See this family?Or this family?Take a good long hard look at all of 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 Fo...

Synopsis: Sometime in the future, the world is overrun by zombies--people infected by an unknown virus that causes them to return as the undead and feed on human flesh--called the "Unconsecrated". Mary lives in a village surrounded by the Forest of Hands and Teeth, where the Unconsecrated are kept out by a chain-link fence, and to the villagers' knowledge, they may be the last bastion of uninfected humanity. Mary's little world is ruled by fear and the people have turned to a Medieval-like relig...

**some mild spoilers ahead!!!ohhh boy, this was dark and filled with death and zombies and i loved every minute of it. literally all my friends found this slow and boring, but i'm here like "biTCH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT??? I NEED TO KNOW." i'm so shook, i literally had such low expectations for this book 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 story, but it's...

More filler YA garbage. It had potential I guess but the writing quality, the plot quality, the dialogue quality, I just can't. It was like the author lost a bet over how minimal a vocabulary she could use to write a book. Ocean. Ocean. OCEAN. OCEAN OCEAN OCEAN I swear to god stop saying ocean talk about something else anything else. Seriously. Do not hit your readers over the head with a hammer we GET IT. WE GET IT DON'T REMIND US EVERY CHAPTER I AM DROWNING IN YOUR SEA OF OCEANS.All the main c...

Dear Mary,

You went full Shane. You never go full Shane.

Hugs and kisses,

Kiki

xoxo

Ok... personally, when I see a book rated 3 stars I tend to avoid it, 3 stars to me seems a very poor rating. However, I want to stress that I think this book is worth the read and the story is very intriguing, even so far as that I am looking into getting the next book in the series.So why did it get 3 stars? Well, it was more than 'ok' and I did like it, but there were just enough elements that annoyed me to not reach the 'really liked it' marker, especially when I compare it to other books th...

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 any way. 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 i...

Mary is a shit. Let's get that straight from the beginning. As a main character I tried to like her. I really did. Did NOT happen. The story starts off in a small town that Mary lives in. It's ruled by the Guardians and the Sisterhood. The sisterhood: The book never really explained why the Guardians existed nor much of what they did. I actually want to know more about the creepy Sisterhood that everyone listens too. I don't get why they were in charge. Mary ends up in the Sisterhood due to s...

I was very much looking forward to reading this book. Great premise, rave reviews. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. First of all, I truly disliked the writing style. Present tense writing can do wonders in skillful hands (see Wake, Fade by Lisa McMann), but in this case this style was mishandled, it didn't add any kind of intensity to the story. Quite the opposite, I was extremely irritated by it. I don't think this book was in any way original. It read mostly like kind of Village/Dawn of the ...