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Jan 01, 2012

Kemper rated it:

When I reviewed the previous book, Feed, I noted that that there were very few zombie attacks in it despite it being called a zombie book. Compared to Deadline, that one now looks like The Night of the Living Dead.

There’s an opening chapter here with our intrepid heroes escaping a pack of zombies that ends on page 18. We don’t get another actual zombie encounter until over 500 PAGES later. Not that there aren’t zombies around. The characters flee a major city right before it ge More...

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Jun 04, 2011

Wendy Darling rated it:

This review does not contain spoilers for either FEED or DEADLINE. One year has passed since Shaun and Georgia Mason found more than they bargained for as they investigated the truth behind the Kellis-Amberlee virus, a mutated cure for human disease that led to the uprising of the dead. The events that transpired then have an enormous impact now as the high-profile bloggers from After the End of Times uncover a conspiracy that is even bigger than they ever imagined. A CDC researcher fakes her ow More...

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Jul 20, 2011

Lucy rated it:

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Oct 31, 2011

karen rated it:

i have learned nothing from horror movies. i have fallen victim to the most elementary trap. never, ever think you are out of danger. never say things like "phew, i'm glad that didn't happen etc etc" i have said this.

<spoiler> so all the shit i said in my review for feed about how refreshing it was to have a relationship like george and shaun's, where they were so very close for a brother and sister, and NEARLY dangerously close but how glad i was that that line was n More...

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Nov 07, 2011

Penny rated it:

***Warning: this review contains spoilers for Feed***

I really don't know what I can say about this book besides how disappointed and frustrated it left me. Not that I was expecting something incredible mind you. I mean, it's not like Feed left me begging for more so I have no idea why I gave Deadline the time of day.

Actually I do know. ~~I'm not too bright.~~ I was going to purchase The Demon's Surrender on Tuesday June 14th, because that's when it was released, but for More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Maja rated it:

I am breathless, speechless and whateverless (probably mindless) at the moment. The best I can do is quote my favorite, if sometimes cowardly Newsie, Alaric Kwong:

"Son of a chicken-fucking soy farmer and a diseased convention-center security guard."

Now what?!?

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Aug 05, 2011

Catie rated it:

I am not even going to try to abstain from spoilering because I really need to get some things off my chest…but I pinky swear promise not to spoiler Deadline. If you haven’t read Feed, check out Wendy’s review which ingeniously omits any spoiler information.

<spoiler>This book left me feeling extremely conflicted. It brought me to tears not once, but twice! That’s 100% more crying than Feed, and twice as many times as I typically cry in any book. Only a select few have eve More...

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Jun 07, 2011

Katie(babs) rated it:

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Oct 29, 2011

Ari rated it:

Last Page Impression: Oh.My.God! Wow... I mean: WOW!!!!!!!

“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”

Damn, this book was insane!
I need a whole constellation lined up to rate it properly, because only 5 stars doesn't seem to make it justice.. I loved every single word of it.

Deadline is one of those books that you want to read slowly, to savor every phrase, every discovery, every nuance, every little m More...

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Jan 22, 2012

Corry rated it:

I quite liked Feed, the first book in this series. Sure, it had enough plot holes to drive an army of bulldozers through, but the voice was snappy and compelling, and George and Shaun were likable characters. So I was excited to read Deadline (book 2 in the Newsflesh series).

Deadline came equipped with the same voice as in Feed, but--maybe because I wasn't doped on Vicodin and woozy from getting dropped 20 feet to the ground by a climbing partner I (formerly) trusted--but the voice l More...

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Jun 06, 2011

Jean Pearl rated it:

Straight to the point: I ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY INCREDIBLY LOVE THIS BOOK TO DEATH! If you ask me, which is the better one of the two books of Newsflesh series so far, I won't go far to say this book is better. Believe me, both of them held the same awesomeness I come to really seek for an apocalyptic, sci-fi type of book such these two. Feed might have been pushed me to struggle a bit at first, but I tell you, the fruit of the labor is like the sweetest thing ever. Ironic, since I bawled so much at More...

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Jun 10, 2011

Jo rated it:

This review is relatively spoiler free.. but if you don't want to know ANYTHING about this or Feed... look away now.

Initial Thoughts.
WHAT IS WITH THE ENDINGS OF MIRA GRANT’S BOOKS? And, what was that? We have to wait for months until the next book comes out?! COME ON.

High points.
Shaun. (S)He’s hearing voices. Less of the technical jargon for simpletons like me. More zombie action. Things are rotten in the state of… um, America. Underground scientists. The Academy A More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Samantha rated it:

Deadline is the second book in the Newsflesh trilogy and keeps the hits coming after Feed while avoid avoiding all the standard pitfalls that trap many sequels. Grant keeps the story arcs twisting and blood pressure rising without ever allowing the book to become a mockery or unbelievable. The characters continue to be real and so strong that they pull the readers further into their story. I love the fact that the reader gains a deeper perspective on the plot while understanding that the third More...

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Dec 07, 2011

Angela rated it:

Warning: okay, this does end with a bit of a cliffhanger BUT the first chapter of the next book is also provided, so I don't really count it as a cliffhanger, because you're given enough information to answer your "what the hell!!??" moment.

I found that I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as I enjoyed the first. I'm not sure I can put my finger exactly on why, but I think it might be that this one felt more unfinished than the first. I definitely felt like I could read th More...

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Jun 22, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

Disclaimer - I actually think this book is closer to a 4.5. It was *almost* as wonderful as Feed. Don't get me wrong, I really, really loved it, but it just didn't match my experience with Feed, where I was literally sobbing at the end of the book. I'm a sucker for those.

