You Should Read This Book! Feedback by Mira Grant
Feedback by Mira Grant is being released on October 4, 2016.
As a fan of Mira Grant, I was very grateful to get an Advanced Readers Copy of this book. I absolutely loved it and you should read it, too.
What's it about?
Zombies. It's about zombies. Before you stop reading this review, please understand that Feedback is a zombie novel of great quality.
Mira Grant is the pseudonym of Seanan McGuire who writes phenomenal books under both names.
In Feedback, Mira Grant revisits events from her award-winning Newsflesh series. Don't be put off if you haven't read any of the other books. You can start here. The Newsflesh series is set in the United States of the near future. A zombie apocalypse, called The Rising, began when a virus created to cure cancer and a virus created to cure the common cold were created. Activists fearing that the cures would be withheld from regular people released the viruses into the atmosphere. The virus combined and cured everything but there was a side effect–the dead rose from their graves as zombies. All people and other large mammals now carry the virus and will turn into zombies after death.
Feed, the first book in the series takes place two decades later. Bloggers Sean and Georgia Mason go on the campaign trail with a Republican presidential hopeful. They soon discover to their surprise that zombies may be less deadly than politics.
Feedback tells a parallel story of a different blogging team embedded with one of the Democratic candidates. The book is narrated by Aislinn, an Irish immigrant who likes to film herself poking zombies with a stick–she's an "Irwin", a daredevil journalist. Also on the team are her husband Ben, her lover Audrey and Mat, a wonderful character who is equally at home with mechanics and makeup.
My Thoughts:
It is tempting to dismiss a novel about zombies but you'd be missing a terrific book. Yes, it is zombie fiction but it is extremely well-written zombie fiction. There are chills and thrills and violence; there is sarcasm and humour; there is poignancy and heartbreak, joy and sorrow. There are also wonderful characters, villains and heroes who always feel human.
Obviously this book is not for everyone. People who don't like zombies, people who don't like violence and people who aren't comfortable with nonbinary gender characters will probably want to steer clear, but they'll be missing a fantastic read.
It will be available from the library in these formats:
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