FEED spoiler party!

I didn't cry and bawl, but I did shout "NO!" loud enough to scare both my cats into leaping straight up in the air.

And yes, I love that poor Shaun's mind can't cope without Georgia, so it supplies her for him.

I'm a little sad that Tate did not get to SUFFER LIKE A WORM for what he did to the Rymans and to Georgia and Shaun.

I'm hoping that he had something on a computer or a notebook somewhere for Shaun (and Brain!George) to find next book.

But I think he was hoping to infect Ryman and all his supporters except that Shaun was standing right there.

Agreed. As soon as George mentioned feeling a bug bite her, I knew what had happened. I think my thought was, "But she's the main character!" I should have known with all the tension over each blood test that being the MC didn't make her safe. But I loved that scene anyway. Just the picture of Shaun, with his gun at the base of her neck, watching her write her last update, and the way she wrote out what she was feeling as she turned until all she could remember was his name and that he needed to shoot her...that was awesome writing.

I actually kind of liked that Shaun was able to just shoot Tate and get it over with rather than having to try to bring him to justice through normal channels or anything. Poetic as it would have been to watch him lose himself as the KA amplified in him system, better not to take the risk.

I don't think I'll be able to look at mosquitoes the same way again after reading that.

I realized what had happened right away, and there was a part of me that desperately hoped for some deus ex machina cure or that it really was a bug. The whole scene tore me up and I sobbed for the entire rest of the book. It was kind of hard to convince people that I really loved it when I was all puffy faced and teary.

I spent that scene cycling between "There's gonna be a cure or something, George isn't really gonna die, she's the main character." and "No, that'd be cheesy. She's really gonna do it."

Sadly, there's not a lot that could have been done to someone who's willing to zombify himself for his beliefs that would have made him suffer. Even pure physical torture wouldn't have gotten through his willingness to be a martyr for his cause.

I know that rationally.

But then there's the part of me that suggests outing him to the religious community and holding his eyes open constantly with live feeds of the Pope denouncing him and excommunicating him, and watching people leave the church that one of their own would do such a foul thing in God's name.