Book Review: Year Zero by Rob Reid

Title: Year Zero Author: Rob Reid Publication Date: July 10, 2012 Publisher: Del Rey Pages: 364 Add to Goodreads I received this book in a First Reads giveaway on Goodreads . An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .  In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show...

Audiobook Review: Feed by Mira Grant

Title: FEED (Newsflesh #1) Author: Mira Grant Publication Date: May 1, 2010 Publisher: Orbit Pages: 571 Add to Goodreads The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them. I was very underwhelmed...