I can’t remember the exact wording, but that line captures why the book works for me. One of the key lines for me came early in the book, when Georgia Mason (our protagonist) remarks that the zombies aren’t the story. And a trio of bloggers has just been selected to follow and report on presidential candidate Peter Ryman. Certain territories are more hazardous, and declared off-limits. The book is set twenty-five years after the uprising, and society has adapted (somewhat) to the presence of zombies.
But if you’re bitten/infected by a zombie, that also triggers the transformation, and you’re a walking corpse within minutes. Everyone is infected: when you die, the virus reanimates you as a zombie. The zombie uprising began in 2014, due to a combination of two viruses meant to eliminate the common cold and cure cancer. An absolute must-read, pick up 'Feed' today for a zombie-book you'll devour.I finished reading Feed by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) this week. However, as things are wont to do, the journey soon takes a turn for the disastrous when it's discovered that someone is weaponising the zombies in a manner that can only be described as biological warfare. Our narrator is Georgia Mason, a blogger who is hired with her teammates as the first blog-team to cover the American Presidential campaign. Grant builds this world beautifully with a rigorous system of blood tests, side-effects, stats and numbers that all work together seamlessly to make the 'zombies' of the novel and the world that evolves as a result. Two medical advances (the cure for cancer and the cure for the common cold) combined and mutated several decades ago to affect all mammallian life. Gone are the boring zombies with a hunger for brains and instead in their place is a brilliant scientific explanation.
It's political intrigue, it's the future of America in social media, it's pure, well-designed science fiction. Whilst 'Feed' can technically be described as a post zombie-apocolypse, it's so much more.
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