Tag Archive: zombies

Review: Blackout by Mira Grant

I’d kind of like to take a photo of my stunned, tear-streaked face and just post that but I’m terribly unphotogenic, so I will have to use my magical writer skills and explain my feelings about Blackout in words. SPOILER-FREE (For Basically the Entire Trilogy, Because I Am Awesome Like That) Because if anyone had …

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Common Mistakes YA Dystopian Novels Make

I was talking to a friend the other day about all of the recent dystopian novels that have come out and tried to tout themselves as “The Next Hunger Games!” It’s a silly, but understandable marketing tactic, because people are always looking for the next big THING. The Next Harry Potter or the Next Twilight …

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Zombie Love!

I hated zombies as a kid because they genuinely scared me, and later because it felt like every zombie thing was exactly the same. The dead start walking around trying to eat the living, people do dumb things and die, and no one understands the simplicity of shooting the infected the minute the infection happens …

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Review: “Countdown” by Mira Grant

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Countdown is a supplemental novella by Mira Grant that goes along with her “Newsflesh” zombie series (so far, Feed and Deadline.) The books take place post-outbreak, and follow a group of bloggers covering the news in a zombie-infested world. The series is remarkable for going into detail about the epidemiology of the viruses that combined …

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