The cover is the only good thing about this graphic novel.
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Found myself stuck waiting outside a thrift store changing room without a book in hand so I downloaded this for free from Amazon Prime Reading because I have long been intrigued by its cover. I swiped through the first third pretty quickly. Aside from being a rehash of Stephen King's Cell nothing special seemed to be happening, so it took me a couple days to get back to it.

As I continued reading it reminded me of The Girl with All the Gifts and the later volumes of I Am a Hero with all of its bleakity-bleak bleakness. Then I realized I spent more time thinking about other books rather than this one even as I read it, and well, that ain't good.

As I log this, I find that there are actually two sequel volumes: Cognetic and Eugenic. The completist in me has the urge to check them out, but I think I'll resist for once, especially since Tynion has been a hit-or-miss author for me. (Update: Oh, it seems they are thematic sequels, not directly continuing Memetic but offering up their own apocalyptic plot and new characters. That makes them even less interesting.) ( )