#15: Mira Grant, Blackout (Newsflesh #3)

[kareila]

The third and final book of the trilogy brings back more of what I loved about the first book and felt was missing from the second book. Unfortunately the villains are still mostly idiotic and unbelievable, and I'm more than vaguely disappointed the heroes never got a worthier adversary, i.e. someone whose first and only backup plan isn't "surround them with zombies and wait for them to die." I'd even have settled for bad guys who truly believed they were acting for the greater good and tortured themselves over the hard decisions they'd had to make. (We see a little of this with Rick, but he's not a villain.) Instead, we get a bunch of soulless creeps who are willing to kill millions of people with no visible remorse whatsoever, in order to inspire fear and better control the surviving population. Our heroes are likable enough that we don't need the opposition to be irredeemably evil in order to want the good guys to win.