TITLE: Deadline
AUTHOR: Mira Grant
STARTED: June 22, 2011
FINISHED: July 9, 2011
PAGES: 624
GENRE: Fiction
FIRST SENTENCE: I got another interview request yesterday from some brand-new baby blogger who's looking for a scoop and wants to know how I'm "coping."
SUMMARY: [From Amazon.com
] Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.
Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.
THOUGHTS: Oh this book ended in such a way as to drive me insane. That is to say CLIFFHANGER OF AWESOME PROPORTIONS! I cannot wait for the third book in this series to be release. 2012 why are you so far away?
The second book of the series picks up pretty soon after the end of the first. The characters (those who aren't dead) carry over into Deadline. So do the plot developments, discoveries, and (of course) the zombies. Much like the first book, this one feels just a real. There were a few scenes and plot developments that felt a little forced, but not enough to make me dislike the book as a whole.
In fact, there is one thing Deadline did way better than Feed: dramatic tension. In one instance, there were two chapters where nothing happens. It's eerie. You could feel the unease oozing off the page. Nothing happens and you're stuck waiting with the characters to figure out what just occurred. For those chapters alone, I would read this series again.
And, gah!, the ending. It was so unexpected that I actually shout out loud... and I was a passenger in a car... thank goodness The Boyfriend did not drive off the road.
RATING: 8/10
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