Book Review: Blackout, by Mira Grant

The Newsflesh trilogy ends with more conspiracies, and the squickiest part is not what you think. (Or maybe it is.)

Orbit, 2012, 659 pages

"Rise up while you can." (Georgia Mason)

The year was 2014. It was the year we cured cancer, the year we cured the common cold, and the year the dead started to walk. It was the year of the Rising.

The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. They uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made.

Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election of President Ryman is much bigger than anyone had assumed. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it in, the surviving staff of After the End Times must face mad scientists, zombie bears, rogue government agencies - and if there's one thing they know is true in post-zombie America, it's this:

Things can always get worse.

Blackout is the conclusion to the epic trilogy that began in the Hugo-nominated Feed and the sequel, Deadline.

( Warning: Incestuous necrophiliac spoilers, and a lot of irritated swearing about a book I actually liked. )

Verdict: This was a pretty solid conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy. Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire is not about to become my favorite author: this series was pretty much brain candy. But it's tasty brain candy, even if you aren't normally into zombie novels.

Also by Mira Grant: My reviews of Feed and Deadline.

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AQATWA: Crawling toward next year

Oh, I'll still try to finish it this year. But progress is definitely slower than previous books.

I am at 100K words now. And still on Act One.