Reviewed by ladygrey on
The story opens well and even though there's a lot of world building it's threaded into the narrative pretty seamlessly. It suffers some from Dollhouse Syndrome with a very tough and emotionless heroine, which makes it difficult to connect with her. But she comes to life and the progression was natural. The story changes several times so it's not the same setting or situation constantly. The romance evolved well and isn't the entirety of the story. Again, very simply well done. Granted there were a couple of places that were repeated needlessly. I motioned for them to follow me. "Follow me," I whispered. Yeah, I got that already. But I can forgive a few flaws.
Though, as well paced as it is, the writing is probably why I never really connected to it emotionally and never really engaged with the characters. It was good in several ways, I just didn't love it.
The surprising thing, though, and I almost feel like this is a spoiler, is this is totally a zombie book! It obvious now but I didn't see that from the synopsis. It's got all the right elements from destroying their brains to flesh eating and even, literally an angry horde of townspeople. It's never a genre or subject matter I've liked before, except a friend's pilot once that was really well done. So that in itself was kind of impressive.
And I really appreciated that it didn't end on a cliffhanger. I kept waiting for that horrible moment in the last chapter where everything went wrong, but thankfully that didn't happen.
"Don’t make me punch you anymore, okay?" he whispered.
I nodded, opening my eyes. "You have to punch other people, though."
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 24 January, 2014: Finished reading
- 24 January, 2014: Reviewed