How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Until now, the Newsflesh series has taken place in the US, although through Mahir and other characters we get a feel for how it played out in other parts of the world.In this novella, though, we see a post-rising Australia. True to form, they live life just as differently post-zombie as they do now. Of the three novellas, this is the most rushed and least satisfying. It leaves too many questions unanswered and the narrative incomplete. However, at this point, I enjoy the characters enough and was fascinated by the differences between the US and Australia post-zombie that i didn't downgrade the rating to a 3 from 4 stars. My only complaint about this story is that Grant wrote it as a novella. The voice is great, the story is interesting, and there's a lot of room to explore the different ways that the world might react to a zombie apocalypse. In fact, it feels like it was MEANT to be a novel. She introduces at least two mysteries -- and it's easy to imagine that they're related -- and then explicitly says, "Welp, guess we'll never know who did those things." Feels like she just decided, "Eh, I don't have time to write a whole novel. Let me just get this thing out the door." Really too bad there's not more of it.
What do You think about How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (2013)?
loved the Australia that was created. it felt like a very reasonable outcome.
—Caroline
Zombie kangaroos, and the wildlife conservationists who love them.
—Rick_Pitino
Oh, Mahir. Yes, if you like the series, you'll need to read this.
—treekneex3
