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alobearDeadline by Mira Grant is the second in the Newsflesh trilogy. While ostensibly a story about the zombie apocalypse, the first in the series is actually more about political reporting than anything else, and the second is a study of grief-induced obsession and insanity.
I listened to the first, and actually read the second (as the audiobook wasn't available - and it was just as compelling in text as on audio. The narrator switches from Georgia Mason in the first book to her brother Shaun in the second, and I really liked the different tone and insight. The plot zips along at a nice clip, and the story treads a balanced line, with enough real danger and tragedy to make the threats seem real, but not so much as to make it too depressing.
People die and there are consequences for those who are left, which I like, and the overall arc plot is interesting enough that I'm really looking forward to the conclusion in book three.
So much better than the October Daye series written by the same author under a different pseudonym.
I listened to the first, and actually read the second (as the audiobook wasn't available - and it was just as compelling in text as on audio. The narrator switches from Georgia Mason in the first book to her brother Shaun in the second, and I really liked the different tone and insight. The plot zips along at a nice clip, and the story treads a balanced line, with enough real danger and tragedy to make the threats seem real, but not so much as to make it too depressing.
People die and there are consequences for those who are left, which I like, and the overall arc plot is interesting enough that I'm really looking forward to the conclusion in book three.
So much better than the October Daye series written by the same author under a different pseudonym.
