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Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy #1)Feed by Mira Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed Feed far more than I thought I would. I mean, okay, there are zombies. That’s definitely a plus, though I suspect that the current wave of zombie books/movies/shows might already have peaked. At the end of the day, there’s only so much you can do with zombies, right?

That said, Grant manages to put two novel spins on the genre. First, she depicts a society not in the days immediately following the zombie outbreak, but rather one that has learned to accept the zombie menace as a way of life. We see civilization carrying on. Business carries on, democracy marches forward, testing for the zombie virus is routine, and humans are still the scariest monsters there are.

Grant’s second original spin is to place bloggers front-and-center in the post-zombie society. It’s an odd conceit, but it is a more-or-less plausible outgrowth of our reality-TV obsessed world.

In all, I thought that this was great fun, and the book actually had what was (to me) a perfect ending. Honestly, my main disappointment is that there is a sequel. That may sound odd. But I fear that trying to carry on with a sequel is going to end up a little bit like season 6 of Buffy: It sounds like a good idea at the time, but in retrospect, it really just makes everything that came before it a little bit worse.

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