I grew to really enjoy some of the side characters as well, though it was clear to me who was up to no good before their big reveals. Adopted brother and sister, Georgia and Shaun, hold the entire story together with their bond. The ultimate strength of this novel is in the characters. I am so happy that I finished it my second time through, though I have to admit that my motivation to do so was increased by 1) the fact that I was reading with a friend and 2) several of my Goodreads friends sing this book's praises. At others, someone had tied concrete blocks to my feet and I was running in quicksand. At points, I felt like I was running around an empty track. There are several sections of Feed that really slow down the pacing. I attempted to read a library copy in December and I just couldn't make it through. This book was a real roller coaster for me. Danger, deceit, and betrayal lurk around every corner, as does the hardest question of them all: Set twenty years after the Rising, the Newsflesh trilogy follows a team of bloggers, led by Georgia and Shaun Mason, as they search for the brutal truths behind the infection. The mainstream media fell, Internet news acquired an undeniable new legitimacy, and the CDC rose to a new level of power. Even then, the world was changed forever. The summer of 2014 was dubbed 'The Rising,' and only the lessons learned from a thousand zombie movies allowed mankind to survive. Millions died in the chaos that followed. It stopped a thousand cold and flu viruses in their tracks. Alexander Kellis, intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and a cancer-killing strain of Marburg, known as 'Marburg Amberlee'-escaped the lab and combined to form a single airborne pathogen that swept around the world in a matter of days. In 2014, two experimental viruses-a genetically engineered flu strain designed by Dr.

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