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A review by ryanpfw
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea by Mira Grant
3.0
Read from February 21, 2017 to February 25, 2017
I flipped on this one and ended up downgrading it a full star.
I took issue with some of the plot choices In Countdown but felt it essentially accomplished what it needed to to. Browncoats blew it out of the park, and while this one is as detail-oriented as I would expect from Mira Grant, the plot was woefully lacking. What stands out most is jetlag.
I appreciate the PR oriented society, and while some of the specific policies on kangaroos were head scratching (conservation is one thing, but letting the clearly infected attack the fence in perpetuity when they're clearly not going to recover reminds me of Herschel trying to keep the walkers in his barn), the theme of "nature's last refuge" was well delivered. The characters were layered and interesting.
It felt that Mira Grant took one shot at climactic action that collapsed in the middle of a paragraph. It was pointless and could have been accomplished with dialogue without cloak and dagger. It went nowhere, plotwise. I'm as detail obsessed as the next guy, but this one bored me a bit.
And I thought the mosquitoes were sterile?
I flipped on this one and ended up downgrading it a full star.
I took issue with some of the plot choices In Countdown but felt it essentially accomplished what it needed to to. Browncoats blew it out of the park, and while this one is as detail-oriented as I would expect from Mira Grant, the plot was woefully lacking. What stands out most is jetlag.
I appreciate the PR oriented society, and while some of the specific policies on kangaroos were head scratching (conservation is one thing, but letting the clearly infected attack the fence in perpetuity when they're clearly not going to recover reminds me of Herschel trying to keep the walkers in his barn), the theme of "nature's last refuge" was well delivered. The characters were layered and interesting.
It felt that Mira Grant took one shot at climactic action that collapsed in the middle of a paragraph. It was pointless and could have been accomplished with dialogue without cloak and dagger. It went nowhere, plotwise. I'm as detail obsessed as the next guy, but this one bored me a bit.
And I thought the mosquitoes were sterile?