Natalie Maher‘s Are You Even Human is a difficult book to categorize. While it certainly starts out as post-apocalyptic survival, it’s also on a character-driven journey to answer the question of the title and shifts into a completely different genre once the military takes center stage. Closer to an agency thriller maybe? There are lots of different directions it could go at this point, so it’ll be interesting to see how things progress.
Feedback, the fourth novel in Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire‘s Newsflesh series is mostly an outside look at the events of Feed that goes rather off the rails in its second half. That first half is quite good even if some of the events feel like retcons, but the second half just… isn’t. The CDC doesn’t get a focus until Deadline, and so having them hit as hard as they do here just doesn’t gel with previous events. And then that whole raider abduction thing? What even is that?
So I’m left with pretty mixed feelings on the novel as a whole and can’t really recommend it.
