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Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 06-08-2011
I'm trying to stay away from Zombie fiction, which isn't that hard, but 'Feed' got a Hugo nomination.
This book has an interesting premise. It's twenty years after the zombie virus outbreak. How does society deal with the ongoing Zombie menace? The story follows three bloggers who are on the presidential campaign trail. It's a very interesting novel about the politics of zombies and fear. Yes, there are zombie attacks, but that's not all it is. There is murder and intrigue and sabotage and talks about making videos which always get's my attention. It's almost like there is a little cyberpunk dashed in with the mayhem. It's quite the melange.
I liked this book quite a bit and can't wait to read the second of the proposed four books. Only two are in print at this time.
Re: Feed by MIra Grant - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 06-10-2011
I also liked it. Mira Grant is the pen-name for Seanan McGuire (and she also illustrates; I'm thinking someone may be a bit hyper in real life...) a local writer who has one of the better "Kingdom of Faerie Still Abides in the Modern World" series. Bay Area locales help, too.
Re: Feed by MIra Grant - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 06-10-2011
I did like the Bay Area locales, too. I'm currently reading 'Deadline' and do have the first book in her urban fantasy series.
Deadline - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 06-13-2011
I have now read the second book and it seems the first one is much better. The first book has the skeleton of the Presidential campaign to hang it's structure on. The second book seemed to just be rushing around the United States looking for answers about the big conspiracy. But like all second acts nothing much transpires. You do have a few more answers at the end of the book than you did at the beginning, but the story seems to still be in the same place of "What are you going to do about it?" And as for the big coda ending? I saw it coming from miles away.
I think the main problem was that all Shaun Mason did was moan about how bad his life was. You never saw him getting beyond it. It was a lot of woe is me.
But I still like this world. I still like the depiction of the zombies and the problem with dealing with them. The coda will help spur on the next book because it has what was missing in the middle book. See? I am spoiler free. I'll be back in a year when the final book comes out.
Re: Feed by MIra Grant - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-04-2011
Just finished reading her three most recent October Daye series. I like these a lot. Good urban fantasy and set all around the bay area. You want entertaining, here it is.
Seanan McGuire Round Up - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 05-28-2013
Okay, Seanan McGuire can't stop writing. This year she was up for five Hugo awards.
Discount Armageddon and it's sequel Midnight Blue light special tells the tale of Verity Price and her dealings with monsters as she struggles to be a ballroom dancer in New York City. The books are fun if a bit frilly. The first book is about the quest to find a dragon under New York. The second is about the arrival of the Covenant in New York. The Covenant are the arch enemies of Verity and the Price family.
I enjoyed the books because the Yeti appears in it under the guise of Ista, a waheela. Ista's main aim it to participate in whatever carnage and mayhem is about to occur. I'm also fond of the talking Aeslin Mice who revere Verity as a living god and spend their days in religious observance of her existence.
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 06-02-2013
I like her "October Daye" series quite a bit. Her writing under the Mira Grant nom was OK, too. I put off the Verity books because I needed a break, but if they are fun, I guess I'll try to get them used.
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 06-02-2013
If only someone had copies they could send you . . . .
October Daye/Seanen McGuire - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 09-05-2013
Ms. McGuire is a local author who turns out enough work that I'm pretty sure she is a hive-creature that never sleeps. She is also known as Mira Grant.
Her urban fantasy "October Daye" series is an urban fantasy set in San Francisco and environs. Faerie and mundane worlds overlay and interact, lots of politics and violence. Each one basically a murder mystery with a large story ark to contain everything. She writes with humor and good pacing. Playing "spot the neighborhood" is fun, too. Her latest has a scene in the sci-fi/fantasy bookstore on Valencia St which is amusing. Attending the book signing at that store might see some sort of quantum temporal feedback loop.
Light and fun.
Seanan McGuire Round-Up - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 09-05-2013
I've moved all the various Seanan McGuire/ Mira Grant posts into one little spot.
I just received the new October Daye book. I'm glad they keep putting them out in paperbacks. She was just nominated for 5 Hugos, winning one. She is hyper busy. Not only does she have these three series going, she has an online series of short stories called Velveteen vs about Super Heroes. She also produces records.
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - The Queen - 09-05-2013
Reading the current October Daye. Looking up Mira Grant... Crossing my fingers that an will suddenly have a new treasure trove of books to look forward to!
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 08-05-2014
Just blitzed the 3 "Cryptid" novels (the Price family and their friends). Very enjoyable, very light. She has a new Toby Daye book due out shortly.
The bookstore that gets all of my biz for the last umpteen years is called Borderlands and is run by a friend of mine that I have known for a number of years, not just as a bookseller. He also used to run a motocycle shop in the alley across from AFS back in the day. Seanan McGuire has put the store in the last Toby Daye book, and apparently her book signings there are a bit of a circus. I may just have to try to go to one to see.
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-06-2014
You do know all the Mira Grant books are on the headboard, right?
Re: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 08-06-2014
A lotta good that does me. I already went through her "Mira Grant" zombie books. In fact, I think I'm current on all of her "actual in paper format" stuff.
Thanks, though! I just started Locke LaMorra #3. Already sucked in, looking for extra reading time.
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-21-2014
So, when she isn't writing the October Daye series or the Mira Grant books, she spends a lot of time writing short stories, which she releases online. I read her Velveteen vs series which is about a female super hero.
I'm thinking this book is a collection of Ghost stories she wrote all centered around the Phantom Prom date of Urban legend, an urban legend I had never heard of.
One of the shortcomings of this book, although well written, is that every short story has to reintroduce the character of Rose and her back story. So, at the beginning of each chapter there is a couple of pages about Rose and who she is and what she does. It varies. But it is all the same information.
I do like the world building. I do like her take on urban myths. But it all comes across as bit the same. The character of Rose shares a lot with October and Velveteen, young adventuresome women with special powers. And they all seem to deal with similar issues.
No swords fights.