I feel very meh after reading this book. I know there is a video game based off it, and although I’ve watched a playthrough of it I don’t fully remember the story of it. 

However this book did not have the same vibes as the game, and I feel like I learnt more about kidney transplants than feeling the tension a horror book like this could’ve had.

The action thankfully kicked in around page 230. Unfortunately the third act does include

sexual assault, and eve implants a zygote into a 14 year old girls body

. Those two scenes made me so uncomfortable and not in an ooh horror makes me squirm way, but more oh I feel actually unwell.

I know eve’s goal was to propagate, but I just really hate when horror books use sexual assault as a plot point. There are other ways to horrifying readers and traumatise characters with something that isn’t so invasive.

Glad to be done with this book, and glad to move onto other good ones 

I have no idea what to rate this book yet, I need to think on it a while. What a ride.
UPDATE: I can't give this any higher than 3⭐️ because the beginning was hard to get through.

The first 65% of the book is almost painfully slow. The pacing definitely wasn't helped by the large amount of science lingo that took me much longer to digest than a standard read. I don't think I've ever read a fictional work with a bibliography at the back before. I feel either quite intelligent or markedly stupid after reading all the jargon, and I'm still torn on which side of that I'm landing. 

65% onwards, oh boy. A LOT happens and at breakneck speeds. 
Was it horror? Absolutely. Horrifying is actually how I'd describe a lot of the reading experience. I'm a ✨️horror girlie✨️ but I think the slow and somewhat dull beginning to this book really contrasted with the end to leave me with a real "what the actual fuck" feeling. Mouth was agape, pearls were clutched. 

I don't know if this was effective, long game shock horror or just a weirdly paced book. It took me three weeks to reach 53% but then I read the remainder in one night. Do with that information what you will.