth who is the Deputy Director of the CIA and eventually becomes the director for the Department of Special Threats. Longworth’s team consist of Doctor Margaret Montoya, an epidemiologist from the CDC; Dew Philips, a CIA operative who was also a soldier under Murray Longworth’s command during the Vietnam War; Amos Braun, assistant to Montoya and an expert in parasitology and biochemistry; and CIA agent Clarence Otto assigned to protect Margaret Montoya.
In the second novel, Contagious, the infection “mutates’ in an extraterrestrial sort of way and becomes contagious. Though Dawson overcame the infection in the first novel, it is not without long lasting effects and as a result of these effects; he is able to track down others that are infected. I think the best part of this novel is the development of a friendship between Dawson and Dew Phillips in a manner that only two hardened testosterone driven warriors can maintain; it brought tears to my eyes. The mutated form of the infection creates a leader to organize the other plague-ridden individuals to accomplish a task that the evil alien race wants to complete. This leader happens to be a cute prepubescent girl with blond hair and blue eyes. This little girl turns into a truly evil creature that is truly annoying to the point that you really want the military to take her out.
In the third novel, Pandemic, the contagion has infected the entire world and it is up to Longworth’s merry band of followers along with some very brave Navy Seals to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of ending the pandemic. A couple of really good characters are added, Dr. Tim Feely, and Cooper Mitchell. Feely is a character that Sigler took from another one of his novels, Ancestor, and is a wise-cracking, coward turned warrior with a PhD. Cooper Mitchell is the ultimate hero of the story and manages to keep himself alive under considerably difficult conditions to ultimately save the world. Of course, the true heroes are the Navy Seals that come to rescue Mitchell, and during their ultimate battle scene, you feel like shouting out, WAY TO GO, DUDES.
I read the entire series back to back and I was mentally exhausted after I finished. The series is not for the faint of heart as it is intense and graphically violent with the worst that humanity has to offer. Sigler originally released the series as a podiobook in discrete episodes over time and developed a huge following. I think I would have enjoyed the series more, if I took a break between each book. The series must be read in order.
Simon’s pick:
Most Favorite Novel in the Series-Infected-because I thought that Dawson’s battle with his own infection was pretty awesome.
Least Favorite Novel in the Series-Pandemic-I think I was getting burned out at this point
What about the science? Sigler is not a scientist but he does explain the science reasonably well. As for his portrayal of the science, the underlying scientific concepts are real, but the application is totally science fiction. Could the scenario of an infection in the manner that Sigler presents be possible? I highly doubt it, but you never know.
The Margaret Montoya Technical Word in Review: Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)-In order to understand what hematopoietic stem cells are, one needs to first understand what exactly is a stem cell. Stem cells are cells that are waiting for a signal that will allow them to differentiate or change into a more specialized cell. Stem cells fall into two categories, embryonic, which are stem cells that exist at the early stages of embryonic development, and adult stem cells which are found throughout the body. The term adult stem cell is a rather confusing, as these cells exist in an organism at the point just before and after birth, meaning they exist in children as well as adults. Adult stem cells exist to replace dead or dying cells particularly in tissue that have a high turnover rate, such as in the intestine and in blood. Hematopoietic stem cells are adult stem cells that exist in the bone marrow and will differentiate into the different types of blood cells. Blood cells fall into three categories; red blood cells, platelets or yellow blood cells, and white blood cells which are also referred to as leukocytes. White blood cells are the cells of the immune system which are made up of a variety of differentiated cells that provide different functions during an immune response. There are five different types of white blood cells; lymphocytes – which include T cells, B cells and natural killer cells which have a variety of functions that include the production of antibodies; eosinophils– target parasitic infections; basophils– cells involved in allergic reactions; neutrophils– the ‘kamakaze pilots’ of the immune system that target bacteria and fungi and contain cell digesting material known as lysosomes which degrade the pathogen as well as themselves; monocytes– the cleanup crew after the neutrophils have done their damage, they circulate in the blood and will migrate into tissue to eat up debris as well as pathogens. Neutrophils are the problem child in Sigler’s novel Pandemic.
