Narratively, what do you do with zombies once the visceral reveal has happened? There’s no suave temptation that drips from the pores of every non- Twilight vampire there’s no cunning intelligence there’s no eternal conflict between the animal and civilised, the id and the superego, epitomised by the werewolf or Jekyll and Hyde. Now, I don’t mean that in a survivalist sever-the-brain-stem kind of way. “What on earth do you do with zombies once you’ve got them?” Moreover, though, the biggest intrigue derived here (as it did with Brooks’ World War Z) from a single question: What was it that intrigued me? It’s hard to say: the cover was pretty cool I liked the ambiguity of the title referring to the appetite of the zombies and to the blogging news feeds that the book revolves around.
Zombies are the new vampires with World War Z hitting the cinemas and this book’s been kicking about in my ‘mildly intrigued’ sub-pile of my ‘to-be-read’ lists on my e-reader. So why have I been immersing myself in gore recently? The Passage and The Twelve by Justin Cronin and now Feed, book one of the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant. I like books and words I wear my heart on my sleeve.
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