Wednesday review roundup (to be followed by content later).

[seanan_mcguire]

You know the drill: the links are winning, and it's time to smack them down again. I'm trying to keep these posts to a minimum, and I thank you all for your patience. I'll provide koala pictures soon, as penance.

First up, there's a really fun interview with Mira Grant on the Realm Cast, including some questions that aren't part of the "every time, they ask me" list. In fact, some of these questions were totally new. Reward ingenuity! It's fun!

Necroscope is the official zombie fiction review blog of Horrorscope (which says something terrifying about the scope of zombie fiction), and has posted a review of Feed, saying "Feed is a page-turner of the highest order, which hits the reader (emotionally speaking) like a ton of bricks when their defenses are down. A must-read for all fans of horror, SF, and anything in-between." Okay, Chuck at Necroscope, I officially adore you.

Oh, what the hell, have another Feed review, this one from Lordazen's blog. He says, "Mira Grant's first release in the Newsflesh trilogy is a roller coaster ride of action and emotion. She has captured the Zombie apocalypse in its most raw format and dishes it out on discs of pure saw blade lethality. An excellent beginning to what promises to be a thrill ride of a series." Fantastic!

Sick Damage has posted a review of Feed, complete with a first for me in book reviews: a picture of Conan the Barbarian. Well, okay. Anyway, their reviewer says, "The book is really really good. There are a lot of twists and turns and plenty of action to keep you going. It’s also one of the more original zombie novels I've read in a while." Thank you, Conan!

Finally for this batch, since I try to stop at five, Beyond Scary has posted a review of Feed, and says, "I had a lot of fun with this book, which is just as well as it runs to a lurching 560 odd pages of mayhem, and was generally surprised at just how well written it was. Okay the whole media thing isn't a Down Under perspective but I could get with the program there and go with the flow. I have seen the future of the zombie novel folks, and am now simply dying to get my hands on the next novel. Wonder if Mira Grant has thought about a sequel or another novel set in her undead world?" You have no idea how much this review makes me want to set a Newsflesh-universe book set in Australia. ZOMBIE KANGAROOS FOR EVERYBODY!

And that's a wrap. For now.

Comments

[deakat]

That interview rocks! I've shared it with my family and friends because:

1) It's vastly entertaining!
2) They will feel compelled to run out and buy the book! Now!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"a Newsflesh-universe book set in Australia"

Write it and I will totally buy it! Zombie kangaroos FTW!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

If I come up with a plot any time soon, I'll consider it.

[theashgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, zombie kangaroos. Kangaroos are awesome and terrifying anyway - 6 ft tall things that can kick you hard enough to snap your spine! - so zombifying them would clearly up the awesome factor.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[solarbird]

I didn't even know Conan could read! I wonder if Feed has displaced the whole driving-your-enemies-before-you shtick now?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It'd be funny if it had.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

So remember that time Mira Grant was mentioned in the Washington Post?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

...dude.

Yes. Yes, I do.

[lysystratae.livejournal.com]

Zombie... kangaroos.

And you wonder why we love you :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Because it's safer than fearing me!

[yellowblackhaze.livejournal.com]

If you're going to make an Aussie animal a zombie, try an emu. They're scary enough now. I dread to imagine a zombie version. Emus, shudder.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I can't. Bird zombies would break the rules of my universe, and then everyone would die.

[batyatoon]

You have no idea how much this review makes me want to set a Newsflesh-universe book set in Australia.



... WANT.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

HELLO SLOTH HELLO!

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

My eyes hurt from trying to read the interview on the Realm Cast.
They DID ask some new questions. Why didn't *I* think of having the CDC on speeddial?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Because you're sane?

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Well, I do have a DSM-IVR diagnosis code...and when my son was younger, I should have had it on the phone list under Emergency #s

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee.

Erm, you know Conan started off in literature, right?

[al-harron.livejournal.com]

Back in 1932, in Weird Tales magazine. Just sayin'.

Re: Erm, you know Conan started off in literature, right?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I've read quite a bit of the original text. He still doesn't normally review my books. Much like Cujo and Pennywise the Clown began in literature, and don't normally review my books. Which is kind of a shame, really.

Re: Erm, you know Conan started off in literature, right?

[al-harron.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. You'd be surprised the number of people who think Conan was invented in 1982.

Re: Erm, you know Conan started off in literature, right?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

People scare me.

Finding "Feed" in unexpected places

[tintiger.livejournal.com]

There I was minding my own business in a national chain bookshop/stationers - and there was Feed - in the Crime section! :-)

Re: Finding "Feed" in unexpected places

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

DUDE.

All Hallows' Read

[rhyolight04.livejournal.com]

I gave FEED to my friend for the newly-minted tradition of giving someone a scary book for Halloween. http://www.allhallowsread.com/

Re: All Hallows' Read

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Okay, that rules. Thank you!