I devoured this book over the course of a few days. I'm generally not a fan of zombie movies/TV. Can't stomach the gore. However with this book I discovered I've no trouble reading it. The characters in this book are well drawn and the action is well paced. I was constantly thinking "what is going to happen next" and I wasn't disappointed.
The story itself was decent, but the characters were so well-written and complex, that the story became gripping for having them in it.
Another thing that impressed me was the vocabulary. I wish there was a breakdown of, I dunno, the vocabulary index of this book. I'm reasonably sure there were more unique words in this book than in the last five I've read. Simply wonderful.
This book is something else entirely… Much like the main character, in fact. That’s no spoiler; you find out on page one that she’s different. It takes all of the rest of pages to figure out why.
I doubt reading this book would ever have occurred to me without a recommendation. It says “emotionally charged” right there in the description! That’s my least favorite way for something to be! I prefer emotionally drained, or at most emotionally ambivalent. Even so, I definitely don’t regret it.
There are a lot of really smart references, at least relative to the subject matter. The whole thing presents a few neat philosophical quandaries. None of them are particularly novel, even within the genre, but I think they may be better written here. I especially enjoy a story where I don’t despise any of the characters, even the intentionally despicable ones. My hat is off …
This book is something else entirely… Much like the main character, in fact. That’s no spoiler; you find out on page one that she’s different. It takes all of the rest of pages to figure out why.
I doubt reading this book would ever have occurred to me without a recommendation. It says “emotionally charged” right there in the description! That’s my least favorite way for something to be! I prefer emotionally drained, or at most emotionally ambivalent. Even so, I definitely don’t regret it.
There are a lot of really smart references, at least relative to the subject matter. The whole thing presents a few neat philosophical quandaries. None of them are particularly novel, even within the genre, but I think they may be better written here. I especially enjoy a story where I don’t despise any of the characters, even the intentionally despicable ones. My hat is off to you, sir!
