Ancestor: A Novel

Like many other reviewers, this is not my first Scott Sigler adventure. I discovered Infected via the podcast feed when I was a teenager and absolutely LOVED it.

With Ancestor, I read the eBook over a few lunch breaks and while fighting sleep at night. It had an unnecessarily slow buildup at the very beginning, which is the only reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5. I was particularly disappointed by the false start in the very beginning. I got invested in the containment storyline only to see the whole place firebombed... Once the story got going, it was hard to put it down! There was a good balance between action and revelation that I was never overwhelmed with the converging story lines, but also never bored.

I do wish there had been more explanation about the creatures' abilities and why Jian created them the way she did. Knowing they were engineered to be unstoppable killing machines to finally fulfill her wishes was a good start, but I never did figure out the intended purpose of that dorsal flap? Was it the only way the Ancestors could communicate?