I'm never sure how much detail I should be putting into these blogs. I don't like giving away the juicy parts of the books as some of you might want to read them, so I decided some time ago, ok, about 3 minutes ago,(while I typed that last sentence, actually), anyway I decided that I would not worry about that, and I will leave it up to you Dear Reader, to research the book first to see if it might appeal to you, before you read my Blog. I have linked all the books in this Blog with the web site for easy access jut point and click. Try it, you never know where you might end up.
Oh ya, how did I score on my last Blog, did I get a passing grade?
At first glance Feed is all about zombies, when I received this book at Christmas LS was soooooo excited that she managed to get me a zombie book as a gift that she almost went straight out and bought the sequel to this trilogy, before finding out if I would even want to read the next one. But I don't think it would have been money poorly spent, so please remember (LS) that I have a birthday coming up.
The book's cover page gives one pause to reflect, "The good news, we survived. The bad news, so did they"
They would be the zombies. Some time in our near future say around 2014, we will have found the all elusive cure for the common cold, and lung cancer, woot, this is a good thing don't you think? Be careful what you with for, all that shines is not gold, old Chinese proverb say, Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also.
As science cured the cold and cancer, the human race replaced these with the ability to carry the zombie virus, named after the people who developed it, thinking that they had the ultimate cure, they also cursed every person from then on, we would turn into a Zombie when we died, or when we the living, (because zombies are not really living), when the living are bitten, or scratched, by an infected (zombie) person, they would be amplified, or converted into a zombie. None of us are exempt from amplification into the zombie form, we all will become that which will try to Feed off us. So stay out of public areas.
So with the news that everyone will eventually be converted or amplified, we as humans learn to adapt, we accept what we cannot change and learn to live life among the zombies. We surely do not want to come into contact with them, or allow them to get too close, so we barricade ourselves with fences, gates, walls, electronic surveillance systems to control entry and of course, we make up a whole bunch of laws and rules on how to deal with the infected.
After all, now that we have unwittingly created the dam virus, we can at least test you to see if the virus has begun to amplify within you, if it has not, and the flashing light turns green, we will open the door for you and let you in, however if the flashing light on the test unit turns red, well, I guess a bullet to the base of you're skull prevents you from coming in and infecting the rest of us, pretty much prevents you from doing anything else as well. Interesting note, apparently in the future you will die twice, once from the human state and the second from the zombie state, unless of course action is taken while you are in the throws of change.
Oh sure we will see what we can do to eliminate the virus, but so far 25 years of trying and no progress. I guess one could say, each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
The title FEED leads us to think that zombies are the main focus of this book, they are a fact of life in the future and become just another daily task to deal with, like parking tickets, if you park in the wrong spot you get a ticket. You know the rules so just follow them or pay the consequences. Except now the stakes are higher.
In the future the news is provided to the populous over the world wide web, by bloggers, yep, that's correct, blogging becomes big business and the quickest and easiest method to get the word out, without having to actually get near anyone, what you are reading now is just practice for the future. The book kinda remands me of the Bourn novels, where the main character is setup for failure (no, not a zombie), in FEED they struggle against the odds to solve the mystery and bring the truth to the people, while trying desperately to follow a presidential candidate to the White House.
FEED, as in feed the zombies, and, as in the media FEED into the net. This was a pretty good book, suspenseful at times, the ending came quickly, too quickly.
It's definitely more than a zombie book.
A Book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
bfn Brian
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