Embryonic Stem Cells
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A very specific type of his stem cells, however, had been programmed to make something never seen before the infection that overwhelmed the Los Angeles. That special type: hematopoietic stem cells, also known as HSCs. HSCs have the ability to produce any type of blood cell. Charlie’s HSCs had been hacked to produce one specific creation, a modification of something common throughout the human body: neutrophils, more commonly called white blood cells.-Pandemic
Books in the Series by Order:
Most Favorite in the series: Pandemic with a score of 4.25
Least Favorite in the series: Infected with a score of 3.86
Based on overall ratings from Goodreads, Library Thing, Rakuten Kobo, and Amazon
#1 Infected- 2008
First Line:
Alida Garcia stumbled through the dense winter woods, blood marking her long path, a bright red comet trail against the blazing white snow.
Characters
“Scary” Perry Dawsey: All American football player whose career in football ended when his knee was damaged during a game. Perry is one of the infected. Dew Phillips: CIA operative, ex-Vietnam veteran Dr. Margaret Montoya: CDC epidemiologist Murray Longworth: Deputy Director of the CIA Clarence Otto: CIA agent and romantic interest of Montoya Amos Braun: Parasitologist and assistant to Montoya Frank Cheng: CDC scientist
The Setting
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
People infected with this crap aren’t human anymore.
From The Best Bad Reviews:
Stormy’s husband from Goodreads left this review of Scott Sigler’s novel Infected. What an obedient husband, so how did you come up with a 3-star rating?
My wife asked me to put this on her goodreads. So here it is.
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Justin Cawthorne (dot) com
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Piggie’s Place (Audiobook)
Horror Made
CoffeeAndTrainSpotting
Bona Fide Book Reviews
Amazon Rating: 4.32 out of 5 stars based on 898 ratings
Rakuten Kobo Rating: 4.37 out of 5 stars based on 27 ratings
GoodReads Rating: 3.84 out of 5 stars based on 19,214 ratings
Library Thing Rating: 3.71 out of 5 stars based on 483 ratings
Total Score 3.86 (updated 10/21/20)
#2-Contagious- 2008
Winner of the 2010 Our History Project Literary Excellence Silver Award for Best Audio Book
First Line:
It had to be a joke.
Characters
“Scary” Perry Dawsey, Dew Phillips, Dr. Margaret Montoya, Murray Longworth, Clarence Otto, and Amos Braun Chelsea Jewell: A child with the infection
The Setting
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.
Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the disease’s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nation’s best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if they’re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors.
These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but that’s not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat — one that comes from a most unexpected source — may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.
“It’s contagious,” Margaret said quietly. “It finally happened.”
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Amazon Rating: 4.71 out of 5 stars based on 380 ratings
Rakuten Kobo Rating: 3.90 out of 5 stars based on 10 ratings
GoodReads Rating: 4.12 out of 5 stars based on 9,945 ratings
Library Thing Rating: 3.95 out of 5 stars based on 200 ratings
Total Score 4.14 (updated 10/21/20)
#3-Pandemic- 2014
Listed #94 out 553 on Goodreads Best Technothriller Ever Book List
Listed #86 out of 115 on Goodreads Best Medical Thrillers Book List
Listed #105 out of 168 on Goodreads Best Science Thrillers Book List
First Line:
For a hundred thousand years, the machine traveled in a straight line.
Characters
Dr. Margaret Montoya, Murray Longworth, Frank Cheng and Clarence Otto Dr. Tim Feely: Geneticist and bioinformatician working on the triangle project
The Setting
Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Lake Michigan
The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That harmless-looking canister has languished under thousands of feet of water for years, undisturbed and impotent…until now.
Days after the new disease is unleashed, a quarter of the human race is infected. Entire countries have fallen. And our planet’s fate now rests on a small group of unlikely heroes, racing to find a cure before the enemies surrounding them can close in.
As for America, the final death tally was estimated at over thirty million. No disaster in the nation’s history even came close. By comparison, the influenza epidemic of the 1918 pandemic had killed some 675,000 Americans, and the Civil War around 700,000.
From The Best Bad Reviews:
Catfantastic on Goodreads reviewed Scott Sigler’s novel Pandemic. Things must be pretty bad if you are rooting for the bad guy.
