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The Girl With All The Gifts: Hungry Plague 1
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M R Carey
Jennifer Dakki
, August 16, 2014
So many times we read something and the mind forms this thought... "I wonder what that character was thinking." Carey dispels the potential for any such queries by artfully doing what we wish for... writing from the point of view of all the main characters. Five different characters tell the story that takes place within this unique world, and you process the information without stumbling through a single transition. Some chapters last a page while others last ten. This left every moment needing to stop to go to work or run an errand or any of the multitudes of things that keep us from reading with a natural stopping point. It similarly left us with the opportunity to get in that one more chapter. The story itself is well told, and it is clear from the first page that Melanie is, as one character put it, "[an adult in the body of a child in the body of something else.]" You feel unsettled with her and with every quandary she comes up against. Melanie is... different. She knows this as much as everyone else knows, but there is a battle that rages within her. She has more knowledge than most college students today, and she probably processes information better. You will also meet the perspectives of Miss Helen Justineau (a teacher) alongside those of Sergeant Ed Parks, Private Kieran Gallagher, and Dr. Caroline Caldwell. Each contributes to the revelations about this dystopian world where zombies go bump in the night and the day. This is my first zombie novel, and likely my last because I don't have an appetite for them (no pun intended). However, this is a novel that lives up to its hype. If you enjoy zombie books, Read It. If you want to be entertained, Read It. If you want to read a well written work with a unique story line... Read It.
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California
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Edan Lepucki
Jennifer Dakki
, July 22, 2014
The fantastic thing about this novel is that it forced me to be patient... it gave me a little info and then pulled back, gave me a little more, and then pulled back again... I was a bit annoyed at first because I kept thinking to myself... WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! Then I realized this dance Edan Lepucki dances with her readers draws them in slowly until they become completely immersed in the story. She gives you a bit of the past, then the present, back to the past back to the present... tiny morsels that leave you hungry for more information and more insight. Edan did a masterful job of transitioning from past to present and from Cal's POV to Frida's to help provide those morsels and to let the story unfold naturally as if you were living it with them. You, the reader, are the third person in their marriage looking to see what will happen next. Frida and her husband Cal are in this world that's not the dystopian world of the far future. This is a world that was created because nature's savagery brought the world to its knees. Phenomena ranging from earthquakes to blizzards caused civilization to break down. People, and their reaction to all that had happened caused degeneration to occur that much quicker. Economic disparity and desperation fragmented society. Some might think... that could never happen, but after the brutal winter we just had with that awful polar vortex, it felt like it could be real. While the book was great overall, my frustration was the end. After this entire dance, it felt very abrupt. Things that could have and should have been explained weren't and you start with shock... "Is that it?" Then you move to anger... "no, no, no... did you run out of ink Edan, are you writing a sequel?" Then you move on to the only way you know how to comfort yourself..."Yes of course there's going to be a sequel, there has to be, the story is nowhere near done... if it's done then there was no point to this story, but surely there was a point to all this great writing and therefore there will be a sequel." Edan Lepucki... I hope there's a sequel.
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