PaperbackReader reviewed Blackout by Seanan McGuire
Review of 'Blackout' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Not a very satisfying conclusion. Plus, many of my issues with these novels were unresolved.
eBook, 671 pages
Published May 22, 2012 by Orbit.
3 stars
(3 reviews)
The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.
The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. 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, the surviving staff of …
The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.
The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. 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, 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.
4thace reviewed Blackout by Mira Grant
Review of 'Blackout' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I'm not the proper audience for this book, having missed the first two parts of the trilogy. But I'm reading it for the 2013 Hugo Award ballot anyway.
I liked the Georgia II chapters more than the Shaun ones, maybe because I identified with the disorientation she felt. I didn't understand the coincidence of her liberation from captivity, nor the way the climactic action scene worked out. It probably was cathartic to readers who followed the entire series and who probably had a greater tolerance for running zombie scenes
The chapter headings got more annoying to me the further I got into the novel, but I can see that once this structure had been established, it could no longer be abandoned.
Subjects
- Conspiracies
- Political corruption
- Paranormal fiction
- Blogs
- Fiction
- Viruses
- Hostages
- Reporters and reporting
- Zombies
- Twins
- Virus diseases
- Corruption
- Good and evil
- Fiction, horror
- Journalists
- nyt:mass-market-paperback=2012-06-10
- New York Times bestseller