Volume 30 of the "Walking Dead" picks up where 29 left off: Michonne, Eugene, and a group of Rick's survivors are headed for the settlement where Stephanie lives (Stephanie being the woman Eugene spoke to over the radio). It's the largest group of survivors in one place that any of them had ever seen. They meet the woman in charge, Pamela, who calls herself the Governor (uh oh). Michonne has a major reunion (no spoilers, I promise, but it was really good). Pamela decides she wants to meet Rick, so they head back to the settlement so the two can have a chat. It's an uneasy meeting: Rick doesn't like the way Pamela's settlement is run. It's based on how the world was before the zombie apocalypse, so if you were a high power, wealthy individual in the old world, you get the biggest house, nicest things, etc. Rick feels a new world is in order, with more equality. So we'll see how that all plays out.
Charlaine Harris is back with what seems to be a new series. It's an alternative history, imagining if President Franklin Roosevelt had been assassinated and the United States fell apart. The Russians took the west coast, the British took the east coast, the South became "Dixie", and Mexico took back most of Texas. What's left merged with Oklahoma to become Texoma, and that's where Gunnie Rose lives. Lizbeth by birth, she's a gunnie by trade: a hired gun who escorts people and good across the dangerous borders. She's hired by two Russian wizards to help her track down a man in Mexico. Things go all kinds of wrong, but it was super interesting and lots of fun. I'm looking forward to more of her adventures!
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