I didn’t like any of these characters. I didn’t enjoy spending time in their heads. I didn’t care about what they were doing or which calibre they were doing it with. By the end of the trilogy, I caught myself thinking that if this was all there was to Sigler’s version of humanity, maybe the aliens deserved to win.
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Review: Infected by Scott Sigler – Creature From The Book Lagoon
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
Infected by Scott Sigler. Book #1 in the Infected trilogy. Narrated by Scott Sigler, Published by Random House Audio, April 2008. Run time of 11 hours and 27 minutes.
*Possible Triggers: Body horror/ mutilation, lots of gore.
Infected is one crazy story and I mean, like…. This shit is bananas… B-A-N-A-N-A-S! You can always count on Scott Sigler for a wild whisker twister. This was gross in all the best ways! Most of the time I had this –> D: look plastered on my face the entire time! Lots of messed up stuff goes down. That is your last warning!
The main characters are not overly likable. I didn’t really connect with anyone. BUT… I didn’t really care. Why? Because this book was just so interesting. I was very entertained by the craziness, but also but the fascinating plot. The plot just had me so curious about WTF was going on and WTF was going to happen next!
The story is very creative. It is a really brilliant take on an infection breaking out. I was beyond intrigued with the bizarre, gore-drenched carnage fueled mystery as it escalates and unfolds. Even if the characters didn’t really grab me, I was very curious about what would happen next in the series. Infected definitely makes me want to know what else will happen, how will humans be able to win over this threat??
The audiobook is narrated by the author. He does a decent job. Better than most authors. Silger brought energy and passion. It more than made up for not being the best at female voices. There are a few nice sound effects here and there. Pretty fun to listen to.
Infected is super crazy, fresh fun. The story is creative and unique. Buckets of blood and body horror! It was EWWWW a majority of the time. I loved it! 😀 The plot and the ending makes me pretty curious to see where book 2 will go.
Review: Infected by Scott Sigler
Growing up I watched this horror movie called Frailty with my mom. The movie had no cheap scares or gore, but every night for of the following week I had nightmares that eventually led to me sleeping with a light on for years to come. Ever since then it seems as though horror flicks just can’t phase me. Directors are too focused on the gore-factor to see what is really important. The psychological thrills. INFECTED by Scott Sigler (Amazon) promised to be a mind bender, a truly terrifying read. Promises aside, it doesn’t quite deliver.
Perry Dawsey has been infected with an alien virus from space. A virus that turns its hosts into paranoid, violent psychopaths. After a childhood of physical abuse at the hands of his father, Perry is already more than halfway to becoming a paranoid, violent psychopath on his own. CIA agent Dew Philips and Center for Disease Control epidemiologist Margaret are in a race against time to unravel the mystery of the “triangles” and stop them before they can spread. Can Perry ignore the homicidal whispers in his head? Will Dew and Margaret be able to piece together the puzzles and save the world?
So it sounds like what we got here is Invasion of the Body Snatchers mixed with The Crazies, and really for all intents and purposes that’s about right. The story is told from the perspective of the three protagonists, though it follows “Scary” Perry Dawsey for the majority of the romp. Smart move on Sigler’s part. Perry is the only character with any personality or depth. He’s a hard man that has lived a hard life but he really can be a sympathetic character, especially given what he went through during his childhood. Watching Perry’s descent into madness is intense and fraught with peril because readers do care about his plight. And, despite his condition, Perry decides to fight back against the creatures residing in his own body and I find that pretty commendable.
Dew and Margaret are nowhere near as entertaining to read about but lucky for us their chapters are short and sparse. The only emotion Dew ever seems to show is indignation and Margaret is only ever scared or horny. Dew does not act like you would expect a seasoned CIA agent to act, not that the CIA should even be in charge of this type of investigation. The CIA wasn’t built for that sort of business and it shows. Margaret doesn’t act like you would expect a knowledgeable, educated doctor of the CDC to act either.
