Wow! It’s been forever and a day since we’ve done this segment, but I’ve found a new series that has knocked me for a loop and had to share it with everyone (and hopefully we’ll be doing this segment more often). So here is your Muggle Book of the Month for June… er… sort of.
In 2014, two experimental viruses—a genetically engineered flu strain designed by Dr. Alexander Kellis, intended to act as a cure for the common cold, and a cancer-killing strain of Marburg, known as “Marburg Amberlee”—escaped the lab and combined to form a single airborne pathogen that swept around the world in a matter of days. It cured cancer. It stopped a thousand cold and flu viruses in their tracks.
It raised the dead.
Millions died in the chaos that followed. The summer of 2014 was dubbed “The Rising,” and only the lessons learned from a thousand zombie movies allowed mankind to survive. Even then, the world was changed forever. The mainstream media fell, Internet news acquired an undeniable new legitimacy, and the CDC rose to a new level of power.
Set twenty years after the Rising, the Newsflesh trilogy follows a team of bloggers, led by Georgia and Shaun Mason, as they search for the brutal truths behind the infection. Danger, deceit, and betrayal lurk around every corner, as does the hardest question of them all:
When will you rise?
When Senator Peter Ryman of Wisconsin decides to take a team of bloggers along on his run for the White House, Georgia and Shaun Mason are quick to submit their application. They, along with their friend Georgette “Buffy” M. are selected, and view this as the chance to launch their careers to a whole new level…that is, if they can survive the campaign trail.
Called “a soul-shredding examination of what’s true and what’s reported” by Publisher’s Weekly, and selected as one of IO9′s top ten summer apocalypse reads, Feed follows the Masons and their crew into a world filled with the living dead—and the much more dangerous living. – Excerpt from the Mira Grant Official Site
