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s in the absence of sickness and disease we owe our good health to a humble parasite a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering symbogen corporation when implanted the intestinal bodyguard worm protects us from illness boosts our immune system even secretes designer drugs it s been successful beyond the scientists wildest dreams now years on almost every human being has a symbogen tapeworm living within them but these parasites are getting restless they want their own lives and will do anything to get them i recently noticed that mira grant s parasite had been sitting on my netgalley dashboard for a while and i knew it had been very well received by the readers therefore i decided it was time to wear my lab coat safety goggles and rubber gloves to handle this specimen parasite is narrated from the point of view of the main female protagonist sal sally mitchell when sally was 20 years old she had a seizure while driving she lost control of her car and drove straight into the path of an incoming bus the two vehicles collided without slowing down and the impact sent sally slamming into a nearby wall after the accident she was pronounced clinically brain dead her parents and sister hoped that she might wake up one day but the damage from the accident had been too great she was gone she was not coming back or so everybody thought thanks to her intestinal bodyguard sally sal after the accident woke up with total amnesia even unable to speak she was born again i am alive because of a genetically engineered tapeworm not a miracle god was not involved in my survival they can call it an implant or an intestinal bodyguard with or without that damn trademark but the fact remains that we re talking about a tapeworm a big ugly blind parasitic invertebrate that lives in my small intestine where it naturally secrets a variety of useful chemicals including as it turns out some that both stimulate brain activity and clean toxic byproducts out of blood you see we think that there are going to be nanorobots controlling many aspects of our bodies in the near future but in parasite symbogen do better than that they genetically engineer custom tapeworms symbogen intestinal bodyguards for each willing patient without symbogen i would have died i needed to remember that no matter how much i hated the therapists and the tests and everything else i owed my life to symbogen parasite is the first book of mira grant s that i ve read contrary to most bloggers around me i hadn t read her newsflesh books so i won t be able to compare parasite with her earlier works but i can say that i was pleasantly surprised with her prose and her energetic dialogs opening of the chapters with descriptions of video footages recorded by various protagonists certainly added to the story and to the general atmosphere of the book unfortunately these weren t enough for me to love parasite it s such a pity that the plot couldn t be on par with the author s prose the story lacked considerable pace especially at the first half of the book twice i thought we were shifting up gears a third through and halfway through to be disappointed shortly after i kept waiting for the action during a story that mostly came across flat furthermore the plot was unable to convince me i haven t done any research on it but most of the time at least about anything that s not instinctive i would have expected sal to behave like a 6 year old she was far from that her speech her thoughts and especially her analytical capabilities fully reflected her adult age i also felt like the profession of sal s father and sister and the introduction of a dog were too convenient too contrived dad and sister s working for the san francisco branch of usamriid the united states of america medical research institute for infectious diseases helped certainly the author in adding some twists to the plot introduction of the dog wasn t necessary in my opinion it was a cheesy move i would not have been too surprised about it if it were done 30 years ago much more skilfully by king or koontz perhaps the dog has a role to play in future instalments of the series p arasite the first book of mira grant s that i ve read was unable to satisfy me the author s prose makes me certain that i will try another book of hers in the future truly hoping that she can create better plots overall 6 10 roll the dice but count the cards break the glass but keep the shards posted by yagiz at 1 00 pm no comments labels horror mira grant parasite parasitology review saturday august 9 2014 review half a king by joe abercrombie title half a king author joe abercrombie hardcover 352 pages us publisher del rey 15 jul 2014 uk publisher harper voyager 3 jul 2014 isbn 10 0804178321 isbn 13 978 0804178327 series shattered sea electronic copy sent by the publisher i swore an oath to avenge the death of my father i may be half a man but i swore a whole oath prince yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted but first he must survive cruelty chains and the bitter waters of the shattered sea and he must do it all with only one good hand the deceived will become the deceiver born a weakling in the eyes of his father yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule he cannot grip a shield or swing an axe so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge the betrayed will become the betrayer gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could will the usurped become the usurper but even with loyal friends at his side yarvi finds his path may end as it began in twists and traps and tragedy h alf a king s setting is reminiscent of the viking era the main protagonist yarvi is a prince he is the second son of his father trailing a strong brother groomed to rule one day yarvi has a deformed hand so he is considered unfit to rule in a land where physical power is what a great leader is expected to have young yarvi learns the death of his father and his brother when he is about to become a minister readying himself for a life of celibacy because of his handicap he has never imagined he would rule but when his uncle comes unannounced and kneels before him saying my king he understands that his father and his brother are dead and this changes his life forever he had expected to be a minister to give up wife and children with hardly a thought kissing the aged cheek of grandmother wexen when he passed the test was the closest he had hoped to come to romance in half a king abercrombie has created a world with a hint of mythology that i hope we would discover in more details in the series future instalments in this world elves are the legendary powerful beings who lived a long time ago and who vanished leaving buildings and all sorts of artifacts behind it is told that they haven t been seen since the breaking of god and for thousands upon thousands of years this world has also many gods 409 small and 6 tall i really liked how the author created dualities by calling the six tall gods mother sea father earth mother sun father moon mother war father peace w hen the new book of one of my favourite authors lands on my desk i drop whatever i m reading in order to savour this precious newcomer however it is not easy to review such a book not because i feel like i have to write a good review but because of expectations and standards to me the book of a top author comes with a heavy responsibility