And the ending - OMG. I still can't believe it. The writing was just as great and natural as in Feed, though I was just a little annoyed by the repeated use of the word "deadpan". Another small thing that b More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Qazyman rated it:

Mira Grant Deadline

Government Conspiracy, Viral outbreak, Social Commentary……Most writer’s use these as the backbone of a story, Mira Grant uses them as a stepping stone, from there taking reader to levels of interaction most writers only dream of.

This is an Author in full command of her trade.

This book doesn’t flow with the same efficiency as “Feed”, and main characters problems, because of the events of the first book, can’t be described as entertaining, but whe More...

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Dec 15, 2011

Miss Clark rated it:

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Jun 09, 2011

Nojh rated it:

DEADLINE is the sequel to FEED, the book about Politics, Blogging, and Zombies. DEADLINE is not about Politics, Blogging, and Zombies. It is about Conspiracies, Zombies, and Blogging. The second novel in a trilogy, DEADLINE once again introduces us to a post-apocalyptic future where humanity survives, in fear of, a zombie plague. Where FEED introduced us to the world and it's politics, giving us a glimpse into conspiracies that run a zombie infested America, DEADLINE jumps right into the conspir More...

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Oct 24, 2011

Kaia rated it:

Holt shit, you guys, this is so long I have to put the rest of it in the comments!

<spoiler>I have just...so much to say right now. Pretty much all of it not good. I've actually divided my review into separate sections in an effort to keep myself from rambling all over the place, because holy crap, there is so much to talk about. If you love this series and this book and you think it's like, BEST ZOMBIE BOOK EVAR and you think the world-building and research are so well done, yo More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Deb, the Word Muse rated it:

Cripes, it's a year before the next book... ::whimper::

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Dec 26, 2011

Shelby rated it:

This book--what can I even say about this book? It's just so...I'm at a loss. I feel numb. I'm still reeling over the ending cliffhanger, but seriously, the entire book was just great. I'd say it was definitely a step up from Feed--it's so close to perfect, although I technically am rating this a 4.5. So to keep this review as organized as possible, I'll divide the book into chunks. And I'll try to keep this book as spoiler free as possible, including the revelations made in Feed. But be warned, More...

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Aug 07, 2011

Nikita rated it:

I-
I'm not really sure on how to make a review of this one, or if I could. I don't think no amount of 'reviewing' would justify how ~~good~~ GREAT this book is.

Just..
Just READ IT!!!

~~Although I'm still contemplating if I would really make a review. I need more time to think. I'm utterly dumbfounded and speechless.~~

*deep breaths*
After roughly two weeks of brooding over this book, I was finally able to fix the short circuit in my brain which I had the More...

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Jun 03, 2011

Indigo rated it:

Oh, wow.

First things first: You do not need to have read FEED for DEADLINE to make sense, but you will have a richer experience if you do. I've read the first book four times, and I still wanted it close to hand for reference. The following review will keep spoiler free.

If you liked FEED for the worldbuilding, you will love DEADLINE for the same reason. If you liked FEED for the Mason sibs, they're back too, but not quite as they were in the first book.

I c More...

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Jun 05, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

Holy S#@!...

I could kiss Ms.Grant. If Feed was a "thinking" book, Deadline is a "feeling" book because i. felt. everything.

I don't really read thrillers; my record clearly shows my love for YA. I have a read a good many young contemps, a whole lot of PNR, and a lot of YA 'dystopian.' But Feed was one of my early favorites this year. It impressed upon me that the value of a story is not the genre it seems to fall under, but in the way the story is to More...

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Jun 03, 2011

Elena rated it:

4.5 stars. I nearly gave it five, but that would be like saying I loved it as much as Feed, and I didn't, not quite. It was slow to start, and the first nearly 300 pages were full of endless boring exposition<spoiler>, and I missed Georgia</spoiler>. However, the second half of the book more than makes up for the iffy beginning.

Now that the rating quibbles are out of the way, please forgive me for venting some emotion here using bad language: HOLY FUCK, MIRA GRANT.
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Aug 29, 2011

Laura rated it:

A worthy follow up to Feed. Even without Georgia this book had the same flow. Once again we have a zombie novel that is more smart than graphic or violent/bloody/horror. The spine of my copy does actually state that it is sci-fi though, so there you go. Things get very bad for our characters here. The conspiracy that began in Feed continues in Deadline but upon finishing Feed you are not aware that the conspiracy isn't completely unearthed yet so each book still stands independently. Which is a More...

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Jun 09, 2011

Lys/Mac rated it:

What do you MEAN I have to wait for another year for the end?!? AIEEEE!

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Aug 05, 2011

Brandi rated it:

This book made me mad. Consider me mad at the way it ended. It was so abrupt! I had to read it on my phone, and there are no page numbers so I'm reading along smack dab in the middle of the climax, when BAM! Its over. I liked Feed a lot better than this one too it seems. I'm confused by how close Shaun and George are, and I'm tired of how weak Shaun was in this book. Overall, I'm not nearly as impressed with this istallment, and I'm still just so annoyed at how suddenly it ended that I wi More...

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Jan 18, 2012

Kaitlyn rated it:

Okay, yeah, it's a zombie book. But it's (the second in a series of) zombie book(s) about journalists far enough from the date of the outbreak that human society has grown around the zombie phenomena, that we've shrugged and adjusted to the same way we've shrugged and adjusted to antibiotic-resistant flesh-eating bacteria. Light reading, a ton of fun, just like the first one.

Though, I gotta say this one focuses far more on the conspiracy that sort of lurked around the edges of the firs More...

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Jan 15, 2012

Justice rated it:

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