1      I was interested in the read as well as disturbed, I liked that the stereotypical gender roles had primarily been swapped. A world of alien parasites co-existing with humans is unsettling, especially with the understanding of how the parasitic worms pro-create.

2      Some connections I made in the story were the gender roles, and how typically a woman is the one who bares the children in the womb, the men take on that roll with the aliens by providing themselves as a host for the parasitic worms. Also the fact that the women seemed to be way more protective of the men, which is typically reversed, where the woman would be delicate and the man would have to do all the protecting. I would also like to point out the fact that artificial choice take place in the story, for example letting our main character believe he has a choice on is really controlled heavily by T'Gatoi' meaning she didn’t really leave him with much option without directly ruining someone else life.

3   I think this would make for an interesting novel, in which I would further expand the relationship that T’Gatoi has with this particular family, and possibly have flashbacks of what it might have been like before the existence or presence of the alien worms. This would be so the reader can further compare and contrast human life before and after this parasitic alien took over. I think it would be interesting to see if their presence has anything positive to offer to the humans. I would also like to maybe see more flashback of the father, and how he met the mother and what exactly happened, that has changed the way the mother is.