is it kind of feeling...dead in here? Or I that just the stench of zombie?
These creatures have been taking over lately (and not just in the bitey sense). TV, books, even running apps have latched onto the latest entertainment craze. The warning signs were all there... the books,
the famous-Youtuber-playing-themed-game,
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the adapted classics,
handbooks....
movies,
teen romance-y zombie flicks, (what?!)
-and last but not least, a zombie running app.
What's next for the bookshelves? In order, -from where I live- we have had
-werewolves (Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater, for example)
-vampires (Twilight -S. Meyer-, the Morganville series, by Rachel Caine)
-angels/fallen angels/demons (The Fallen series, by Lauren Kate, and Hush Hush by B. Fitzpatrick)
-apocalypse/new society (Hunger Games by S Collins, Divergent by V. Roth)
-and now the zombies, some examples of which are above.
The brackets contain examples, but I'm sure there are plenty I haven't mentioned.
Some of these genres are still around, but it is zombies that are at their peak. How long do you think this will last?
Are there any books from each genre that you particularly like? Is there a theme you want to see come back, or one you wish would just go away forever?
Where does fiction have left to go?
Witches are possible, with the recent popularity of Beautiful Creatures (a series and now a movie, too).
Hmmmmmmmm.
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