booksblabbering 's review for:

Feed by Mira Grant

3.5

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Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

Bloggers Shaun and Georgia are non-blood related sibling orphans of the zombie uprising. They have been chosen to follow a republics Senator’s run for the Presidency of the United States - desperate to leave a mark on the world - informing and morality. 

In a world filled with the constant threat of both the living and the living dead, aided by the rest of their blogging team, Senator Ryman’s staff, and a whole lot of caffeine, they face even darker secrets than those who raise from the dead. 

Feed is not a horror. It is more a political thriller studying human behaviour and actions - think An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.

Grant knows how to write a dynamic group of characters!  

Georgia “George” Mason (a by the book “newsie”), her foster brother Shaun Mason (a daredevil “Irwin”) and Georgette “Buffy” Mesonnier (a dreamy creative) are extremely fun - especially to listen to in audiobook format. Talk about creating a family unit in a messed up situation and making their life the norm. 

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

This is such a unique take on the zombie story, so for this reason I think it will appeal to a different set of audience that might be more likely to pick it up based on the word ‘zombie’. 

There was quite a bit of info-dumping, but the audiobook makes the experience so immersive I barely noticed it until reading other reviews and realising how it might have read dryly.

There are also some technology decrepencies where certain things are developed and other seems to have been stuck in time from when Grant wrote the novel. 

Like I mentioned, I would recommend this to fans of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green as well as World War Z.