The world has really changed ...

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For once, the horror is not in horror but in its consequences.
Following an unfortunate virus mixture, all mankind has been contaminated by a disease: each person at the time of his death, is transformed into a zombie. This transformation can also awful, very exceptionally, be spontaneously or systematically during infection (or rather superinfection) by a zombie.
That's the basics. The zombies are out, and living in it. The zombies have no longer any conscience, they form a traveling viral reservoir, "seeking" - as any pathogen - contaminate the greatest possible body.

This book offers no description "gore", the horror is in this new humanity, where man is a wolf (zombie) to humans (the zombie). The upheaval date of a quarter of a century, so there has clearly two generations, those before and those after.

This database is particularly well exploited, the author has created a believable world, with all its new organization (work, school, leisure, etc.), breathtaking constraints (repeated blood tests - starting to go in his own house!), the political-religious excesses. The new generation is really weird, with young people who live their relations almost exclusively through the internet, an agoraphobic kind (the crowd starting from three if he is not close) and an irrepressible desire to "scrub" the zombies for a few hotheads.

The main characters are journalists of a new kind, expressed through their blogs. Georgia and Shawn are brother and sister, united like the fingers of the hand in a disturbed family. Their talent is noticed and, with Buffy, a friend-colleague, they become the lucky few who will follow and will cover the presidential campaign of one of the title contenders.

The atmosphere of this world is exceptionally successful. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, humanity seems to have given happiness. Besides, only the pursuit of Truth pushes Georgia, the main character of this book.
Another highlight is the ambivalence of the characters; some are obvious, frozen in the role assigned to them at first, but the trio of young people is more difficult to define. The ambiguity of feelings that bind Georgia and his brother, who seem to have refused passage to adulthood to stay together forever, we finally convinced a strong bond, indestructible.

Which prevented me to put 5 stars is neither history nor the atmosphere, but the style of writing.
Rehearsals are many, and if those relating to the discomfort of multiple blood tests and those of Georgia disability (she suffers from ocular abnormality linked to the presence of the virus dormant) have not embarrassed me - because they contribute significantly to the underlying tension - those arising from technical manipulations have bothered me. My reading is found and sometimes considerably slowed. These details seem to me very useless in their repetition: if it is natural to insist on physical sensations that one does not get used as migraines or blood sampling (not counting the constant fear of seeing the test will be positive), detailing each time daily automatic gestures and does nothing, or the story, or the atmosphere.

A sequel to this book exist, an error in my opinion. The rigging wire is thin, and the climax that closes this book should really close the ...
However, it is a read that I recommend to all lovers of post-apocalyptic worlds, because the basic idea is exploited very well, both in the details of the new life that was organized (despite some minor inconsistencies) that in the psychological impact on humanity.