A political thriller than a horror book with zombies

I found reading "Feed" a bit odd:
- It's about zombies but in fact the story is anything but zombies.
- The pace is slow, wheezy view (I had much trouble in the breakthrough of the first quarter of the book), but suddenly becomes frantic.
- At times I found the lyrical playing and I had tears in my eyes, and other times I had the impression of reading and re-reading the same record "how to detect whether you have become a zombie in 10 seconds. "

In short, finishing reading I was not sure where to place the novel.

In fact it is a very clever book, taking as pretext the zombies to describe a post-apocalyptic society in search of landmarks. Usually when we talk about zombies is to talk about their emergence or to speak of the three gus who managed to survive in the 500 kilometers around. Here none of this: we speak of a society living with the zombies for dozens of years (!!!) and has preserved many charms of modern society, Coca drug, via the Internet.

In this society we will discover three youngsters in search of more or less strong feelings. Shaun (as the hero of Shaun of the Dead, his sister Georgia (in homage to George Romero, famous director of zombie films) and their associated and friend Buffy (as against the eponymous series Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete 7 seasons ) are three bloggers. In other words, what is more "hype" and more independent in a world heard that zombies existed through the Internet, rather than traditional newspapers.

Shaun the hothead, Georgia and the brains Buffy paranoia geekette are selected to follow the campaign of US presidential elections (here, here happens at the end of the first quarter pound, as saying that in the beginning it is only the descriptive!). We will discover with them how to manage elections so that voters are afraid of their shadows, unwilling to gather in groups, and when to checker 10 or more times per day the blood of every person approaching the presidential candidate in case the meantime he would have been contaminated by a zombie (which may be an animal). And we will also find out what happened to the political theses hottest, after 20 or 30 years of zombie infestation.

In the end, everything is black. Georgia and Shaun did not love their adoptive parents, and vice versa. They have no love life and live for one scoop of love, the other for the frisson of excitement when an encounter with a zombie looks (Shaun is a kind of Jackass revisited). They have no friends except Buffy. I must say that since everyone is hiding behind piles home alarm systems, human interactions are limited. They do not have either of pets since animals are potential zombies.

The election campaign will shake all this gloom. Shaun, Georgia and Buffy will discover a perfect candidate so that it becomes suspect, a candidate whose breast implants seem to be the only argument competitor and flirting with the extreme right. It began as a zombie book (= description of the first quarter pound) becomes a political thriller very well designed, with some moving passages through the cool hero. The zombies instead become levers to arouse emotion (how to gun down his best friend when suddenly discovers that he is in the process of zombiifier?) And questions on an ultra-secure society and its limitations.

In short, if you like zombies, you may be disappointed, but I recommend this reading to all lovers of political thriller with an anticipation point (courage once a quarter past book, it all really starts!).