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A review by picklestar
Feedback by Mira Grant
3.0
I think this more of a 3.5 star read for me, but I can't quite decide.
The world of The Rising is back in this prequal/sequal running concurrently with the events in FEED. Mira Grant gives us a new team of intrepid bloggers, a new presidential candidate and the same big old political conspiracy run by mad scientists with guns. And zombies. Duh.
Like the rest of the Newsflesh books, Feedback is a bloody mess of fun. It panders to my love of conspiracy theories, sci fi, zombies, sassy female characters and internet culture. Man, the post-Rising world would have some DANK POLITICAL MEMES.
The only criticism I have with FEEDBACK is the same this that has grated with me throughout the series - the large and frequent chunks of exposition and apparently unnecessary world building. Like, something significant has just taken place demonstrating the need for some precaution or action or zombie implaing mechanism or other, then Grant spends another page or so explaining the significance of what has just occurred. One more time for the people in the back I guess, although I find it slows the action a little too much for me at times.
Besides that, this book is great fun for the zombie and horror crew, although if you haven't read the original trilogy I'd recommend starting there first. Plus, the main protagonists are racially diverse and queer AF. LGBTQA+ Sci Fi FTW.
The world of The Rising is back in this prequal/sequal running concurrently with the events in FEED. Mira Grant gives us a new team of intrepid bloggers, a new presidential candidate and the same big old political conspiracy run by mad scientists with guns. And zombies. Duh.
Like the rest of the Newsflesh books, Feedback is a bloody mess of fun. It panders to my love of conspiracy theories, sci fi, zombies, sassy female characters and internet culture. Man, the post-Rising world would have some DANK POLITICAL MEMES.
The only criticism I have with FEEDBACK is the same this that has grated with me throughout the series - the large and frequent chunks of exposition and apparently unnecessary world building. Like, something significant has just taken place demonstrating the need for some precaution or action or zombie implaing mechanism or other, then Grant spends another page or so explaining the significance of what has just occurred. One more time for the people in the back I guess, although I find it slows the action a little too much for me at times.
Besides that, this book is great fun for the zombie and horror crew, although if you haven't read the original trilogy I'd recommend starting there first. Plus, the main protagonists are racially diverse and queer AF. LGBTQA+ Sci Fi FTW.