And rightly so, because this is not a book about zombies! Like any good fiction novel "speculative" is a novel about ourselves, our societies.
So instead of us imposing an nth zombie invasion, the author stands 20 years after this, and more organized society as we know it survived! It is therefore a novel about us, the non-humans infected with the zombie virus ... uh no, actually I'm wrong, everyone is contaminated, including animals, just your body resists infection, at least until the virus concentration crosses a certain threshold (eg zombie bite or contact with contaminated blood) or you die, in which case you will become a zombie "fresh", the most dangerous because faster.
The impact on society of this permanent threat, since the heart of each of us, is the atomization. Everyone is afraid of everyone and you do not gain a bit of confidence after a blood test to prove that you are not undergoing "conversion" fatal.
The blood test will be the leitmotif of this story, we find him almost every page and contribute to the oppressive atmosphere of this world.
Maximum things are now so remote and the author imagines a mutation in how to produce information for the benefit of informative blogs have benefited from the fact that they were the first to spread the news of the phenomenon zombie and provide recipes for survival while the mainstream media mocked this madness.
The novel offers us to follow three young bloggers-journalists from being accredited to the most promising candidate for President of the United States. This is Georgia, Shaun (from the movie Shaun of the Dead [Blu-ray]) and Buffy. Georgia and Shaun Mason are adoptive brother and sister in a rather dysfunctional family, a constant theme throughout the book the way that have their parents to live only for the media attention.
In a way this is also as our three journalists live-blog, but at least they do not have multiple personae, they have only one but it is public.
Shaun is the hothead of the team, the one that goes to the front, which flirts with death, who lives his passion for the cameras, Buffy, she writes poetry and manages the entire IT infrastructure / security of their blog while Georgia is the reference, which brings credibility to all by his integrity.
The presidential campaign of fear that future remains a moment of encounter, discussion and meeting face to face. These three blog-journalists of the year 2040 so will leave with the caravan of candidate Sen. Peter Wymaneste to meet the United Uniens, generating the same time number of occasions to assassinate him. And believe me, the use of zombies to kill someone is terrifying ... it looks like a nuclear reaction, zombies bite people who become zombies who bite people who hesitate to shoot them by what there ten minutes it was THEIR BEST BUDDY!
Political thriller, horror novel metaphor for control of a corporation by fear, all in a science fiction context damn good, one might expect that the characters are sacrificed. Well no, even if the heroes of these future time may appear that we are more crazy, their power is undeniable and it is even surprising to love the strange Georgia. Also this novel has regularly blog extracts remarkably trussed my faith.
All is not perfect, of course, the persistence of human zombies in non-populated areas is not possible as the ineffectiveness of medical research outside the United States (classical alas ...) but the pace the book actually secondary defects however may threaten thereafter.
Note that the author writes under a pseudonym and rages elsewhere under the name Seanan McGuire.
Read American.
