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Parasite- Interesting concept, slow execution

Parasite by Mira Grant

April 5, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite – a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system – even secretes designer drugs. It’s been successful beyond the scientists’ wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Mira Grant

NatteringwPride's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Mira Grant ·
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Blackout- The final book in this slog

Blackout by Mira Grant

April 5, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising. The year was 2039. The world didn’t end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. They uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made. Now, the year is 2041, and the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Mira Grant

NatteringwPride's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Mira Grant ·
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Deadline- And the decline begins

Deadline by Mira Grant

April 5, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn’t seem as fun when you’ve lost as much as he has. But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news—he may have put down the monster who attacked […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Mira Grant

NatteringwPride's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Mira Grant ·
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Feed- The unfortunately best book of a trilogy

Rise by Mira Grant

April 5, 2023 by NatteringwPride 2 Comments

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.   Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them. Backstory: Mira Grant is a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Mira Grant

NatteringwPride's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Mira Grant ·
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The zombie apocalypse will be televised

Blackout (Newsflesh #3) by Mira Grant

July 15, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

The final part of the Newsflesh trilogy is a fitting end, even if it didn’t quite hit the exciting heights of the series opener. It’s going to be really hard to review this one without dropping a couple of major spoilers for this and the previous books, so if you haven’t already read them, click away now… SPOILERS BELOW… We rejoin the surviving members of our team with them in hiding with the doc, catching her live zombies for her to experiment with and exposing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Fiction, Mira Grant, zombies

TheShitWizard's CBR11 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Dystopian, Fiction, Mira Grant, zombies ·
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Why settle for just one apocalypse when you can have two?

Deadline (Newsflesh, No 2) by Mira Grant

June 12, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Warning: Spoilers for Feed, the first book in the Newsflesh series are below. Click away now if you haven’t read it. The aftermath of the events of Feed have really done a number on Shaun Mason. Shooting your beloved sister as she turns into a zombie will do that to you. It’ll also have her setting up shop in your head for you to talk aloud to, lending credence to the popular theory that you’ve well and truly lost your marbles. But what Shaun hasn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, dystopia, Fiction, Mira Grant, zombie

TheShitWizard's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, dystopia, Fiction, Mira Grant, zombie ·
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