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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Frotee

October 19 2016, 06:30:01 UTC 8 months ago

Finally finished Feedback.

I loved the team - not only because yay! Diversity!, but because they're a great mixture of characters.
I loved the world-building - or rather, the different angles we got for the world Newsflash takes place in.
I loved that we got some more glances at faces that we have already seen in the trilogy and in Rise - like getting to know who that asshole Clive was.
I also loved getting another look at congresswoman Wagman, because she seems like a particularly interesting kind of politician - and a strong and interesting person.

The story did not keep me glued to the page the way Feed did though - I guess part of that was because I already knew where it would end, and that this team would not publsih anything grundbraking about the overall CDC plot.
I did fine up until the point were our team became a ... less active player in that whole mess. I completely understand their decision though - it makes much more sense to me than Georgias stubborn hunt for the truth.
I felt a little weird about said truth and team Georgia's fight for it once Ash's team learned what they did - because I knew they wouldn't get it out. Almost disappointed.
As I said, weird.

All in all, I'd probably give the book a 3 star review on amazon, because I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the other ones. I am personally very fond of 3 star reviews, because they tend to give me an honest and balanced look at stuff between all those 5 star 'OMG this is the best you have to buy this!' and 1-2 star 'Thise is utter crap and whoever likes this is stupid' reviews.

shanejayell

October 19 2016, 14:38:21 UTC 8 months ago

Agreed, i was kinda... 'What.' when they cut and run. Perfectly understandable, mind you. Country wide maybe GLOBAL conspiracy vs 3 people, I'd run too. But it was a bit off too.