3.5
Invasive
ByPublisher Description
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It's her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.
Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. "I've got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies," he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn't say.
What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who—and why—will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted—a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.
Download the free Fable app
Stay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.
Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building tool
Rate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tags
Curate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesStay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building toolRate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tagsCurate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesInvasive Reviews
3.5
Robin McNutt
Created 10 days agoShare
Report
BelievableLikeableMultilayeredOriginalAction-packedClever plottingGripping/excitingSatisfying conclusionSteady pacingSuspensefulTwistyWell-structuredBeautifulIdyllicLushPicturesqueRealisticSetting fits the storyUnique locationDescriptiveEasy to readFunnyOriginalWittyBigotryChild lossDeathExplicit sexual contentGriefMisogynyMurderRacismViolence
Jerrica✨
Created 25 days agoShare
Report
“🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜The ants go killing one by one, hurrah, hurrah
🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
Pretty good! Just not as good as his others have been for me.”
Ralu
Created 26 days agoShare
Report
“This book was absolutely hilarious. This is my second book by Chuck Wendig and I read this after finishing The Staircase In The Woods which is one of the best pieces of literature I've ever read. And let me tell you. I am so glad I did that because "Invasive" is not that. "Invasive" is just hilariously bad. There are so many moments and subplots that made me laugh out loud in this book. I'll describe a few in this review to give you an idea of what to expect.
Consider the FMC who bangs the hot Zuckerberg-ish tech guy as soon as she arrives on the island. She is just a trope. There is truly nothing special or unique about her. She's just a Strong Woman™. Also, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a tech billionaire for allegedly developing and using a GMO'd ant species to murder his rival billionaire tech guy and they can only afford to send ONE consultant to this island? Huh? And her boss, the actual FBI agent has no idea how technology works. He gave me the impression that he'd think you're a hacker if you show him how to use a password manager. Then the Icelandic tech guy randomly showing up in scenes with the FMC leaning against a doorframe and saying some generic Icelandic proverb about survival is just so, so terrible.
Not to mention the whole idea around ants. There are so many scenes where the narrator describes "hearing the march of the ants through the air vents". I'm sorry but that is just hilarious to me. The thought of hearing ants marching reminds me of a Looney Tunes episode.
When the main antagonist dies in the last 30 or so pages of the book, his last words are, I kid you not, "and thus endeth... the lecture..."”
Alison
Created about 2 months agoShare
Report
“Love this author! Love the writing style, plot.
This book made me so itchy. 💀💀💀 dear lord.”
Start a Book Club
Start a public or private book club with this book on the Fable app today!FAQ
Do I have to buy the ebook to participate in a book club?
Why can’t I buy the ebook on the app?
How is Fable’s reader different from Kindle?
Do you sell physical books too?
Are book clubs free to join on Fable?
How do I start a book club with this book on Fable?
