"Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot--in this case, my brother Shaun--deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens." Feed, page one, by Mira Grant 
 The world-building of Feed was pretty fabulous. High Five to Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire. She did her research and it totally showed. 
 The premise of Feed: 25 years in the past, the cure for cancer warped the mass-distributed cure for the common cold, together they jumbled up to make a new strain of virus. This virus, Kellis-Amberlee, infected everyone on the planet. So no more cancer and no more common cold, but get enough of the virus into your system and it goes 'live' and you turn into a flesh munching zombie. If you happen die, as we all will eventually, the virus warps your dead flesh into a different type of life and your body goes on a permanent flesh-eating bender. 
 When the outbreak happened, the resulting chaos wasn't accurately reported by the News. So people went online and blogged the truth. Warning the world and letting them know how they survived in their personal encounters. This eventually created a more respected blogging community and now it's where the world goes to for honest news untainted by censorship. There are 3 types of bloggers in this world: Fictionals, Newsies, and Irwins. Fictionals obviously blog fiction and the various types therein. Newsies blog nothing but the facts. Irwins, like their namesake Steve Irwin, go out into the world and poke the various things in it with a stick, then they blog the results, a sometimes very dangerous job. 
 Georgia Mason is a newsie, Shaun Mason is an Irwin and together with their friend Buffy (a Fictional) they blog for a living. 
 Thus we have the stage set for Feed. It's a world that's scared to go outside, they are scared of each other, and every time you go anywhere blood tests are required, even if you just go outside to water your plants. 
 I had very few gripes about Feed. One of them is that I think it could have been edited a bit more, a few things are repeated several times, and they just don't need to be. While I understand that the blood tests are a vital part of this world, they are described, in detail, far too often. After the first few, a few light mentions would suffice. 
 My second gripe is: of all the bloggers in the last 25 years... Georgia and her team are the best qualified to follow the presidential campain? I'd have found this more likely had they already been established in the big leagues of blogging when they got the offer/application. 
 My third gripe: Apparently, we have to get cozy with politicians to find some conflict. In this world, that's not the story I'd have told. Even with reporter main characters they could have stumbled on the conflict doing a story elsewhere. (view spoiler)[ Like maybe on the CDC? (hide spoiler)]. Suffice to say it felt, to me, almost like wasted potential. This could just be my bias against politcs talking though, I'm sure some people fully enjoyed being snuggled up to the political pulse of the book. 
 Anyway, the author did manage to surprise me. The ending what not what I expected, and the start and the end of the book felt full circle and did cause me to leak a few tears (more like torrents of tears). I was disappointed that full resolution of the conflict doesn't happen, but I understand why. 
 A solid 4 stars for this book, I really liked it, despite my gripes. Well written and constructed. Highly recommended.