Slither

This book features a strong premise of three vastly different groups of people (one college students, one criminals, one scientists) finding themselves on an island with a parasitic worm that grows rapidly to disturbing proportions and use their human hosts in a variety of disgusting ways. The dialogue and character development, however, is difficult to struggle through and really detracts from the horror plot. The ending is definitely surprising, but I'm not sure if it was in a good way or a cop-out way. In any case, the plot was unique, and if you're not too much of a stickler for good dialogue and character development, you'll probably enjoy it. Be warned though that the blurb sells it as a sexually-tense horror, when it's definitely much more of a gross-out piece.

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Superficial stereotypes, monstrous worms, hidden military agendas. We've seen it a million times (well, maybe not in worm form, although Tremors is close enough). Slither breaks no new territory here, although it does get the Edward Lee treatment. That means almost all the horror is of a perverse nature, it's his forte and it works. Slither is mean and dirty, with almost no likeable characters, yet the combination of adult-themed horror and a genuine desire to see how people will die keeps you flipping the pages. Don't pick up Slither expecting to get cerebrally challenged, but expect an easy read which it entertaining enough, even though wildly improbable. ( )

Very disturbing. I liked it. I've only read a couple of Lee's books, but they have all seemed very formulated and were predictable. Still a descent read. ( )