Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn’t seem as fun when you’ve lost as much as he has.
But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news—he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.
Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.
SPOILERS FOR FEED BELOW. SO MANY SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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Okay so at the end of Feed, our narrator and one of the main characters, Georgia, dies in a GUT WRENCHING ending that is shocking and tear-inducing.
Deadline is narrated by her brother, Sean. Sean has basically gone insane without George, hallucinates her constantly, and responds to everything with violence. It gets really old, really fast. He casually mentions punching staff members who question him talking to his dead sister in his head. He responds to everything with “Can I punch it?” It’s so frustrating because I KNOW Grant is a better writer then this!
The plot itself is fine. There’s yet another CDC conspiracy and they’re on the run while trying to get the truth out. But then comes the plot point I always hate.
MORE SPOILERS FOR DEADLINE AHEAD.
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George and Sean were adopted as kids and raised as siblings by their adopted parents, who sucked. They are not blood relatives. They were though, raised from childhood as siblings. They have also been in a sexual and romantic relationship for years. It’s the big secret.
I HATE this. I don’t care if they aren’t blood relatives! It’s still creepy that they were raised as family and started having sex! There are still so many creepy dynamics there! Plus, I loved their sibling bond. It was well done and fun! Now it’s just icky. The Westermarck effect still applies here! (The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before age six).
Feed was so good and then it just…turned into this incest-apology punch happy…thing. I had to force myself to finish reading this. Sean turned from a character I enjoyed to one I really really disliked. I question the loyalty and sanity of all of their employees who stuck by him. This entire book was such a disappointment.