The investigation, which I have to admit I was most excited for, is actually the smallest part of the story. The majority of the story is spent watching as Perry’s sanity is stripped away, layer by layer. I imagine this is where the “horror” angle is supposed to come from. There is a huge amount of self mutilation, this book is definitely not for the squeamish. The alien creatures are cool, Sigler appears to have a grasp of virology and biology. As unbelievable as Dew and Margaret are, I had no trouble suspending my disbelief on behalf of the aliens. I would consider INFECTED to be creepy rather than horrifying but I do realize that this sort of thing is subjective and it might give some people a good thrill.
Sigler has great ideas and his writing is tight. The short chapters make for quick, uninterrupted reading and the tension is dense throughout INFECTED.
The ending is rushed, a problem I’ve been having with most of my reading lately. After hundreds of pages of watching Perry struggle against his own body in a very personal conflict, the climax is far too rushed and impersonal. This short-cut finish is obviously setting up for the sequel (obvious because the sequel is out already) but I still hate to be short changed.
I like a lot of Sigler’s ideas and I find his writing to be tight. The short chapters make for quick, uninterrupted reading and the tension is dense throughout the story. INFECTED takes a few pages out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but does everything better so that is an improvement. The problem is that I just don’t find INFECTED scary. Gory and disturbing for sure but it lacks that element that would make it a proper horror/thriller.
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Reviewed by Mark M. Owen, Ph.D.
Scott Sigler’s Infected is highly contagious. It firmly grabs you in the beginning and tauntingly pulls you through to the end, even though the final chapter points toward a possible enticing sequel. The hardcover version of the book clocks in at just over 300 pages, making it a manageable tale to burn through in a couple of long days, or one that’s lazily absorbed over a vacation week.
The story takes place in Michigan, with several ordinary people going crazy in the beginning. Not just run-of-the-mill caterwauling loony, but off-the-deep-end, kill-your-family-and-friends wacko. A little extraterrestrial seed is behind the madness. It latches onto a person, drills into their body, taps into their DNA and grows, developing into something called the triangles. The lead character is a rough ex-football player who doesn’t like doctors. He tries to tough out the infection on his own, scratching the rash into open sores, and gouging the sores as they turn into sentient beings living inside his body.
The most entertaining aspect of the book is when the triangles begin talking to the host in his mind. Since they’re not of this planet, the little critters struggle with conceptual humanity, calling all threats Columbo, after the TV series detective. They yell when they’re hungry, and tremble when they’re afraid. You almost feel sorry for the buggers, except you can’t forget they are parasites, urging the protagonist through to the ultimate hatching.
The only weakness in the book is minor. A parallel plot involves doctors, medical examiners, and several three-letter government agencies. I found these chapters forgettable. Perhaps if one or more of the doctors became infected themselves, the parallel plot might have had some pull. But make no mistake, it is a minor detraction.
The main plot line is as strong as cold-rolled steel, beating you over the head with colorful, and often gory, depictions that propel the story forward.
I’d highly recommend this book to horror fans that like old-school Stephen King.
Armchair Interviews says: Little extraterrestrial seeds make for a good story.
Author’s Web site: http://www.ScottSigler.com
INFECTED by Scott Sigler ★★★
Spoiler alert! This review reveals significant plot details.
So, there’s this guy, right? Ex-football player with an injured knee, now paying the bills with a tech support desk job in small-town Michigan. Then he gets infected by triangle-shaped alien parasites that hijack his body, drive him crazy, and want him to meet up with other hosts so they can build a giant gateway and welcome Earth’s new alien overlords. Suddenly, Perry Dawsey isn’t having a good day anymore.
At first glance, Scott Sigler’s Infected is little more than a standard alien parasite infection/invasion story. The CIA’s conducting illegal operations on American soil. The gore is more than gratuitous and complete with penis mutilation. The characters are stereotypes present more for plot development and snappy dialogue than pathos.
At second glance, Infected is still your standard alien invasion SF/horror story. The nefarious, networked Triangle parasites always seem one step ahead of the protagonists, often with squishy, blood-drenched side-effects. Any sort of extraneous character dies off-screen or is marked for death and then killed in a slow, painful manner. And everyone, everyone with a little authority is a jerk.
