Book Review: Kalahari

I read the third book of this incredible Science Fiction series!

Kalahari

by Jessica Khoury

Summary From Goodreads:

Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret…

But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own?

When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate.

But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area—and eliminate life as they know it.

In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.

This book takes place in Africa, which is really cool because I have personally been very close to where the characters are--however, there will be some points that will be difficult to relate to, because most teens haven't experienced Africa in all her dry, hot, wild glory.  That shouldn't be a problem, though, because Khoury does an excellent job describing and explaining the things the teens see and do.

I will say that this is probably my least favorite book in the Corpus series, and I'm not sure why.  I think part of it is that it's been so long since I've read the other two, but Khoury does do an excellent job creating a new problem/disease/conspiracy dealing with Science that could very well happen during our lifetime.  All her plots are scary-real, and I think regardless of my own opinion about this third novel, you will enjoy all three of this series!  They are all stand-alone novels--they are only joined together because each one deals with the Science Research group, Corpus.