{"id":2091,"date":"2013-08-08T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2013-08-08T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:24:39","slug":"blackout-by-mira-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"blackout by mira grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the {{Newsflesh}} trilogy this week, which culminated in {{Mira Grant}}&#8217;s book {{Blackout}}.<\/p>\n<p>The basic storyline and character development continued apace, and the story does end admirably.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read the first two, you should finish the trilogy. This one adds human cloning as a core plot point, and does it well.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have a couple things to complain about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Grant upped the vulgarity in the last book over the second which was more than the first; most of the vulgarity seems like it was put in just because she could<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The relationship between the two primary characters gets, well, uncomfortable; debatable as to the morality of it, but suffice to say it could have been done without<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People you want offed don&#8217;t get it, people you want saved aren&#8217;t, and overall the character list changes in ways that would allow further writing in the Newsfleshiverse, but I doubt Grant will do any more therein. She didn&#8217;t approach the stories the way {{Tom Clancy}} did with his Ryanverse. It&#8217;s nice that you won&#8217;t feel compelled to read more of her writing if you really enjoyed these characters, but it&#8217;s sad, too, that she chose to only do a trilogy (though there\u00a0<em>is<\/em> an eBook-only prequel previewed at the end of Blackout).<\/p>\n<p>Trilogies seem the be\u00a0<em>de rigueur<\/em> in writing these days ({{The Hunger Games}}, Newsflesh, and many more come to mind). Personally, I&#8217;d prefer that an author write as much as they have to write that is a good story &#8211; if it&#8217;s one book, awesome (authors like {{Alistair MacLean}} and {{Michael Crichton}} come to mind); but if it&#8217;s multiple, then keep going as long as you have good stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Now that this series is over, looks like I need a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Next on my reading list is {{Germline}}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the {{Newsflesh}} trilogy this week, which culminated in {{Mira Grant}}&#8217;s book {{Blackout}}. The basic storyline and character development continued apace, and the story does end admirably. If you&#8217;ve read the first two, you should finish the trilogy. This one adds human cloning as a core plot point, and does it well. However, I &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2091\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">blackout by mira grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[177,662,869],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-review","tag-cloning","tag-scifi","tag-zombie"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}