Deadline (Mira Grant) kicks ass

Sometimes you read a book and it’s so big and awesome that you’re thrilled to have read it and sad that it’s over. I felt like that about Feed and then I was simultaneously delighted and horrified to find out it was the start of a trilogy. After all, how often to the other books measure up to that initial, amazing, blow-your-mind goodness?

Deadline delivers, in spades. From the start to the kick, it sinks its teeth in (ha! Zombie pun!) and doesn’t let go. The thing that made Georgia awesome – and some more – in Feed makes Shaun awesome and deranged in Deadline. If you’re like me, you were worried about the voice and how it would work out without Georgia. I can safely say you’ll enjoy the result. At the same time it’s a rip-tearing adventure, it’s also a chilling commentary about news, information and who decides which is which – and who should be controlling the flow (or not, as it were). In a time of wikileaks and Net Neutrality, the recent major corporate hack attacks are going to have those who pay off our representatives itching to pull the trigger on half-baked (if well-intentioned) legislation. More than ever, we need to be paying attention to this and speaking loudly about what ‘freedom’ really means. Pretty awesome that you get all that and zombies to boot.

I started Deadline and couldn’t stop clicking until I was done 4 hours later. It’s so good that I got out of bed to post about how awesome it is on the internet. It’s possible I’ve never been so excited about a third book coming out.