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Blackout by Mira Grant
Published by Orbit Books, an imprint of Hachette
Blackout is the third book in the Feed trilogy and, as such, this review contains spoilers for the previous books in the series, Feed and Deadline.
Everything started going wrong when After the End Times followed the Ryman presidential campaign. Now they’re on the run, hunted down by the CDC. Actually, Shaun and his team are being hunted. His sister, Georgia, is dead. Well, she was dead. Now she’s alive again in a CDC facility. Sort of alive. Actually, she’s a clone, and not the first one they made of the original Georgia Mason, just the most realistic one to date. Can the After the End Times team reunite and break the biggest story of their lives before being take down by the CIA - or by zombie bears?
You GUYS. I preordered Blackout on my Nook. PREORDERED. And then I waited six months to read it. WHY? WHY I ASK YOU? WHY? Okay, but seriously, Blackout was perhaps my favorite of all of the books in the Feed trilogy, despite the fact it had been 18 months (and, oh, 300 books) since I had read any of the previous installments in the trilogy, so I had forgotten things.
But really, this is quite possibly the best book in the Feed trilogy. I adored the first one for the world building more than anything else (well, that and the politics and blogging angle…okay, I really just liked it a bunch in general), but even though Grant plays with her reader’s brains and sense of right and wrong, Blackout is just amazing. It all works, it all comes together. It also makes me want to go back and reread this entire series from the beginning, including the prequel novellas and the novella that is chronologically between Feed and Deadline. And then I want to sit patiently at Mira Grant (a pen name of Seanan McGuire)’s feet and wait for her to write more zombie things.
I love when the end of a trilogy validates my having started the trilogy in the first place, and Blackout does that in spades. Very highly recommended.
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Great review! I finished Blackout recently as well. I really liked the trilogy and I think Georgia is such an awesome character, but I found Shaun to be SUUUUPER annoying as a narrator. Otherwise I thought this series rocked.
Really? It never occurred to me to find him annoying, although I guess I can see it in retrospect. He was so damaged it all just seems right to me. I WAS always happiest with Georgia’s POV, though, and Deadline was my least favorite of the books, so maybe I found him annoying and didn’t even realize.
I listened to Feed and loved it. I have Deadline in print but really want to get the audio of it as well. I’m glad to see the series stays solid.
I thought this one got a little long in the middle, but was a great series ending. And I am usually hyper-critical of conclusions.
Oh, I raced through this one, for me it was Deadline that got too long. But maybe I’m more critical of the mid-series slump.
Just received the box set of this series for Christmas. Really looking forward to reading it!
I really want to read this trilogy at some point…
I accidentally bought another book a couple of years ago whilst trying to buy the first book, and then like most books, once I bought it I shelved it on my Kindle and haven’t read it yet. I NEED to make time for this, because I love zombies. Sigh
aw I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much! I actually think Feed remains my favorite of the trilogy, but this was such a great zombie universe.
The Great Zombie Universe would be an awesome band name.
I went back and looked at my review. I wrote that I though it wrapped up too quickly and I wasn’t satisfied with the ending but now I can’t even remember what the ending was! I blame the children.