I’m a fan of zombie books, but it’s been a while since I’ve had my zombie fix. This book was the perfect solution to that problem. I especially loved that it had a unique angle on the genre – it wasn’t just life as usual and then the zombies hit. This was much more of a dystopia, with a controlling government willing to sacrifice its people and revolutionaries called The Underground who are fighting to regain […]
Title: The Hallowed Ones Series: The Hallowed Ones #1 Author: Laura Bickle Release Date: Sept, 2012 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 311, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.03 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16? (Some pretty grisly violence, sexual situations, but not much is really shown) Summary from Goodreads: Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale […]
The New Hunger as my June Random Read (I just barely got this read in June, but I did it!). This is a novella prequel to Warm Bodies and I honestly wasn’t that excited about reading it, but I’m very glad that I did! I think I liked the prequel better than I liked Warm Bodies because it really delved into what it felt like to live in Marion’s zombie world. This novella gave us […]
I picked this book up because I really wanted to read it before I watched the movie, which is coming out on DVD in June. The first thing that really struck me was that the book was written from the perspective of a zombie! This was something unexpected and new – I loved getting into R’s mind and I thought that this made the book much more interesting and enjoyable than your typical zombie […]