Pulling in at just over 100 pages, it’s a good length for this compact and tight story which has a high technological drive. “Final Girls” has a whiff of both series mentioned above. However, her real name is Seanan McGuire, and this highly prolific author also writes urban fantasy under that name. Both these sequences are great examples of what Mira can do. Also very entertaining is the “Parasite” series, a complex blend of hard science and horror, in which a genetically engineered tapeworm eradicates illness, but the tapeworms soon get nasty and mankind is in serious pearl. Great examples are the “Newsflesh” series which begins with “Feed” (2010) which has news hungry and techy brilliant teens fighting it out after a zombie holocaust. This author is particularly effective when she mashes up horror with these other genres. I’m pleased to say it didn’t disappoint and was an highly efficient mix of horror, speculative and science fiction. My kindle informed me that reading Mira Grant’s latest novella “The Final Girls” was going to cost me 135 minutes of my time, having read a few of Mira’s books in the past I was happy to reacquainting myself with her new release.
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