Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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FEED spoiler party!

Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.

Game on!
Tags: feed, mira grant, zombies
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paradisacorbasi

May 11 2010, 18:33:57 UTC 7 years ago

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.

galahadgirl

May 11 2010, 19:16:27 UTC 7 years ago

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.

seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 19:20:46 UTC 7 years ago

One of my proofers was like "Seanan, do not break up the dramatic scene with mosquitoes unless they're bionic death mosquitoes." Two pages later...

"HOLY CRAP BIONIC DEATH MOSQUITOES."

anindigomind

May 12 2010, 02:22:31 UTC 7 years ago

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.

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seanan_mcguire

May 14 2010, 04:55:37 UTC 7 years ago

I think it helps that Feed really is more science fiction than horror. It has a lot of horror tropes, but they wind up presented in a very science fiction way.

seanan_mcguire

May 14 2010, 04:54:39 UTC 7 years ago

Hey, if other people miss her as much as I do, I did it right.

hasufin

May 16 2010, 01:16:52 UTC 7 years ago

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."

seanan_mcguire

May 18 2010, 15:48:42 UTC 7 years ago

I had to. :(