it takes place at a remove, as many years later mahir gowda, our beloved reporter, interviews lorelei tutt, the only survivor of the attack, who had been at the time a teenager sulking off to the hotel for a nap while her parents set up their booth with their friends, all of whom would become victims of the event in one way or another.

The problematic thing about this one is all to do with the structure. So this one is about 'what if zombies were locked into comic-con and did the things that zombies do?' and while i have never personally been to comic-con (MOCCA is about as much as i can handle), it sounds like she knows what she is talking about, and i definitely appreciated the little bits of detail that i understood, while acknowledging that i probably missed a lot of the references. i am always ready for more zombiestories from ms grant.

IT WAS THERE ALL ALOOOONG!Īnd although this one was in no way as satisfying as countdown, which actually contributed something vital to the newsflesh series, while this one is more of a 'what-if' writing exercise seemingly created just as a fan-gift by someone who knows her demographic, it is completely worth reading, because i cannot return to this world frequently enough. How do there keep being more of these? and they aren't even new, i am just only now discovering them, and it is like when you take your winter coat out of storage (or in my case 'flung behind the door that is really just for show because of all the stacks of books preventing it from opening) and finding twenty dollars in the pocket.

The rising the newsflesh trilogy