Feed by Mira Grant

Feed (Newsflesh, #1)

by Mira Grant

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.

Feed is the electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own -- -a novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.

Reviewed by Amber (The Literary Phoenix) on

5 of 5 stars

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This book absolutely floored me. Feed was on my TBR for a long time, and traditionally speaking, I don't go in for zombie books. But Feed really isn't a "zombie book", per se. It's a book about a political campaign and a conspiracy in a world after the zombie apocalypse. So anyone going into this book looking for a heavy reliance on the walking dead will be disappointed. Zombies play an important part, but zombies aren't the story.

We follow three strong characters through the story who are all about getting the news on a presidential hopeful, and insisting on telling the truth. There's assassination attempts and zombie outbreaks and scares as the Kellis-Amberlee virus takes members of the caravan. The research is great here - the science moves well and feels possible. The way the world has rebuilt itself - in organized quarantine rather than gore and survival - also feels real. We look too often for chaos in zombie dystopias, but the calm organization in this one was a bit refreshing.

The ending was brilliantly written and made me really mad. I'll definitely be picking up the rest of the Newsflesh trilogy and more of Mira Grant's work. I'm impressed.

This book will appeal to fans of a more subtle zombie story, fans of books where the characters will go to whatever end to uncover the story, and fans of sibling stories.

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