Steven C. (SteveTheDM) - , reviewed on 12/2/2011 + 204 more book reviews

Wow. I really loved reading this one. This is the story of a trio of young bloggers following a presidential candidate in the mid-21st century, in a world that has been unevenly overrun by zombies. That world has made for some serious changes in the way people live. Liberties have been curtailed in drastic fashion, crowds become extremely frightening, and network connectedness is crucial.

There was an abundance of literary action, along with a stab at how informal reportage and politics mix, and the increasing relevance of instant reporting of the blog crowd. The characters seemed deep to me, and they undergo significant change throughout the novel.

But one of the things that really struck me was how spot-on the envisioning of the mid-21st century was. Ive read a number of novels set a few decades in the future, and none of them feels as right as this one does. Maybe thats simply because Feed was written quite recently, and trends seem to have solidified a bit more than was obvious in the 90s, but still. Disregarding the whole zombie apocalypse issue, this really felt like the world that sits in our future and which Ill get to inhabit as an octogenarian. (Uploading my mind into the iCloud never appealed to me anyway.)

Im really looking forward to the next books in this trilogy!

5 of 5 stars.

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