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review SPOILER ALERT! 2016-04-28 21:21
Everyone deserves better than this
Blackout - Mira Grant

I said about Deadline that Shaun deserves better. In here, it's all about Shaun and his pain and frankly, all of the After The End Times deserves better. Everyone else's pain was pushed aside and Georgia's journalistic guilt crisis seemed to come out of nowhere.

 

I didn't mind the—I meant it about the spoiler tag—incest revelation and I was kind of expecting it after Shaun said in his book that "sex hadn't been a thing in post-George world" (paraphrasing) or before that if we're honest. I did mind the throwaway line about George and Shaun getting DNA tests before to make sure, as if that'd make it okay. They're still breaking the taboo—as George acknowledges—but the only way their DNA matters is if they're planning on procreating. And neither of the adopted Masons strikes me the kind of a character interested in cribs or midnight feedings.

 

I minded missing the emotional beats in the character arcs and focusing on the governmental crisis that fell on its arse like a clown in a circus. Except with less practiced grace.

 

As for the narrators. Paula Christensen continued to be brilliant and Michael Goldstrom was not. Well, he wasn't bad but I liked Deadline's Chris Patton better and Goldstrom's voice just wasn't right for Shaun.

 

P.S. I was eyeing the Newsflesh novella: Countdown, but I'm not anymore.

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text SPOILER ALERT! 2016-04-25 20:50
Reading progress update: I've read 6%.
Blackout - Mira Grant

They really couldn't decide on the voice for Shaun, could they.

 

This guy, Michael Goldstrom, has the disadvantage of being the third and my least favourite to voice Shaun's narration, made only worse by that he shares the book with the brilliant Paula Christensen from Feed.

 

Oh, well. It was only a single Audible credit. It's not like I could've spent it on literally anything else.

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review 2016-04-22 20:52
Shaun of the Feed
Deadline - Mira Grant

Although everything could be explained with his grief over George's death—you know what I mean—it still felt too much like the author didn't really want to change the narrators. Like she hadn't really wanted to tell the story from Shaun's point of view but wished she'd could have kept using George's voice. Shaun was a rounded character in the first book, his own man with certain questionable attachments and characteristics, but here he felt like a shadow of George. And not just because he was grieving.

 

Of course the end twist explains why all this is, but you know what, I'd rather have skipped right to it, instead of suffer through an inferior installment. Shaun deserves better.

 

I didn't check the characterisation fail box on my shelf-list, but it was a close thing.

 

Narrators were good, so good in fact, that I had to double check the names to make sure they weren't the same people as in book one.

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review 2016-04-18 20:41
See, this is why...
Feed - Mira Grant

I really don't like alternating or multiple first person voices. That twist towards the end, will probably mean other things for other people, but for me it means the story should have ended there. Full stop.

 

Won't stop me from listening to Shaun's book, though.

 

P.S. Paula Christensen was a really good audio narrator.

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text 2016-04-16 18:38
Reading progress update: I've read 70%.
Feed - Mira Grant

I really like the narrators but just wish it hadn't been written in alternating first person voices. Even if the additionals are only short blog post inserts.

 

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