Yes, there is a good deal of zombie action (which McGuire/Grant writes exceptionally well), but the political machine and how it’s covered by our intrepid bloggers is what will really hook you. That’s what you get with entire Newsflesh series. Now imagine if the person writing said book baby was so good at internal dialogue that the main characters felt brilliantly authentic. Imagine if The West Wing and The Walking Dead television shows had a book baby. Humanity’s close call with extinction has greatly changed the game for both politics and journalism, resulting a march toward the White House that is equal parts fascinating and dangerous. The first book, Feed, introduces us to a small team of reporters as they follow a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.
Humanity manages to recover, but with some heavy duty safeguards in place to protect themselves-along with the ever present threat of localized outbreaks looming over the populace. You’d think that’d be a halfway decent tradeoff, but when both people and animals over a certain weight can transform into mindless, flesh eating monsters…I mean, can you imagine a barn full of infected horses getting loose (which totally happens at one point, by the way)? Wait! Just hear me out! This isn’t your average story within the currently oversaturated undead fiction genre.įor starters, it primarily takes place twenty years AFTER humanity was nearly wiped out by zombies-which were created via a successful cure for cancer and the common cold. The Newsflesh Trilogy (and its various tie-ins), written by Mira Grant (the sci-fi/horror pen of author Seanan McGuire) is a zombie book series.
But you have to promise not to leave after you hear it, okay? As we close in on October 31, AiPT! will be reviewing and recommending various pieces of underappreciated scary media-books, comics, movies, and television-to help keep you terrified and entertained all the way to Halloween.īefore we start this review, I’m going to tell you the ‘bad news’ first so we can get it out of the way and go on with how awesome this series is.
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