San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats (Newsflesh Trilogy, #0.6)
Format: kindle
ASIN: 13641099
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 120
Cross-posted on ReaderlingI am of the opinion that Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy is perfect summer vacation reading. Even though those books are bloated by all kinds of Coke drinking, logistical chicanery, and wangst, the pages absolutely rip along, like finding a google hole of related self-impor...
I think it’s every geek’s major goal: Get to San Diego Comic-Con one day. It is our haven, our one great pilgrimage, the Con of Cons. Sure, we can sit around and debate whether or not to mass media takeover of SDCC is good or bad, but let’s be fair: you want to go. Although to be perfectly honest, a...
I wanted to love this, I really did. But it just didn't do it for me.The story was just too short for me to feel anything for any of the characters. In fact, I didn't really get a grip on who most of them were. In a novella of this length, I think Grant would have done better to focus on just a few ...
Meh. More of the same from the Newsflesh universe. Much as I love the novels, there was nothing new in this. All the faults of the longer stories - the overblown rhetoric and formulaic approach in particular - are emphasised in this short story format. [b:Countdown|11509894|Countdown (Newsflesh Tril...
This novella is a solid entry in the Newsflesh series. It gives a great backstory and some context to the Rising during the very early days. And I love that it's set during Comi-Con.