**Mild spoilers ahead!!!Oh boy, this was dark, filled with death and zombies, and I loved every single minute. Literally all my friends thought it was slow and boring, but I'm over here like, "BITCH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT??? I NEED TO KNOW." I'm so shook. I had such low expectations for **The Forest of Hands and Teeth** because everyone hates it!!! I guess I just hate books people love and love books people hate.I don't know why, but I went into this thinking it was a horror ghost...

I'm not even sure where to begin with this review. I went into Carrie Ryan's *The Forest of Hands and Teeth* completely blind, and maybe that's the best way to experience it. All I knew was that it was a YA zombie novel, and I was in the mood for some undead action. What I got was so much more, and it completely wrecked me. *The Forest of Hands and Teeth* isn't just another zombie book. It's a haunting, thought-provoking exploration of faith, hope, and the human spirit in the face of unimaginab...

More YA filler garbage. I guess *The Forest of Hands and Teeth* by Carrie Ryan had potential, but the writing, the plot, the dialogue... I just can't. It was like Carrie Ryan lost a bet about how minimal a vocabulary she could use to write *The Forest of Hands and Teeth*. Ocean. Ocean. OCEAN. OCEAN OCEAN OCEAN. I swear to God, stop saying 'ocean'! Talk about something else, *anything* else. Seriously. Don't hit your readers over the head with a hammer; we GET it. We GET it! Don't remind us every...

Okay... personally, when I see a book rated 3 stars, I tend to skip it. Three stars just feels like a pretty weak rating to me. But I want to emphasize that I think *The Forest of Hands and Teeth* by Carrie Ryan is worth reading, and the story is genuinely intriguing – so much so that I'm considering picking up the next book in the series. So, why only 3 stars? Well, it was better than just "okay," and I did enjoy it, but there were just enough things that bugged me to keep it from reaching "re...

How to Write a Best Selling YA Novel1. Make sure you write the book in a POV that distances us from the narrator. If you have no idea how to write 1st Person Present, do it anyway. It makes the book confusing and fun for your reader to plow through. Also, make sure your narrator's POV is very boring. Boring enough to put Plato, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare to sleep. 2. Make your narrator a selfish, boring girl with little to no life outside of her love interest and one singular hobby. Whether it...

See this family?Or this family?Take a good, long, hard look at all their faces.See how happy, how healthy, how loving they are. Imagine you've known them your entire life and that you love each one more than life itself.Now imagine if you were one of the people in that photograph with them.Now imagine that I told you and all those other people standing and smiling with you that I was going to kill you all so that I could go for a trip to the beach...Okay, now you know the basic plot of *The Fore...

Mary is a piece of work. Let's just get that out of the way right off the bat. As a main character, I tried to like her. I really did. Didn't happen. The story kicks off in a small town where Mary lives. It's ruled by the Guardians and the Sisterhood. The Sisterhood: The book never really explained why the Guardians existed or much of what they did. I actually want to know more about the creepy Sisterhood that everyone listens to. I don't get why they were in charge. Mary ends up in the Siste...

I was really looking forward to reading *The Forest of Hands and Teeth*. Great premise, glowing reviews. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed. First off, I really didn't like the writing style. Present tense can be amazing in the right hands (like in Lisa McMann's *Wake* and *Fade*), but here it just felt clumsy and didn't add any intensity to the story. Quite the opposite, it really bugged me. I didn't find *The Forest of Hands and Teeth* by Carrie Ryan all that original. It felt like a weake...

Synopsis:Sometime in the future, the world's gone to hell, overrun by zombies—people infected by some nasty virus that turns them into flesh-eating undead, called the "Unconsecrated." Mary lives in a village hemmed in by The Forest of Hands and Teeth, where the Unconsecrated are kept out by a chain-link fence. As far as the villagers know, they might be the last uninfected humans left. Fear rules Mary's little world, and the people have latched onto this Medieval-style religious fervor to give t...

Dear Mary, You went full Shane. You *never* go full Shane. Hugs and kisses, Kiki xoxo [Keywords: book review, zombie fiction]