DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

Great, great book. I hoped the second book would really bring the journalistic zombie action, and it delivers (in that the characters spend most of their time trying to time the release of the leaked secrets they've obtained and interviewing people who might (spoiler: do in fact) want to have them killed).

Only a few things broke the flow of the reading: A few mis-edited jokes, which is a huge nitpick (only sticks in my mind because the rest flows so well). And after the scene where Shawn sleeps with Becks, it wasn't clear when, exactly, he realizes he called her by the wrong name (at least, wasn't clear to me; that was the only point where I turned back a few pages and reread some, and I still wasn't exactly sure).

I wasn't disturbed by the reveal of the exact nature of George and Shaun's relationship. I actually found that less disturbing than I did in Feed.

Speaking of George, best use of a character who's dead before the beginning of the book. Will Shaun get to interact with ghost-George and clone-George at the same time? (Oh please oh please.)

I do hope the CDC has some reasons for tampering with the virus more smart than "try to find something where reservoir conditions stop happening". Taking an incredibly dangerous airborne virus (that fortunately isn't airborne in it's super-deadly form) and mucking about with it at random seems uncharacteristically stupid for someone who knows as much about virology as the CDC. Of course, that makes more sense if they were intending to make the zombie plague worse...

Which reminds me, I was impressed at just how surprising you manage to make a zombie apocalypse in a book about the zombie apocalypse. It's just so well framed (in the minds of the characters, too) that the zombie apocalypse is something that happened in the past.