This series has been a hard sell to most people I recommend it to (which is everyone). It presents itself so strongly as a certain book and it's not. This book takes place after a zombie apocalypse but it's not about zombies. The main characters are reporters and a large portion of world building is devoted to how news media was restructured after the rising of the dead but it's not a media study. The position that sets the group off on their adventure is to follow a politician who is running to be the Republican presidential candidate but it's not a political thriller.
This is technically a hard sci-fi medical thriller. But it's not really that either.
What it really is, is amazing. There are two types of people I know.
- People I have recommended it to and have absolutely loved it.
- People I have recommended it to and they have not read it.
With complete sincerity I tell you that this book has a 100% "love it" rate by those who I pushed it on and have read it.
Our narrator is Georgia Mason, a sharp edged, hard as nails news blogger who sounds like equal parts Rick Grimes and Hunter S. Thompson. It's 25 years after the zombie uprising. People have survived and learned how to keep living. Everyone is infected. Everyone is scared. And life goes on. The news media was hesitant to admit zombies were real. Sounds too silly. But bloggers jumped on that story and kept people posted. And so bloggers have survived into the new world. Her group lands a prime job, following around Peter Ryman who's fighting for the Republican nominee spot. And then things get intense.
I'm specifically light on plot details because this book absolutely speaks for itself. The Magicians made me fall in love with reading again and this series places a spot above that book.
And when you're done with the trilogy and the two novellas (the prequel takes place at San Diego Comic Con in 2014) then head over to my friend Mark's blog, Mark Reads, and reread it along with his chapter-by-chapter reaction/reviews.
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