Feed (Newsflesh, #1)

by Mira Grant

[wyvernfriend]

In the year 2014, cancer is cured as is the common cold, only there's a side effect. The dead don't always stay dead, they rise again, as zombies, with a lust for human flesh, and their bite can turn ordinary humans into zombies. Twenty years later people live lives that are largely secluded, relying on online newsfeeds for information and your popularity can make or break you. A popular feed can earn you a lot of income and Shaun and Georigia Mason are pretty popular. Shaun is a Irwin, a risktaker and Georgia is a newsie, a person who works with fact and trys to report it as objectively as possible. With their friend Buffy, an electronics geek and Fictional (or fiction writer) their star starts to rise when they're offerred a chance to join a presidential campaign, but far from being good it embroils them in a complicated and messy conspiracy and their lives will never be the same again.

Now I've read Seannan Maguire's blog over the years and enjoyed it, and read her October Daye books and enjoyed them too and Zombies are a major squick factor with me. They tend to give me nasty nightmares and have me almost running for the hills, but I had heard about this, and that it was good and I decided to try it, and left it on my TBR shelf for a while, picking it up and putting it down again. And then I had to take some time off sick, and there was some much-missing sun, so I decided that this was a good time to at least try. And it was a good read, I was totally sucked in and really enjoyed the story, it's compelling with twists that I really didn't expect and was quite shocked by. It left me wanting to read the next books immediately, which alas I can't do but seriously I will have to get them and read them.

It's a good read, forget that it's a zombie book, it's a good near-future science fiction series that left me wanting more.