Review: Great prequel to the Newsflesh trilogy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2011
Mira Grant aka Seanan McGuire has become one of my favorite authors - and the zombie genre has NEVER been at the top of my reading list.  But Grant is such a stunning writer that the first two books in her Newsflesh trilogy -FeedandDeadline- have become two of my favorite books EVER any genre.  And I can hardly wait until "Blackout," the final book in the trilogy is out in May 2012."Countdown" was just what I thought it was going to be - a prequel to the first two books.  It goes into much more detail on the WHYS and HOWS of the pandemic that started the zombie apocalypse.  It takes place in the year 2014, so no, Georgia and/or Shaun Mason, the protagonists of the trilogy do not play a role in it (the trilogy starts in the year 2039).  The writing was top notch.  Grant really has a gift for making the science understandable.While you could read this novella first, it is probably a good idea to read it after "Feed" and "Deadline" so you get the full impact.