Lucas Blogs About Books

Books can affect you in any number of ways. Sometimes they  introduce you to new ideas and make your world bigger. Sometimes they speak to something deep inside you and make you feel like someone else understands. Sometimes they just wrench your guts out and send a cascade of hot tears down your face and make you wish you hadn't started reading that chapter on the bus. Feed by Mira Grant HERE THERE BE SPOILERS! When'd I read it? It was the summer of 2010, Borders was still a thing, and I picked up a couple of paperbacks that looked fun and pulpy, Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold  and Mira Grant's Feed.  One of them made me cry. What's it about? It's the not-too-distant future and the zombie apocalypse has become the status quo. Everyone's a carrier of the zombie virus. On the plus side, no one gets cancer or the common cold anymore. On the minus side, whenever someone dies (or their viral load exceeds safe levels) they transform into a ravening zom...

Huh, some idiot covered part of the author's name. All right, full disclosure time. I didn't finish reading this one. Whoa! Seriously, you're going to review a book that you didn't finish reading? Yeah, I mean, it's not like anyone's paying me to do this. Also, I thought maybe we could talk about whether you have an obligation to finish a book you're not enjoying. I'll allow it, but make sure you go somewhere with this. Thanks, Hypothetical Reader. You're the best. So, let's put in a little backstory. I enjoyed Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy from a few years ago ( Feed, Deadline, and Blackout ). The books are fun and feature engaging narrators in Georgia and Shaun Mason, the adoptive siblings who become embedded bloggers on a presidential campaign in a world in which the zombie apocalypse has become the status quo and ultimately end up uncovering a massive conspiracy. They've got a kind of late 90's Josh Whedon-y vibe t...