My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book has everything that I love  and nothing that I hate in a novel. When I read the synopsis, I knew that it was something up my alley and filled a void that I had in books. I was incredibly happy and surprised to find that it was everything I could have asked for. I love science fiction. I loved the movie Alien and this felt similar. It is by no means the same story or even all that similar apart from space and suspense and death, but the feel was there and that's what I've been missing. It had the vibes.

Contagion is told from a third-person limited POV jumping from character to character. This is an effective way of telling this story because it keeps things moving, we see what's happening all over the ship/planet/etc, and it creates so much suspense! With the changing POVs, we get mini-cliff hangers throughout that, I think, are essential for sci-fi/horror. It's just perfect. The character development in this book is well paced and feels like it follows a realistic and logical path without giving us too much at once or too soon. I felt like all the characters whose perspectives we receive are fully developed throughout the story.

Be prepared to immediately read the sequel because you won't want to wait! And, good news, it's a duology so it should all wrap up in the sequel, Immunity.

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