justiceofkalr 's review for:

Countdown by Mira Grant

3.0

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Interesting short story in the Newsflesh trilogy. It feels very much like a rejected prologue to the first book. That's not to say it's bad, just that it would have been a terrible prologue. Lots of stories have lost me with prologues like this, taking too much time setting up the situation and getting too technical. I love that Feed just threw you into the post-Rising world with minimal background and left the less attention grabbing spread of the virus for this short story. It serves well for those who already enjoy the series and are curious about the spread of the original virus, but would probably not grab the attention of new readers. I love that the author did take the time to think out the spread of the virus and how it came to be. Too many times the zombie plague just comes from nowhere and I get left with the feeling that the author couldn't be bothered to think of anything complex like that and skipped straight to the brains and mayhem. Which is fun on occasion, but definitely dull after a while.