A disused part of himself that he'd let wither, because he gave it a name: Georgia. I liked the explanation - Shaun is just nuts but maybe, just maybe, there was a little possibility to see something more and I was willing to swallow that - but I loved the psychological justification, the way that Georgia's presence in Shaun's mind was revealed as a side of his character that he'd suppressed, a consequence of his co-dependency, maybe even an aid to character growth. In BLACKOUT, Mira Grant explains it in a way that I found really satisfying. I'd been really uncomfortable with the idea that Shaun communicating with Georgia by magic, and I couldn't figure out how else he could be having such lucid conversations with her. The coolest thing about it? The way that Shaun's behavior in this book cleared up the issues I'd had with DEADLINE. I loved seeing the rest of the crew react to her reappearance. They run into trouble on the way, and eventually - thanks to an extremely bizarre coincidence that needed a lot more explaining than we actually got - meet up with Georgia. Meanwhile the After the End Times crew hits the road, with Shaun on his way to Florida to save Alaric's little sister from the mosquito-ridden hazard zone the state has become.

Georgia's struggle with her own identity - she's not actually Georgia Mason just a very close copy - was perfect. And all the chapters recounting her captivity at the CDC facility are beyond chilling. We see Georgia again! She's narrating chapters! Man, it was great to have her back. Eventually, we have a winner and a loser.Īnd I thought the first half of the book was pretty awesome. The After the End Times crew makes progress. The CDC is strongly motivated to prevent that from happening. They want to end the conspiracy by making it public, making it news. And in a general sense, the plot here hangs together pretty well: the After the End Times crew has discovered that the CDC is at the center of a massive, evil conspiracy. And it makes sense that once an organization has chosen a direction that requires a lot of lying and secrecy, it will foster a pretty toxic environment where the wrong sort of people will thrive. I can see a 'cold calculation' (to use Mira Grant's phrase) there, where the CDC believes their way will save more lives in the long run. They see the inevitable result - 'Maybe this person can recover from amplification, maybe I shouldn't shoot them in the head, oops, now I'm a zombie too!' - and it is awful. They can't afford a partial cure of Kellis-Amberlee. Now, I actually follow the logic that led the CDC to their state of villainy pretty well.

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