At third glance . . . well, I hope you see where I’m going with this. I’m not going to praise Infected for being original or even for being amazing, because I can’t. However, it does deliver precisely what it promises in the teaser. It’s exactly what I was expecting going into the book. While I love it when a book exceeds my expectations, I can’t fault a book for just meeting them. Infected is solid, predictable, and entertaining.
The pacing is hit-and-miss. Much of the book consists of watching Perry Dawsey discover and battle against the infection of his body. Meanwhile, the CIA and its CID-drafted allies struggle to find the source of the infection and capture a live host for study. While I enjoyed the former plot, the latter is slow and often uninteresting, despite additional special effects like gas explosions and gunfire. There’s a long middle stretch during the manhunt for Perry that lasts far longer than it should, delaying the conclusion and climactic missile-bombing of the alien gateway for an interminable period of time while we watch Perry continually evade capture.
Sigler devotes a great amount of space to describing how the Triangles interact with their hosts’ bodies. He takes us from the germination of the seed organisms all the way to the achievement of sentience, at which point the Triangles in a body can communicate with each other and with Triangles in the bodies of other hosts. There’s a nice mix of neurological jargon with simple, graphic descriptions of what was going on, both inside and outside Perry’s body. The result is a visceral experience as we follow Perry in discovering more about the Triangles and their purpose on Earth.
Perry’s struggle to retain his volition and identity in the face of the “mindscreams” of the Triangles is harrowing. I couldn’t enjoy Perry much as a person. Despite the fact that Sigler holds him up as a reformed man with a temper who had an abusive father, Perry’s still a jerk. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop me from being alternatively disgusted and dismayed by the transformation Perry undergoes and the physical and psychological toll it exacts. In Perry, we see the full course of the infection from beginning up until when the Triangles will “hatch.” Unlike many infected, who give into the Triangle-induced paranoia quickly and begin killing whomever they see, Perry fights against his Triangles. He begins cutting them out of his body—not easy, and definitely not pretty. Even when he loses ground against the Triangles, gives into their demands for food and death, he takes revenge even if it means hurting himself. I may not agree with everything Perry does, but his ordeal provides the only real character development in the book.
The other characters, and their relationships, are shallow in comparison. Murray and Dew, a CIA deputy director and his field agent, respectively, are fellow Vietnam veterans, the last surviving members of their group. They have slightly different methodologies, as evidenced by their choice of career paths. Yet they are their roles: hardboiled, hardline veterans fighting the good fight for America. Murray will do anything to protect the country even as the situation hits FUBAR levels and above; Dew is out for blood after one of the Triangle hosts mortally wounds his partner.
Then we’ve got the two scientists, Margaret Montoya and her partner Amos. The latter fits the role of comic-relief sidekick to a tee, right down to being the one who calls for a moratorium on levity the moment the protagonists realize what they’re really up against (it’s always the funny one who realizes it’s not a joke). The trouble with these two, aside from Amos’ constant wisecracks, is that they are superfluous to the story. Nothing they tell us really makes a difference, since most of it is repeated in what Perry learns about the Triangles from their own wacky dialogue with him. And since Montoya and Amos only react in this book, arriving on the scene after the action is over to perform an examination and provide an explanation, they don’t contribute toward the resolution in any way.
Perhaps the only character who doesn’t conform to a stereotype is Agent Otto, Margaret’s CIA liaison. Otto provides some tongue-in-check observations that contrast Amos’ more sarcastic witticisms, and he’s also the Watson for Margaret and Amos’ jargon-laden exposition. But there are times when he completely belies his stoic CIA exterior and begins acting like a kid, spinning around in a big plush chair and advising Margaret to take charge and stand up to Murray (his boss). While I have to admit I was pleased by Otto’s speech, his behaviour did feel incongruous. In other words, he does defy stereotypes, but he does it in such an obnoxious, loud manner that I’m still not satisfied.
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Eventually, what Perry thinks is a rash turns more serious as he picks at one. He manages to pull one of the parasites out of him with tweezers, but the tail of the parasite has burrowed into the muscles of his thigh. When he finally rips it out he sees that the creature is alive and the tail is wriggling like crazy. He feels sick and faints, slamming his head on the toilet and giving himself a concussion.
