I definitely agree on killing off George and making it work.
It's what passed the book over from really good in my mind to brilliant, because it was a complete surprise, but it worked so well, and I had the context to care, a lot.
My flatmate's currently reading the book after listening to me rave about it for most of the last year. I'm a little afraid of how upset she's going to be at George's death, given that she asked me if it was upsetting, I said yes, she said that she didn't want to read it, I said okay, she said that it sounded good though, and now she's reading it. So we'll see how that works out.
One comment about Tate as a 2-dimensional bad guy... Grant (McGuire) has outright said that this is a trilogy, and points out pretty specifically in the book that Tate isn't the big bad. He's a tinpot villain, but there's someone pulling HIS strings, and the story isn't over yet.
I read it a long while back, but I think I was in the mood for a different sort of zombie book something more like Tim Curran's Resurrection. Best way I can describe is eating, say, pizza when you really want a burger.
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It's what passed the book over from really good in my mind to brilliant, because it was a complete surprise, but it worked so well, and I had the context to care, a lot.
My flatmate's currently reading the book after listening to me rave about it for most of the last year. I'm a little afraid of how upset she's going to be at George's death, given that she asked me if it was upsetting, I said yes, she said that she didn't want to read it, I said okay, she said that it sounded good though, and now she's reading it. So we'll see how that works out.
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But the worldbuilding and Georgia and her brother and yes! the protag death! were so fantastic that I happily forgive that flaw.
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