I misread a detail in the first book, and I rather suspect the intention there was made explicit in the second book because I wasn't the only one. I was mostly disappointed because of how rare ace representation is, though some might object to the near-incest. Not quite incest, as they are unrelated, adopted siblings. Apparently that was not the intention, as it became clear in the second book that they had been lovers. In the first book, I came away with the impression that George and Shaun were both asexual. Everything felt well-researched and plausible. There's a huge conspiracy plot that begins in the first book and threads its way through the rest, and does eventually get resolved in part, by kidnapping the president, but what I really liked was the medical details about the zombie-virus (Kellis-Amberlee). The first book could have worked as a standalone, and I suspect it was written that way in case it didn't do well enough to merit a sequel, but it's in the second book that things really start to get interesting. I was initially not too enthused about Newsflesh, as zombies really aren't my thing, but Grant makes them fresh and interesting and fascinating, with a lot of shout-outs to "classic" zombie schtick for those who were already into zombies. I've enjoyed a lot of Seanan MacGuire's work, and only just started looking at her stuff written as Mira Grant.
Sadly, that world in which you can tell the truth and change minds, sway opinions, that world seems more unrealistic than the zombies. It's a theme throughout, and in the end, people believe them. And, spoiler alert, no really, stope reading here.you've been warned.the journalists break the big story. This book is about political intrigue and journalism as much as it is about zombies. Obama was in the White House, and the cracks of the current political divide were visible, but not yet become the yawning chasm we have now. Or the first volume did, and it's conception would have been much earlier.
The world has been changing for my lifetime, let's call it the last fifty years, and this book, although set in an alternate future of zombies, came out 12 years ago. I need to explain what kicked me out of the narrative, and to make it clear that it was not the author's fault. If you like zombies, this is a great take. A little over the top, maybe, but it kept me reading through all three books in the collection.
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