Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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It's time for a little...FEEDBACK.

Feedback, by Mira Grant (me) is now available from fine bookstores and e-retailers in North America and the United Kingdom! This standalone entry in the Newsflesh world follows a new blogging team through a new adventure...and a very familiar period in time. Feedback begins the day Feed begins; it ends the day Feed ends.

It's everything in the middle that's new.

So come. Meet Ash, our Irwin narrator and Irish immigrant. Meet Ben, her Newsie companion and husband-on-paper, who's seen a less privileged side of the post-Rising world. Meet Audrey, Fictional, artist, and girlfriend, who's getting a little tired of waiting for Ash to get her life together. Meet Mat, makeup and maker blogger. Meet a lot of people, and find out how many of them will walk away.

Because Feedback provides a new angle on the original trilogy, I do not recommend picking it up until you've read Feed at the minimum, and hopefully Deadline and Blackout as well. But I hope you'll come to my party. I have so many stories to tell you.

This will serve as your discussion post; expect spoilers in the comments.
Tags: discussion post, feedback, mira grant, pandemic time, zombies
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torrilin

October 12 2016, 02:13:24 UTC 9 months ago

I read this utterly backwards from how you meant I think. Feedback first, then the rest of the universe, the shorter stuff in Rise first (but skipping the day the dead came to show and tell because it was late at night and I had a bad feeling). Then the rest of the novels, then circling back for the rest of Foxy's story. The warning level you used on her story was juuuuuuuuuuuuuust right. I'm glad I read it, but also glad the warnings were that damn clear.

I've bounced off Feed before a couple times, but after Feedback it works. I love Ash's POV and I could cheerfully have about 6 more books of her. She's easier for me to get on with than George, not because she's better or nicer but her world view is a better match for mine. It's probably the residual Catholic, I swear nothing gets rid of it. You did a really good job showing her argument with the Church without making it feel like the only one. And the sundresses and resolute certainty that nobody is gonna see Ash's undies without permission. Very very very relatable.

I'm also really liking how the world building gets more solid as I read more, not less. I have about a zillion questions about Kellis-Amberlee transmission (wait, hot air hand dryers DON'T spread it? Wha?) and a few zillion more about agriculture, life with animals, food processing and food shipping. Teacup bulldogs? Bulldogs are 40-50 lbs, breeding to get 'en under the threshold should be a piece of cake? (You don't have to answer, I'm pretty sure these are all spoilery or ought to be and every time I ran into an answer via story I liked the story better than a pat answer)