patchworkbunny reviewed Feed The Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant
Review of 'Feed The Newsflesh Trilogy' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
The story starts with a man poking a zombie with a stick...
The main characters are bloggers in a world where people have lost faith in corporate news. If the big fish told everyone the schools were safe just before your children got infected whilst the blogosphere was alerting people to the true threat, who would you trust?
The plot follows the blogging team as they join a senator on his presidential campaign. Whilst the politics have been amended to fit the international zombie crisis, they can easily be applied to current affairs. Feed raises some very topical questions such as, which is more important, freedom or safety?
The presence of zombies does tend to place this book in the horror genre, but its themes put it firmly in the science fiction camp. What's scary is not really the zombies, but what humankind is capable of and when characters die, …
The story starts with a man poking a zombie with a stick...
The main characters are bloggers in a world where people have lost faith in corporate news. If the big fish told everyone the schools were safe just before your children got infected whilst the blogosphere was alerting people to the true threat, who would you trust?
The plot follows the blogging team as they join a senator on his presidential campaign. Whilst the politics have been amended to fit the international zombie crisis, they can easily be applied to current affairs. Feed raises some very topical questions such as, which is more important, freedom or safety?
The presence of zombies does tend to place this book in the horror genre, but its themes put it firmly in the science fiction camp. What's scary is not really the zombies, but what humankind is capable of and when characters die, it's not about gore but about loss. It's overall much more thought-provoking and moving than horror ever is.
If you were avoiding this book because of the zombies don't. It's for anyone interested in the changing face of journalism and the rise of social media. The zombies just accelerated the process...
