Deadline

Deadline by Mira Grant, 584 pages

Deadline is the continuing of the series that started with Feed. It follows the blogging life of Shaun Mason and the rest of his crew and their blog "After the End Times". It also delves deeper into what happened to cause the original zombie outbreak and what happened in the first book.
Grant continues her interesting take on both zombies and the government response to an outbreak. There is a part in the book where they explain that the freshness of a zombie has an effect on the abilities that a zombie has. This is quite unique from the zombie books I have read and gives depth to the story.


Having finished this book and other science fiction books this month I am beginning to wonder why zombies get put in the fiction section while aliens or other just as believable themes get placed in science fiction.

Note: While the image seems to be stretched it is actually almost the same shape as the book, which pretty much looked like a stretched paperback.

Feed

Feed by Mira Grant, 599 pages

Another of the forcefully recommended books! This one is another interesting zombie novel. Sometime in the year 2014 the world had cured cancer and the flu. Sounds great until the two super cures merge and create a zombie apocalypse. The news tries to cover up the story but the blogger world tells it as they see it and reveal the truth. And that brings us to where the story begins. 

In this new world the bloggers reign supreme as the source of news and compete for the ratings. The book follows bloggers Shaun and Georgia as they try to get by in the post-apocalyptic world while reporting the news and keeping their ratings up.


The zombies of the book are a blend of the traditional shambles mixed with a couple of the Hollywood features, like thinking. It also has a zombie test kit and a society that does not completely collapse when the zombies appear. 

I am not sure I like the ending but will likely still continue reading the series.