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Feed by Mira Grant

17 reviews

googles's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Religious bigotry, and Emotional abuse

silksmonkey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Grant does zombies so well and with her own twist using good science as a jumping off point

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

blushyfan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The ending makes me cry every time I read through it and this is the 5th time I went through this book! I'm excited to finally get a chance to read the rest of this series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

zealandrc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Such a thrilling read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Vomit

caterpillar's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, and Violence

thepermageek's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

More thriller than horror…which I was totally one with because Mira Grants world building in simply incredible!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Animal death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Vomit and Child death

cassie7e's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Pretty good depiction of what life after zombies might be like. Pacing was good. Main complaint is the exposition was repetitive - several things were explained to us several times throughout the book in almost the same wording.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence and Murder

bookbrig's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This was the perfect airplane read, and I (forgive me) devoured it and immediately jumped to the sequel. It's such a satisfying mix of political thriller/mystery/zombie story. Also reading it as yet another COVID variant spreads and surveillance by everything from Amazon Alexa to Ring to Google Home to CCTVs on street corners has become the norm was a bit surreal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Child death

generallycobalt's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

5.0

This series was my introduction to Mira Grant, and now I have multiple shelves dedicated solely to this incredibly prolific (and epidemiologically well-informed) author. Also she's a delightful individual.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gore, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Violence, Animal death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Incest

Incest doesn't show up in the first one, and isn't teeeeechnically incest since the characters are not biologically related, but the fact that it's one of the healthier relationships in the setting is much more damning of the setting than it is an endorsement of adopted siblings getting intimate. I didn't think it was done in a gross way, but anybody with personal incest trauma absolutely needs to know going in that it's gonna come up.

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 That blog post got me 12 years ago when I first read this and it just got me again 😭😭

I notice the normalized disability rep and aro/ace coded main character this time around and appreciate the (even if it was unknown to me at the time) contribution to my bookish upbringing those years ago.

Original review 👇🏼
This novel is a successful blend of zombies, politics and blogging. There's just enough of each element to make it appeal to many different readers, some of which are not entirely comfortable with all three elements. I myself was not fully on board with the blogging side of the novel, but I was converted easily. 
Feed is one of the best books I've read, and it changed my outlook on life. Sure, it's a "zombie" book, but it's got depth. It's a book that shows true familial love, loyalty to one's beliefs, and what it means to be alive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Suicide, and Terminal illness