audiobook. While it opened my eyes to the complexity of malaria research, and to some of the amazing undertakings performed in the name of malaria eradication, the author was too plainly biased toward certain researchers to feel that this was a true story of how malaria research has been done. At times, the narrative in this book clearly contradicts narratives told in other books that tangentially mention the same topic and researchers.
It seems that the author was fighting so hard to have (human) heroes and (human) villains that she lost sight of the impartial story. ( )

Excellent read. Somewhat technical in parts, but anyone with some basic knowledge of biology should have no trouble. My only annoyance was that the author sometimes digressed more than needed. Sometimes the digressions were interesting, but sometimes they were distracting. ( )