book review: Blackout
Jul. 2nd, 2012 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraBlackout is the third and final book of Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy about zombies and the bloggers who blog them.
I got what I really wanted (George/Shaun shippiness) and didn't much care about the rest of it, so I was satisfied, but not in a way that makes me want to rec it to other people. Basically a Hollywood thriller with Hollywood-level plot coherency and science, except instead of stupid Hollywood characters we get George and Shaun. The science approached cringeworthy at points, which I mostly tried to ignore except when I really couldn't (it's a large virus, so... a normal mosquito couldn't carry it, they had to breed a bigger one? What? Even if it's several times larger than the largest known viruses, a mosquito is still, what, like ten thousand times bigger, this is like saying that, I don't know, you'd need to build a bigger city if fat people wanted to live in it. Mosquitoes spread various bacterial and protozoan diseases (malaria, for example), they're hardly going to have trouble with a big virus.). But the reunion was glorious, and I'm really hoping someone will write epilogue fic where Shaun sorts things out between his hallucinatory George and the real one (Canadian shack threesome!).
I got what I really wanted (George/Shaun shippiness) and didn't much care about the rest of it, so I was satisfied, but not in a way that makes me want to rec it to other people. Basically a Hollywood thriller with Hollywood-level plot coherency and science, except instead of stupid Hollywood characters we get George and Shaun. The science approached cringeworthy at points, which I mostly tried to ignore except when I really couldn't (it's a large virus, so... a normal mosquito couldn't carry it, they had to breed a bigger one? What? Even if it's several times larger than the largest known viruses, a mosquito is still, what, like ten thousand times bigger, this is like saying that, I don't know, you'd need to build a bigger city if fat people wanted to live in it. Mosquitoes spread various bacterial and protozoan diseases (malaria, for example), they're hardly going to have trouble with a big virus.). But the reunion was glorious, and I'm really hoping someone will write epilogue fic where Shaun sorts things out between his hallucinatory George and the real one (Canadian shack threesome!).
