I especially enjoyed some of the commentary on ‘ethics’ and ‘truth’ because if you ignore the zombies this book has a lot of insightful observations about the media culture in the US (and the rest of the world).Īnother plus for this book was decent non- Mary-Sue female protagonist! I don’t want to give anything away, so I shall not say any more. Since I have also been reading extensively on propaganda, communication techniques, narrative theories and all sorts of other wonderful things (like disconnection from traditional media sources and what that means for politics), Grant’s version of future news media as blogging was also fascinating. Yes, my university degree impacts on how I read zombie novels, and I am well aware that Grant may not have had any intention of it being read like that, but it doesn’t make it any less interesting as a political commentary in the face of a threat. My favourite part about reading this book was thinking of it as an allegory for the US fear-mongering in response to the threat of terrorism.

In the genre the good (who could go past ‘ World War Z‘?) and the bad (I want 5 hours of my life back- ‘ Married with Zombies‘) seem to have all, or at least most, of their action taking place during the main ‘rising’. The first surprising thing was the setting, or rather the time of the setting, 20 years after the ‘Rising’ is not you usual starting point for a zombie novel. Mira Grant‘s book ‘ Feed‘ did not disappoint, it had a sizeable helping of gadgets and gore which is expected of this kind of book, but what made me love it was all the unexpected angles on inquiry into society. I must first admit that I have a soft spot for zombie books, and apocalypse books in general, which is what originally made me buy this book online.

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