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Mira Grant, my new favorite author.

I read Mira Grant's Feed last year and loved it. I'm actually not a HUGE zombie story fan, preferring my supernatural stories on the vampiric side of things, but since romance authors co-opted the genre years ago, it's been tough finding a good vampire story that doesn't involve some kind of tortured love triangle. So I'm open to branching out into other venues. Feed hooked me right away, making me laugh out loud in the first few pages, requiring that I buy the book immediately and find out more about these characters. I was not disappointed. (No, the book's not a comedy—quite the opposite—but it's not afraid to have some fun, along with a healthy dose of social satire, in the midst of its zombie-outbreak horror story.) I just finished the sequel, Deadline , today (equally entertaining) and picked up the next book, Blackout . To my surprise and delight, I found this on the back cover: Blackout is the conclusion to the epic near-future trilogy t