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tl;dr? Spider Jerusalem meets Night of the Living Dead. It's not a book about zombie outbreak, it's a book about journalism and its challenges. If you look at the emphasized elements of the story, it might as well be about independent bloggers trying to uncover some terrorist plot. Still, the zombie bit is well developed, well thought out and most of the time rather logical. If you like zombie stories, you'll like this one - provided you don't require whole humanity to perish as a result of zombie infection.My main problem with this book is its main protagonist - Georgia is so devoid of emotion and any affection, that she seems to act and behave almost like a robot. Combine that with her tireless truth crusade, and you get very flat, unsophisticated and unlikeable character. For majority of the book I was under impression that it's just mediocre writing - as I haven't read anything else by Mira Grant, I didn't know what to expect. Narration changes entirely the moment Georgia dies, and it turns out that Shaun isn't that much of a simpleton - it's just that Georgia seen him this way. The tone of the story changes too, and it looks to me like the previous sterile and dry tone was fully intended and put in there for a reason. In overall, I liked the book - it could be better, but I had a good fun reading it. The overall plot is rather simple and almost fully predictable. There are rather silly bits in there, but it's not the realism of the story that's strong side of this book. The main theme - what's journalism and what does it justify - is interesting, well executed and complete. Good stuff.Now, should I read the second part...?
tl;dr? Spider Jerusalem meets Night of the Living Dead. It's not a book about zombie outbreak, it's a book about journalism and its challenges. If you look at the emphasized elements of the story, it might as well be about independent bloggers trying to uncover some terrorist plot. Still, the zombie bit is well developed, well thought out and most of the time rather logical. If you like zombie stories, you'll like this one - provided you don't require whole humanity to perish as a result of zombie infection.My main problem with this book is its main protagonist - Georgia is so devoid of emotion and any affection, that she seems to act and behave almost like a robot. Combine that with her tireless truth crusade, and you get very flat, unsophisticated and unlikeable character. For majority of the book I was under impression that it's just mediocre writing - as I haven't read anything else by Mira Grant, I didn't know what to expect. Narration changes entirely the moment Georgia dies, and it turns out that Shaun isn't that much of a simpleton - it's just that Georgia seen him this way. The tone of the story changes too, and it looks to me like the previous sterile and dry tone was fully intended and put in there for a reason. In overall, I liked the book - it could be better, but I had a good fun reading it. The overall plot is rather simple and almost fully predictable. There are rather silly bits in there, but it's not the realism of the story that's strong side of this book. The main theme - what's journalism and what does it justify - is interesting, well executed and complete. Good stuff.Now, should I read the second part...?