Book number 537 of my Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Project
Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire, what were your parents like? I have to wonder, after the depiction of Shaun and Georgia’s adoptive parents, the Masons, in this trilogy plus the many dysfunctional families in your Wayward Children series.
As zombie stories go, I like this series better than most. The science felt believable, like something that could actually happen. I suppose conspiracy theories are the bane of our times. Everyone seems to be suspicious of everything nowadays. I’m a little fatigued with those assumptions, for the record. The ironic part is that I’m pretty sure that, under the current American administration, I don’t trust anything coming from the CDC. It’s like reality has started to imitate fiction and not in a good way.
The biggest suspension of disbelief required in this third volume is Georgia Mason’s resurrection as Clone 7c. That was quite the bolus to swallow, but Grant managed to sell it to me. Once convinced, I was ready to roll with it, just as Shaun was. I was somewhat taken aback when the nature of Shaun and Georgia’s relationship emerged. (It reminded me strongly of Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series.)
I liked part of the ending a lot. Mahir is back in his very civilised UK, cuddling his sweet little daughter and threatening to turn his wife loose on persistent phone calls from journalists. Perfect for the foreign civilian on the Mason team. I was a little less happy with the assumption that everything in the United States was going to work out eventually and that the people in charge could be relied on. Grant shut down the novel quickly at that point, leaving readers to hope that it’s true. Someone recently told me that American readers demand that everything tie up in a neat bow at the end of a book or series. So perhaps it’s my non-Americanness that leads me to seeing many uncertainties in the final pages.
I admit to preferring the author’s Seanan McGuire books to her Mira Grant offerings. I’ll be heading back to October Daye now!
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