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#59 Deadline by Mira Grant

Aug 22, 2011 12:47

The following review contains spoilers for Feed the first novel in the Newsflesh Trilogy. Spoilers are minimal for Deadline.

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mira grant, five stars, the newsflesh trilogy, year published: 2011, zombies, science fiction

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calico_reaction August 22 2011, 21:44:45 UTC

So glad you were able to get this review up!

And Feed didn't win the Hugo, which gets a big, fat, BOO!!! from me. :-/

temporaryworlds August 23 2011, 01:00:36 UTC

I know! I was shaking my fist at the screen when I saw.

calico_reaction August 23 2011, 02:23:47 UTC

It's not that the Willis books don't have merit, but I've read those two, and I've read her other award-winning work, and those two have a LOT of flaws, so despite what they have to offer, I still think they should've been more harshly edited. I worry that perhaps Willis may have won on name-recognition combined with nostalgia for her work, if that makes sense?

temporaryworlds August 23 2011, 02:38:13 UTC

It makes perfect sense. As much as I enjoy awards, I notice that nominations (and sometimes wins) based mostly on name recognition happen a lot. It's not so much that author X wrote a great book as much as author X is a great author who put out a good book this year.

Granted I can't really speak of Willis because I haven't read Blackout/All Clear, so I could be completely wrong with this one.

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