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Oh wow, how I loved the book!!

Oh wow, how I hated that the beginning of Blackout was in there!

I've read almost all the comments, and I must've been the only person on earth to have the reaction I did at Georgia waking up... my head went "Clone!"... then went, waaait... ... and I re-read, and re-read the chapter... ...and thought, "Ohhhhh SHAUN... you are so very crazy and broken."*

I would've liked to have kept that feeling/arguement longer! .laughs.

Minor qualms, of course, but whatever...
--Rick is nowhere to be found? They can't get through? Call the first-lady, call Maggie's parents and have THEM call, I get not pulling anyone else in, but just making a true effort to get in touch other than the switchboard? (Also, Rick is a Newsie, he has to have SOME fail-safe email drop or some-such thing... surely surely he would!)

--Holy crap, there must be some anti-evil-CDC sector, or the President did it, or SOMETHING... because of all the people to clone Georgia Mason doesn't seem like it'd be a very good idea!?

As a side note... my friend also read the books and is TOTALLY (and I mean WHOLEHEARTED) convienced that the cure has nothing at all to do with Shaun's close contact with George, and isn't something just inherent to him own body... nope, it's some ingredient in Avon Skin-So-Soft, since you pointed out so much that they slathered it all over themselves everywhere. She also thinks you've gotten goodsized cash for product placement, which I am cracking up over even as I write this. (Though if you did, would, or could, AWESOME.)*

*hey it made kinda sense at the time, he went from hearing her in his head and talking to her, and then seeing her... and... being NOT turned into a zombie could've just pushed him really REALLY 'round the bend
*though now I'm cracking up over the idea of an Avon/Newsflesh/zombie promo... somehow I don't know if Avon would exactly hop on that train..?

.laughs. .bows.
From reading the comments, I guess I was really seeing something that even the hint of wasn't SUPPOSED to be there. Looks like I'm the only one in the world that DID go to that place.

I keep telling myself this is because everyone else went straight onto the first chapter and didn't think "twist"... but I'm thinking it is because I am just weird. :)

Awesome book!!! You've a loyal readership growing!

Rick cannot be found? Really? Oh, that is sooooo ominous.

Ha! This was honest to God my first thought, too. That Shaun had finally had psychotic break of the century, woken up in some kind of psych ward and genuinely believed he was George. I was like, "OK, Blackout is going to be... interesting."

I think it says something for the awesome levels of weirdness in this series that I then read the first Blackout chapter and went, with some relief, "Oh, right, cloning. That makes way more sense." :-D

I also wondered if Shaun had decided he was Georgia. I hadn't ruled that in or out, ditto the clone explanation.

Mind, I played a character in a larp once who cross dressed well enough to be mistaken for a woman and had decided he was sort of his dead wife, or, more accurately, that they were together in one flesh. The GM explained that a part of the natural grieving process for some men was to put on their dead wife's clothing, usually underneath their own, feeling that this made them closer. This, he explained, was not considered especially a dangerous sign, but my character had taken it, er, well, a lot further.

So, yeah, Shaun deciding he was Georgia? Not out of the question.