Book Review FEED

Author: Mira Grant
Year : 2010

SUB INFO
First part in a series of books called the newsflesh series, The authors name is not really Mira Grant its a pseudonym for Seanan McGuire.
The book follows the lives of three bloggers living in a post apocalyptic world as hey follow a presidential campaign as reporters.

Review

Feed follows the aftermath of a viral zombie outbreak that happened in the year 2014, Viral is one of my favourite ways to bring about a zombie apoc.
Radiation, voodoo, chemical or some act of god are all good and well done by a lot of people but if this was really going happen? You can bet it'd be an experiment gone wrong. The way the virus is explained you can tell Mira/Seanan knows her stuff. Originally a cure to the common cold and cancer they met and formed a new super virus called Kellis Amberlee.
Referenced through out the book mostly as KA.
Explicitly detailed in the way it mutated and the way it infects Mira will keep anyone who is interested in that side reading this book alone.
This isn't a run down world is a ruin type zombie apocalypse story. We won, well kind of major cities are ours and the virus is contained. It's in us all though just dormant protecting us from the bad things it was designed too, though just waiting for the moment to spring into life and take you over.
People don't interact in real life much due to the fear of an outbreak if some one turns. The Internet blogging world is a way for these scared people to stay in and read up on whats going on around them.

So the story follows 3 such bloggers The Masons Georgia and Shaun and their Techie Georgette Meissonier. There is a holy trinity of sorts on these new news sites. They consist of 3 types of news people the newsie dedicated to telling the story as is and to the point. Irwin's (this name made me smile as a homage to good ole Steve) this reporters actively go out into the field and poke zombies and then write up on it, not just that though they also learn and tell you the best protective measures to use in emergencies.
Lastly there is the fictionals the people who write anything fiction about zombies from love stories to poems.
Georgia and Shaun are brother and sister though they lost their real mother and father at a young age and have been adopted by the masons who got them into their line of work.
Georgia is a dedicated newsie only telling the truth which she actively pursues with a religious fervour. Shaun is a Irwin which Georgia hates, they both believe that he'll die before her and she constantly scolds him for doing stupid things.
Georgette or as she likes being called Buffy (as she likes the show) is the teams fictional she is also their techno freak she can set up bugs and listening/recording devices before you know it. She is able to hack and stop hackers alike with ease.
this is the main team each of them has a sub section on their site after the end times where they have a few underlings for each of their sections also writing or sorting through things for them.

They early on in the book get told that an application to follow a new presidential trail is accepted. So the three go on what they think will be a no holds barred new story following the would be president around and reporting on his campaign.
Things take a turn for worse however when they uncover a plot to sabotage Rymans campaign that's all I'll say as i don't want to spoil anymore other than it involves terrorism and the use of live state virus.
I love the way you get blog reports in around the story chapters it makes you believe your following a trail very effectively and some of the later ones are very heart felt.
Suffice to say this story has hardly any drab or boring parts theres nearly always something to keep you interested and reading. Not that there isn't the occasional low point but these are very few and far between.
The ending of this book, now I'm a man and even i got a lump in my throat near the end an effective and good end to a book i very much enjoyed reading I've now moved onto the second book in the trilogy Deadline and will review as soon as i have read it.

A very solid 5 stars for this book and would suggest ANY zombie lover to give it a go