Review: The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Twenty-two years after the Rising, they thought they were safe. They thought they knew what to do to protect the children. They had safety protocols in place: blood tests, desk restraints, automatic locks, shutters.
But on March 19, 2036, in Seattle's Evergreen Elementary, these all failed. The doors didn't lock, the guards didn't notice blood on a young boy, and the dead roamed the halls.
This is Elaine Oldenburg's story. Though many used her as a scapegoat for the disaster that happened at Evergreen, this novella shows us a courageous young woman who did the best she could in the circumstances gives to her. Set Twenty-two years after the Rising and four years before the start of Feed, we are given a new look into the everyday lives of those living in a word surrounded by zombies.
It was really neat to see the different methods that they tried to use to control an outbreak. The internal communications shared between Alaric, Mahir, and Maggie allow us to compare the conditions in 2036 and what they are in 2044 when Alaric is researching the outbreak at Evergreen. We also find out that Elaine may have been someone we met before in one of the previous Newsflesh novels... but I don't want to spoil anything so I'll let you discover who she is for yourself!
This is a great addition to the Newsflesh universe, and I'm very happy to add this to my collection.
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