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blogging the zombie apocalypse
I finished reading Feed by Mira Grant tonight. It has been eating up all my commute time this week (I actually finished it in three days). I kinda got the sense for the last 150 pages or so that things were going to go bad, so I curled up on my bed earlier to finish it.
Um, well. I sobbed my way hysterically through the last 100 pages and then kept crying for like 10 minutes after I was done. That happened. Yes it did.
I just need to let some emotions out to decompress for a little bit. When I started reading, I actually didn't know anything about the series, I just had a vague sense that there were zombies. And as I started reading, I thought it was cool that there was this whole structure of new media and spread of information. The blog excerpts scattered between chapters really adds to that sense of "this is the news, reported to you".
And then suddenly it wasn't about the zombies at all, but about the ways that this team of reporters was isolating this information and passing it on. Georgia as a main character was interesting because she WAS all about the truth (and nothing but) and there was no other way for her story to end, I think. She died doing what she believed in and let me tell you... that last part, with the blog entry... it gutted me.
And then of course you are given the aftermath and just... I dunno. I think I have stopped making sense, actually. I guess I knew it was coming, but I didn't expect it to hit me as hard as it did. The writing really brought you, as the reader, right into her head and her beliefs, so you are basically with her right up the end as she struggles to get that last truth out into the world.
Sometimes I feel like I wish I had something I believed in that much.
Um, well. I sobbed my way hysterically through the last 100 pages and then kept crying for like 10 minutes after I was done. That happened. Yes it did.
I just need to let some emotions out to decompress for a little bit. When I started reading, I actually didn't know anything about the series, I just had a vague sense that there were zombies. And as I started reading, I thought it was cool that there was this whole structure of new media and spread of information. The blog excerpts scattered between chapters really adds to that sense of "this is the news, reported to you".
And then suddenly it wasn't about the zombies at all, but about the ways that this team of reporters was isolating this information and passing it on. Georgia as a main character was interesting because she WAS all about the truth (and nothing but) and there was no other way for her story to end, I think. She died doing what she believed in and let me tell you... that last part, with the blog entry... it gutted me.
And then of course you are given the aftermath and just... I dunno. I think I have stopped making sense, actually. I guess I knew it was coming, but I didn't expect it to hit me as hard as it did. The writing really brought you, as the reader, right into her head and her beliefs, so you are basically with her right up the end as she struggles to get that last truth out into the world.
Sometimes I feel like I wish I had something I believed in that much.
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Oh my god, Feed! I absolutely adore that book - I've been forcing it onto everyone I know because it's one of my all-time favourites. The ending is just heartbreaking, but the book itself, with the worldbuilding and the characters - amazing.
Have you started the sequel, Deadline, yet? It's in no way a let down, except for the fact that it's the second book in a trilogy, and the last book isn't out until next May!
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I have Deadline already and plan to start it this weekend. I am excited.
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And you should be excited about Deadline - I wish I could go back and read it for the first time again! You learn even more about the world in it, simply amazing!