Blackout
Ratings28
Average rating4.1
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Ratings28
Average rating4.1
The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant. Rise up while you can. -- Georgia Mason 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. The 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 in, 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. BLACKOUT is the conclusion to the epic trilogy that began in the Hugo-nominated FEED and the sequel, DEADLINE. Newsflesh FeedDeadlineBlackout For more from Mira Grant, check out: ParasitologyParasiteSymbiont Chimera Newsflesh Short FictionApocalypse Scenario #683: The BoxCountdownSan Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California BrowncoatsHow Green This Land, How Blue This SeaThe Day the Dead Came to Show and TellPlease Do Not Taunt the Octopus
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4 primary books10 released booksNewsflesh is a 10-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Mira Grant.
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I LOVED this book. Series endings are hard to do. There are always so many threads to tie up and so many character archs to follow. The Newsflesh series was a particularly complicated story. To say that Mira Grant successfully tied up this series would be a severe understatement. This was the perfect ending. Not only was it the best book in the series, but it was the best imaginable ending. It gave me everything I didn't realize I wanted and so much more. This book was full of so many twists I never saw anything coming ever.
I loved this, plain and simple. What a fantastic trilogy.
A good ending to the cycle, but somehow not as exciting as the first two books. There seemed to be significantly less zombie on blogger action which may have contributed to that.
This started out a little iffy and definitely had its SMH moments, but I thought it was an excellent (and final) end to the trilogy.
It's just okay.
The author has a serious issue with repeating the same phrases, and even situations, quite a bit. When you compare all the books to each other, you realize there's a pretty specific formula to each. There's a serious lack of action, and we only later hear about some of the more interesting things, and descriptions of many parts of the story are also lacking. I'm not even going to get into the ick factor controversy, mainly because it was completely predictable.
I wanted so much more from this series unfortunately. I felt like I wanted to love the characters, and I found the world incredibly interesting. However, so much fell flat or wasn't given enough attention that I ultimately can't say I care. Also, Shaun is awful. George is a much more interesting character, especially when Shaun isn't part of the equation. Codependency isn't cute.