to live up to the standards set by the author in her previous books and this is where it gets tricky because having high expectations is the enemy of great entertainment therefore opinions expressed about such a book should be considered in this context where disappointments could seem much larger don t worry i m not going to say that half a king is a bad book but you knew there was going to be a but didn t you since the moment i turned the last page of the book i ve been telling myself there s something missing in half a king something that made me love abercrombie s books it s hard to put a finger on it i guess what i missed the most in half a king was the stomach knotting gut wrenching kick in the balls moments that leave you breathless and that make you shake your fist to the heavens those are the side effects of an immersive reading that usually earn abercrombie 10 10 from me and i really missed them then maybe it s also due to the tone of the story telling i know some readers complain about cursing and sex in books but those are part of the reality aren t they think about the viking era or about a medieval setting do you think that baddies mercenaries soldiers sailors slaves whores talked like they were part of the royal family no of course not same goes for sex they didn t live their sexual lives like 13 year olds stealing kisses from each other in my opinion those details add reality to a story and help in creating the immersive experience that i always look for in the books that i read so maybe they were part of the things that i missed in half a king last but not least the book also felt pretty short i would have expected abercrombie to develop certain parts of the story in more detail i m not sure whether this was due to editing or just due to the style of the story telling but that s what i felt now this could also indicate a good story as in pages turned themselves or read it in one sitting you could be the judge when you read it i enjoyed half a king but it didn t satisfy me as fully as abercrombie s pervious books it was like being very thirsty on a summer day grabbing the last bottle of your favourite beer and finding it not as cold as you imagined it nonetheless i would recommend it it is a good story told masterfully by one of the best fantasy writers you can t go wrong with it get your copy enjoy it and look forward to reading the second book of the series overall 8 10 m emorable quotes the fool strikes the wise man smiles and watches and learns then strikes queen laithlin a king must win the rest is dust odem enemies are the price of success queen laithlin the wise wait for their moment but never let it pass when a wise minister has nothing but enemies she beats one with a worse mother gundring when you re in hell only a devil can point the way out yarvi the great warrior is the one who still breathes when the crows feast the great king is the one who watches the carcasses of his enemies burn nothing you cannot expect all the heroes to survive a good song yarvi you may need two hands to fight someone but only one to stab them in the back yarvi a wise king always has someone to blame mother gundring posted by yagiz at 11 44 am no comments labels fantasy half a king joe abercrombie review ya friday january 10 2014 mobile app hairy tales i came across hairy tales last night it is currently free on apple s app store it is a great puzzle action game and by the time you pass the tutorial you re addicted to it i m sure you re going to like the hairys hairy tales by josh presseisen combining tile dragging mechanics with fast furious action hairy tales is a puzzle action game about the zany adventures of a group of not too bright folk spirits as you help them puzzle out evil conundrums in their mission to save their tile based world from sickening corruption it stars the hairys an excitable group of fairy folk who are so eager to clear their world of corruption that they simply don t watch where they re going it s up to you to lead them to safety by placing tiles and power ups in their way it has 72 levels split across three distinctive worlds where players must simultaneously save the hairys from falling off the edge of the world by re arranging the tiles on each level while acquiring power ups magic mushrooms and destroying evil enemy kikimoras and their three powerful end bosses posted by yagiz at 6 00 pm 1 comment labels app game hairy tales mobile friday august 9 2013 winds of change i just hit the pause button i ll be blogging only on speculative book review for a while thank you posted by yagiz at 2 01 pm no comments wednesday july 10 2013 review crash by guy haley d ariusz is an engineer whose career ended years ago now a man he s never met sits in a bar that doesn t exist and offers him a fresh start at a price cassandra sand to her friends is a space pilot who itches to get her hands on the controls and actually fly a ship rather than watch computers do it for her the pointers the elite 0 01 who control virtually all wealth have seen the limitations of a plundered earth and set their eyes on the stars and now dariusz and sand and a half million ambitious men and women just like them are sent out to extend the pointers and the market s influence across the galaxy but the colony fleet is sabotaged and the ess adam mickiewicz crashes on an alien planet where one hemisphere is seared by perpetual daylight and the other shrouded in eternal night the castaways have the chance to create society from scratch if they re not destroyed by the hostile planet or their own leaders before they can even begin w hy do you read fiction when i turned the barrel of this question to myself my immediate answer was to be entertained in fiction entertainment is what i m looking for and the overall experience is what i value the most to qoute jojen reeds from martin s a song of ice and fire a reader lives a thousand lives before he dies the man who never reads lives only one so when i turned the first page of crash i was looking to put another notch on the hilt of that sword crash opens with a prologue that immediately hooks the reader at first dariusz szczeciński was dead then he was not machines hurried him to life more quickly than they should preservative fluids were sucked from his circulatory system with haste warmed blood pumped in their place the main protagonish dariusz szczeciński wakes up after what appears to be a crash the dozen page prologue is perfect to whet the reader s appetite then the author takes us to 22nd century earth where the reader remains throughout the first quarter of the book here haley paints a very probable picture of our hurting planet that is damaged beyond repair in that future a handful of people forming the elite of the society the pointers live a dream life while 99 of the human population can barely survive in this first part the reader gets to know the backstory of the main protagonist dariusz as well as some other important characters maybe it comes with the age but as i grow older i lose my faith in humanity we are not doing enough to protect our planet we are wasting precious resources in the name of dogma we are not educating our people in family planning and one of the projections of our planet s current state could very well match what haley describes in this first part of crash that probable realism glued the book to my hands and in the second part of the book the reader find herself back to ...