Meanwhile, a CDC doctor named Margaret Montoya and her assistant Amos are studying other victims of the alien parasite. They are working with CIA Deputy Director Murray and his top soldier Dew to keep these cases secret while simultaneously studying the bodies for weaknesses. It turns out that these parasites drive the host crazy using neurotransmitters, naturally created by the brain, in much higher than average doses. This turns the victims into serial killers in almost every instance.
Perry wakes up on his bathroom floor two days after removing the first parasite. The parasites have grown into blue triangles in the time that he was asleep and have gained more control over their host. They demand that he feed them and they scream inside his brain until he complies. Perry doesn’t know this, but if the parasites are removed from his body, a chain reaction will occur that will cause his body to quickly rot into black slime. Perry continues to try and remove the parasites, but they are adapting to his efforts. He pulls one out of his leg and nearly bleeds to death as the now barbed tails rip through his Achilles tendon.
Now Perry only has the use of his right leg and is hopping around his apartment trying to figure out how to get help. The CIA has set up a website where victims can ask for help and he sends them a message. The paranoia of the parasites starts to take over his brain and he thinks that they will just send soldiers to kill him. He begins to pack, the parasites telling him in his mind that he must go to a secluded wooded area to the north where other parasites are building a doorway to their home planet.
As he is about to leave, Bill shows up to check on his friend. In his delusional state, Perry concludes that Bill is working with the government to spy on him. He attacks the smaller man and stabs him in the leg before breaking his nose. He drags him inside and crucifies him before leaving. The police show up and he hides in another apartment with another infected person. He watches as the parasites burst out of her body and swears that he won’t let that happen to him.
Meanwhile Dew and the doctors are en route to rescue Perry. Dew plans on killing Perry even though they need him alive.
Perry finally gets the courage to rip the other three parasites out of his body before setting the house on fire. The hatched parasites attack him but he kills one and the rest flee. As the apartment building burns he runs outside and is knocked out by the CIA agents. They find a map on his person that shows where the triangles wanted him to go. Dew orders a platoon of soldiers be sent to that location.
While Perry recovers, Dew and the soldiers find something at the location. It is a portal that leads to the alien home planet. The area is swarming with fifty or more hatched parasites, some grown as tall as a middle school student. The parasites sense the presence of the soldiers and activate the portal. They then rush the soldiers. While the rest of the men fight the parasites, Dew can’t stop looking at the portal. He now sees their home planet and an army of a million invaders ready to come through. The first alien takes his step onto Earth when an airstrike destroys the portal. The earth is saved, but Dew knows that this won’t be their last attempt to come through. He thinks that humanity will be fighting this threat for a long time.
Best part of story, including ending: This story is visceral. There are some incredibly gory moments described in detail that will make your stomach turn. I was impressed by the level of detail and creativity of the gore scenes, but it might turn off a lot of readers.
Best scene in story: My favorite scene of the book is when the parasites hatch out of the woman in front of Perry. The whole book, the reader is wondering, along with the rest of the characters, what happens when these parasites grow to their adult form. The disgust felt by Perry is matched by the reader disgust, but it is also a fascinating moment of payoff for the reader.
Opinion about the main character: Perry Dawsey is not a nice character. At first in the story you feel sorry for him. He had a really abusive father and this caused him to have really bad anger issues. The Perry in the beginning is trying to overcome this. By the end, however, he has fully become his father. He screams most of the time and abuses another infected victim to get what he wants. He stops being likeable when he becomes what he has always feared. It works in the story, but it makes it hard to keep rooting for him.
The review of this Book prepared by Agustin Guerrero a Level 2 American Robin scholar
Perry Dawsey is infected by an alien parasite and must remove them before they hatch and kill him. Perry Dawsey is a former college linebacker who grew up in an abusive home. All of his life his father taught him to be tough and this upbringing has turned Perry into an angry time bomb that goes off violently every so often. His best friend Bill has been trying to keep him calm for the last eight years. The two work together in customer service and the only reason Perry was hired is because Bill vouched for him. One day, Perry wakes up incredibly itchy. He doesn’t know at the time, but seven alien parasites have landed on his body and are currently burrowing their way into his skin.
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