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aedoran08's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
skopsreads's review against another edition
5.0
Damn, this was good. While I'm not new to the author, I am new to to the Newsflesh writings, and it definitely did not disappoint! I loved how each story somehow connected with another to keep the world cohesive and continuous, while focusing on different characters and even different parts of the world. What I enjoyed most, though, is that the stories sort of strayed from classic outbreak storylines and gave us a new look at different aspects of what could happen.
icarooster's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This series makes me so mad because the worldbuilding is so interesting and thorough and then the author throws it away for an incest storyline
leavingsealevel's review
4.0
All the Feed stories, many of which I hadn't read. Many of which deal with the start of the zombie plague pandemic...too soon? These were all written before the (actual) pandemic, but they seemed very relevant and gave me a bit to think about wrt security and hygiene theater, actually.
pamwinkler's review
4.0
Very good collection. I got access to a lot of these through audiobooks of individual stories, thanks to my lovely library.
Countdown was beautifully creepy and lovely.
Everglades was interesting, but very short.
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats was good, but didn't grip me really strongly.
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea was really interesting. I thought it was going to have more of a big plot than it really did; more personal suspense. It felt like more of a interesting travelogue and I was expecting a tense political thriller, I think. It was good, but my expectations were off.
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell was good. I kept expecting more people to live. And the ending; how it went was truly horrifying.
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus was good. I really enjoy Dr. Shannon Abbey, she's a wonderful character.
All the Pretty Little Horses was mostly just sad.
Coming to You Live was good, and it was nice to get a full conclusion to Shaun and Georgia's story.
Countdown was beautifully creepy and lovely.
Everglades was interesting, but very short.
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats was good, but didn't grip me really strongly.
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea was really interesting. I thought it was going to have more of a big plot than it really did; more personal suspense. It felt like more of a interesting travelogue and I was expecting a tense political thriller, I think. It was good, but my expectations were off.
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell was good. I kept expecting more people to live. And the ending; how it went was truly horrifying.
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus was good. I really enjoy Dr. Shannon Abbey, she's a wonderful character.
All the Pretty Little Horses was mostly just sad.
Coming to You Live was good, and it was nice to get a full conclusion to Shaun and Georgia's story.
nanceoir's review against another edition
5.0
To be fair, I only read the two new novellas (and the short story I hadn't read before... and all the intros), so it's not like I read the whole book through. But I'd read those novellas before (and still think that what Mira Grant pulls off in San Diego 2014 is rather amazing), and I liked them all.
As for the new stories, they're pretty great. Not to give anything away, but "All the Pretty Little Horses" gives some pretty unsympathetic characters from the full novels remarkable depth and I think meeting them again in the novels will be a different sort of experience. As for "Coming to You Live," even with everything they're going through and how difficult it sometimes was being in their heads, I just found that I'd missed those voices.
As for the new stories, they're pretty great. Not to give anything away, but "All the Pretty Little Horses" gives some pretty unsympathetic characters from the full novels remarkable depth and I think meeting them again in the novels will be a different sort of experience. As for "Coming to You Live," even with everything they're going through and how difficult it sometimes was being in their heads, I just found that I'd missed those voices.
sbender_1031's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
jefffrane's review
5.0
This book has been out for several years now and I'm guessing that real Mira Grant fans have already, er, devoured it. I came to it via Seanan McGuire and genuine curiosity about how that author could also produce fairly straight-forward horror. This is Mira Grant's take on the zombie apocalypse (is it now a "proverbial" zombie apocalypse?) and it's no surprise that Grant/McGuire has created something quite different than George Romero. McGuire is something of a master of the novella and Rise collects all of her stories about The Rising along with some bonus material.
Much of the book is framed by a fictional investigative news network that was created in response to the devastation of the zombies (not all of which are human). She sets things up with the scientific background of the plague(s) triggering the disaster, then segues to an amusing(?) and creepy tale of zombies at the San Diego Comic Con. The framing then allows her to demonstrate the apocalypse on a global scale, setting the story in Australia before she moves back to more personal stories. People are something else that McGuire is masterful with and what amazed me was realizing, late in the story, that she had seeded all of the major characters in the concluding chapters throughout the book, with hints and references from other characters. By the time we actually meet the two central characters we've gotten an enormous level of background on them in a very casual fashion.
But even when we finally meet Georgia and Shaun and we know how remarkable their lives have been, McGuire tantalizes us with references to events and adventures in their lives that many authors would have spun into entire novels. And it feels as if we could read those novels and that they must exist somewhere, but it is so much more delicious that they don't.
The more I read Grant/McGuire the more impressed I am. I realize that others were way ahead of me on this and I'm OK with that.
This is a big fat book. Please pretend it isn't and dive in.
Much of the book is framed by a fictional investigative news network that was created in response to the devastation of the zombies (not all of which are human). She sets things up with the scientific background of the plague(s) triggering the disaster, then segues to an amusing(?) and creepy tale of zombies at the San Diego Comic Con. The framing then allows her to demonstrate the apocalypse on a global scale, setting the story in Australia before she moves back to more personal stories. People are something else that McGuire is masterful with and what amazed me was realizing, late in the story, that she had seeded all of the major characters in the concluding chapters throughout the book, with hints and references from other characters. By the time we actually meet the two central characters we've gotten an enormous level of background on them in a very casual fashion.
But even when we finally meet Georgia and Shaun and we know how remarkable their lives have been, McGuire tantalizes us with references to events and adventures in their lives that many authors would have spun into entire novels. And it feels as if we could read those novels and that they must exist somewhere, but it is so much more delicious that they don't.
The more I read Grant/McGuire the more impressed I am. I realize that others were way ahead of me on this and I'm OK with that.
This is a big fat book. Please pretend it isn't and dive in.