Wrath

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By Sharon Moalem & Daniel Kraus

Publisher Description

New York Times bestselling coauthors Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus's terrifying sci-fi horror thriller takes place in a future that is much nearer than you think. It is a world where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit and under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of our existence.

Wrath is the story of Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence helps him to engineer his escape into the world outside the lab: a world vastly ill-equipped to deal with the menace he represents. Modified through advances that have boosted his awareness of humankind’s cruelty in the name of science, Sammy has the potential to sire a rodent army capable of viciously overwhelming the human race. The key to Sammy’s capture and humanity’s salvation may be ten-year-old Dallas Underhill, whom Sammy adopts. But while Dallas and Sammy bond, time is running out for humankind: once Sammy sires his progeny, the exponential proliferation of his kind could spell the end of the world.

For fans of dystopian works such as Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, and readers of Neal Stephenson, Michael Crichton, and Blake Crouch. This heart-pounding, science-based thriller takes place in a possibly all-too-soon reality where the hazards and consequences of genetic manipulation will no longer be the stuff of mere fiction.

Hardcover with dust jacket; 320 pages; 9 in H by 6 in W.

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45 Reviews

4.0

Abby

Created 3 days ago

Rigby

Created about 1 month ago

“I agree with most sentiments in Orions review of the book. At first, I had really high hopes. I initially thought the book would take the POV of the genetically modified rat itself, and I was very excited to see that kind of perspective. There is another book I read some time ago that adopts a similar perspective (unfortunately I don't remember the name and I can't seem to find it) that I really enjoyed, and I expected Wrath to be similar. Once the book opened with human characters I had to readjust my expectations a bit, but I still enjoyed what I read and thought the heavy science aspect of it was very cool. I never really connected with any of the characters, they were either totally shitty or mostly uninteresting (not that I never love a shitty character, mind you). But I thought a lot of the focus on the human characters and their petty little lives and struggles was boring, I straight up just did Not care. Towards the mid-section of the book I really started losing steam. One thing I can give it credit for is that I was so initially interested in the premise that I wanted to continue just to see where the story went. And I'm glad I did! After the character Dallas is introduced the story slowly starts building steam and intrest again, I was SO excited for the rat uprising. This book could have been shortened into a small novella and benefited from that. There was too much piddlefarting around with Sienna and Noah and the hardships they faced with EditedPets that had nothing to do with the plots/themes as a whole. The inclusion of shock horror was bland and tasteless and felt extremely out of place. I understand it was probably meant to be a pre-cursor to the violence of the Rat War but it just really didn't work. The ultra-violence would have been more shocking and effective if left for just the end. I really sympathized with Sammy and his cause. Seeing him mentally deteriorate and think of Dallas in his last final moments really tugged at my heart strings, their bond was one of the best parts of the final half of the book. As a marginalized person myself I understood the rats pain, and I wanted them to succeed. I really liked the cliffhanger though, the real possibility that Sammy spawned successfully and his efforts were not in vain (despite him backtracking in the second to last chapter). Overall, a thoroughly "just okay" book. Ive read worse, but I have most certainly read better.”

Orion

Created about 1 month ago

“Ok, so, this book wasn’t what I expected (and wasn’t what I hoped for either), but once I accepted that, I did enjoy it. I thought we would have a lot more of the rats POV and it’s plotting to kill the humans. Plus, I had hoped the rats would be the winner in this situation (and I know arguably they were with the high change of Sammy’s offspring but NYC was still standing in the end so *shrug*). Once we got a ways into the story with only human POVs, I realized that was not gonna be the case and had to switch expectations. It kinda lost me at that point and I honestly think the book would have been a lot better if they just cut out a whole bunch from the beginning/middle. I did like getting to know the people but I don’t think we needed to try over and over again to get the science correct, it just bogged down the story. Especially when you already know they will be successful since the plot isn’t “can we make a human/rat?” But “uh-oh this human/rat we made is about to take over the world”. However, once we started to get into Sammy’s mind I feel like it picked up again, and getting to watch his mental cognition improve and then decline again was a really cool touch. I just wish we could have spent more time with him learning and plotting. I have mixed feelings about the ending. In some ways I actually really loved it. I appreciate a story that kills off main characters in the end, especially when it feels like some kind of karmic retribution, something I think they did really well with choosing who dies and who lives. But on the other side of things, I did really want to be able to lean into the anger and frustration of the rats and root for the destruction. I wanted to feel like it was time for human extinction. But with so much of the focus being on the human characters, I definitely lost some of that, and it just made it feel difficult for me to connect with either side. All in all, certainly not a perfect book in my mind, but it had plenty of exciting moments”

Heidi Ronfeldt

Created about 1 month ago

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About Sharon Moalem

Shäron Moalem MD, PhD, is an award-winning scientist, physician, and New York Times bestselling author of The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women, Survival of the Sickest, How Sex Works, and Inheritance. Moalem has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, cofounded two biotechnology companies, and his clinical genetics research has led to the discovery of two new rare genetic conditions. He has also been awarded more than 35 patents worldwide for his inventions in human health and biotechnology.

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. His collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, The Living Dead, was acclaimed by the New York Times and the Washington Post and he is the coauthor of Pay the Piper with Romeo, also due out in September 2024. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored Trollhunters (the basis for the Emmy-winning Netflix series) and The Shape of Water, based on the same idea Kraus and del Toro created for the Oscar-winning film. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’sTop 10 Books of the Year. His 2023 novel Whalefall was a USA Today bestseller.