the_cyantist_'s reviews
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Dr. Mona's telling of the Flint water crisis was compelling. As a Michigan resident, I relived my anger of learning that my state was poisoning thousands of people. I dealt with my own water "crisis" when Lake Erie had it's awful algal bloom, but I live in a community of privilege, where it was fixed in three days. I can't imagine living in fear of my tap water for YEARS.

Dr. Mona's descriptions of bureaucratic latency made me grit my teeth and clench my fists all over again. As a future scientist, her experience with the state trying to discredit her added to the anger I feel for her, because this is what the government is doing to this day. Discrediting scientists and blatantly lying about our situation.

The asides to her family history help bring the story to a more refined point. Dr. Mona comes from a long line of advocates and activists, which I think perfectly describe her as the person taking on this responsibility. I think it also reminds everyone that the hero in the story can and will be an immigrant is we still allow them to have a chance.

Dr. Mona did incredible work and deserves the recognition she's receiving. I only wish I knew her true story earlier, and not the discrediting and pointing-fingers the state put her in.

What drew me to the book was the incoming flu-induced apocalypse, which was only discussed for a very short part in the beginning. I wish it had more lead up to the wasteland that ended the novel!

I was really excited to have a journalist-like perspective on a zombie apocalypse, to only be pretty disappointed by Feed.

Although I liked how Grant discussed sterilization techniques and viral amplification in a true scientific manner because I study this stuff, I understood the concept the after the 2nd time it was mentioned. A lot of these topics were very repetitive as the story went on and the characters ran into/discussed scenarios where these were used. I'll give Grant the point of discussing the blood tests repetitively because that would be very true to life's redundancy if we ever had an outbreak of something this dangerous.

I have a lot that didn't sit right with me for the book which I really wanted to enjoy, but having a good chunk of the book about the political process got boring and I wish it was a bit more apocalyptic so I could be on the edge of my seat waiting for the next bit of action. Overall, kinda disappointed about it.