Will Sargent reviewed Deadline by Mira Grant
Review of 'Deadline' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Read Feed. Came in. Bought this book two days later.
What I love about this book is not just the society it has, where the Internet is a given and the house is smart enough to ask you how you'd like to be showered. It's not just that everyone, from the security guards to the truckers to the flight attendents are armed to the teeth and would be voted Most Likely To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse in any other novel.
It's about the young kids who are smart enough and crazy enough to poke zombies with sticks and post it on their blog for attention, who grow into smart and crazy adults who by their nature can't resist poking at what the government gets up to when no-one's looking.
Because the problem isn't the zombies. It's the culture of fear that surrounds the zombies. It's about what that does to …
Read Feed. Came in. Bought this book two days later.
What I love about this book is not just the society it has, where the Internet is a given and the house is smart enough to ask you how you'd like to be showered. It's not just that everyone, from the security guards to the truckers to the flight attendents are armed to the teeth and would be voted Most Likely To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse in any other novel.
It's about the young kids who are smart enough and crazy enough to poke zombies with sticks and post it on their blog for attention, who grow into smart and crazy adults who by their nature can't resist poking at what the government gets up to when no-one's looking.
Because the problem isn't the zombies. It's the culture of fear that surrounds the zombies. It's about what that does to society, and what society is willing to do to itself just so it can feel safer at night. And it's about what happens when there's finally someone willing to look.