Book #181 of 2017: The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey The setup to this book resembles Never Let Me Go, which similarly puts children in a bizarre setting with evasive caretakers who encourage them to accept everything as normal. But whereas that novel frustrated me by dragging out its reveal for almost …
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Book #153 of 2017: Deadline by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #2) Mira Grant’s bloggers-fighting-zombies novel Feed was a surprising amount of fun, but this sequel surpasses it in just about every dimension. Partly that’s because the team has matured, so they seem less like teens on Xanga and more like real investigative journalists, and partly it’s …
TV #22 of 2017: iZombie, season 3 I really love the way iZombie’s seasons are self-contained storylines – creator Rob Thomas has likened them to books in a series – that inevitably blow up their premise in the finale to set up a brand-new status quo for the next season to dig into. The fallout …
Book #124 of 2017: Feed by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #1) Once you set aside this book’s ludicrous premise – not the zombie uprising, but the idea that independent teen bloggers represent a trusted news source – it ends up being a lot of fun. The story is set several decades after the undead outbreak, and …
Book #136 of 2016: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (Warm Bodies #1) Retelling Romeo and Juliet as a zombie love story – in this case between a human named Julie and a zombie narrator who thinks his name might have started with an R – is a clever idea. But author Isaac Marion doesn’t do …
Book #38 of 2016: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth #1) I like the setup for this novel, which takes place in what used to be America, several generations after a zombie apocalypse has wiped out most of humanity and our civilizations. The main character lives …
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