SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Continuing on from our buddy read here, we are reading the 2nd in the Newsflesh series together.

This will be starting the week of 14th October so feel free to join us and check out our discussions.

i'm in!

Sweet, it got really awesome really fast didn't it?

Guys, I'm running behind on my buddy reads/bingo reads. I'll have to move this one next to a future bingo shelf. Hope thats alright.

Sounds good to me

Sure, Jeann!

This one's a re-read for me. And still edge of the seat; off with a bang and stays action-packed. And as frightening as rest of the series; not from horror or zombies, just from how very plausible everything becomes once you accept the zombie existence. And how just when you think it can't get any worse ... LOL ... love this series!

Under no circumstances should anyone skip ahead to the surprise endings (nope, not a tearjerker one like Feed...but...just do not jump ahead).

Yay thanks for letting us know your thoughts Debbie, feel free to post more so we can read as we go along.

I loved the first book, glad to hear the 2nd was good too.

I really don't like zombie books. And did not care for downloaded sample of this series but a lovely friend strongarmed me into reading first few chapters of Feed after so many, many recommendations on goodreads. Glad I was sucked in; sorry it was well before Blackout was published (was an agonizing wait).

Still not into horror genre zombie stuff and no interest in the zombie erotica releases I've been seeing (duh...decaying body parts, flesh eating or virus stuff sexy? Can't imagine).

I LOVE zombies, movies, games, comics, everything so it was natural that I loved Feed as well. I think fiction definitely adds another dimension to the zombie arena because you can get really creative and break conventions, just like how FEed has done.

I'll be ready to pick this up this month, any preferences guys?

I'm trying to fit it in bingo....

Good idea B, I'll do that too :)

Hey guys, this fits in with dark fantasy shelf this week, want to read it this week or another?

Gah!!! I just choose something else.....

Haha ok, I'll pick something else too. :)

It's fits with this week's 2012 shelf too. I'll be reading it this week!!

Ok B! I picked cos I have that buddy read on now. But let us know your thoughts and I'll let you know mine when I read :)

Just finished chapter 4 which sees the end of the info dump & the start of the action!!

So the end of chapter 9 - WOW!!! Just WOW!!!! Major spoiler:

(view spoiler)[ reservoir conditions such as Georgia's rentinal KA are immune responses that actually teach the body how the interact with the KA disease so that these people are actually IMMUNE.....Georgia would never have fully amplified! She would have got better.... (hide spoiler)]

omg I want to click on your spoiler but I shouldn't!!! I'm excited to read this now.

It's exciting. It's horrifying. It's page turning goodness....

Chapter 13 and the references to pre-rising computer games and the way this chapter is playing out is very resident evil....

*squeals* I love Resident Evil!!!

I can't play it at all! I suck!! But Bren loves it so I watch all the time. He's hanging for 6 to come out :P

Um......

(view spoiler)[ so becks and Shaun have sex and she says goodnight and he says goodnight to georgia.....maybe there was more to that brother/sister relationship in the first book..... (hide spoiler)]

Page 355

(view spoiler)[ so it IS TRUE!! Major EW!! Yes, that face: she is your sister! EW!! EW!! (hide spoiler)]

Quote:

'luckily, aleric was still swearing, finishing off an elaborate phrase that started in Cantonese and switched to English as he said, almost wonderingly " - son of a chicken-f$&@ing soy farmer and diseased convention-centre security guard"

*giggle snort!!* love it!! :P

Holy crap!! Somehow this better than the first! Impossible I know but it was! The conspiracy continues.....

(view spoiler)[ this time their up against the CDC. The government, who has by all designs weaponised KA to be passed on by insects (by the end of the book). We see shaun get bitten/scratched and he's immune.....then the last scene - georgia - ALIVE! I'm guessing the CDC cloned her, but to what purpose?? (hide spoiler)]

Straight onto book 3!!!!

Woah B, that's amazing! Aggh need to read it now lol

Did you read the spoilers???

Not yet, not until I read the book myself!

It's soooo tempting thou! I really struggled not to when I was catching up on the first one....

Lol B you really need to discuss it don't you ;)

Ah, sad I never got around to this as I absolutely loved the first book. Currently reading the prequel novella, Countdown which talks about how the 2 viruses broke out.