Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy: Book 3

A good solid 4 stars for both this closing chapter of the FEED Trilogy as well as the entire series! Very nice close out, well done! The awkwardness of the 'Deadline' is quickly overcome with a story that starts out running - if not at full speed, then certainly fast enough to dare the reader to try and keep up. While missing the same level of sheer gut-wrenching emotion of Book 1, 'Blackout' works on so many levels that it's more sedate sections can be easily overlooked and focus instead given to the twists and turns leading to the exciting if not ever so slightly predictable ending. Grant's back and forth style in 'Blackout' - one chapter told from the perspective of Shaun, whose immature short-comings are less cumbersome than in Book 2 and another told from Patient 7c (read it kids) - works extremely well. In addition, the final book brings back a much broader 'selection' of secondary characters with whom we can either easily sympathize or truly detest. It's all good in the end. In the end, certainly one of the better 'horror-suspense' series I've read to date. The fact that Grant has made this such an intriquing adventure of suspense and intrique while not necessarily relying on the books being JUST zombie apocalypse works is a big success to me. And as I mentioned with 'FEED', it's amazing as to how relevant and relatable this story is when weighed against some of the ways that governments and even other entities around the world - you can pick between religions, health organizations, heck, even your local horse fanciers club - are behaving today. And the best advice to all of that is the key message here as well: RISE UP! Aloha.

Blended science and fiction well. Moral thrust made interesting and as in all good zombie stories; always expect the unexpected!

This is one of the best books of the year :) it's brilliant :):):) I've ran out of words to describe it but here are two zombie penguin ---><(*o*)> <3 <(o_o)>