A review by songwind
Blackout by Mira Grant

4.0

Mira Grant did an excellent job of wrapping up the Newsflesh Trilogy. The events of previous books are wrapped up, or at least brought to some sort of stability. Conspiracies are revealed, old friends are reunited, new friends are made. New and old friends both die horribly, eaten by zombies.

It's hard to think how to review anything specific about this book without giving away too much from the earlier books in the trilogy. If you liked them, you'll like this one, I think. If you haven't read them, you should go check them out before even worrying about book:Blackout|11806716].

If there is one thing I don't like about this book and its predecessor, it is that a lot of what drew me to the first novel, book:Feed|7094569] is lost. The adventures of Girl and Boy Reporter, uncovering the truth and bringing it to you, are lost in more standard adventures and secrecy. It's not really a bad thing in and of itself, but I miss it a bit.

I always hated
Spoilerbooks where death is impermanent. Maybe it's all those years of getting frustrated by comics. So after the end of [b:Deadline|8429687|Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy, #2)|Mira Grant|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1314464938s/8429687.jpg|13292985], I was ready to be really let down by the "George is back from the dead" angle. I was pleased that Grant did an excellent job with it, and it wasn't any sort of miracle fix or running the clock backwards. George's clone is imperfect, her own person in many ways, and very conflicted. Her friends can't seem to decide if they are happy, terrified or disgusted when she appears. It works.