Jeff Carpenter
While browsing the Play store, I saw that this was free for a limited time, so I decided to add it to my library. Having read it, I'm glad it was free. The book starts off beating the reader over the head with the idea that "grown ups" and "fathers" and "mothers" are monsters coming out of the shadows to eat children. All the while, the disease they have has no logical basis in the real world....it seemingly adapts as the author decides what he wants the "grown ups" to be able to do at that point in time. In a similar vain, the author chooses to beat us over the head with character thoughts and emotions. Rather than let us come to understand the characters, we're flat out told things like "He's the leader, but it wears on him." The story is told from any and all points of view, with jumps in and out of character's minds,. Any character you may even come to like is probably killed off uneventfully, and after a short while becomes neither surprising or meaningful. Finally, the book is more a series of interconnected events, instead of a good story with some moral or even final resolution.
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Quentin Givens
The "kids are the only people left" premise originally turned me away from picking this up. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a good book with decently unique ideas. Warning, though: the sequels incrementally drop in quality(I stopped halfway through book 3, so if 4+ are better I guess I'll stand corrected).
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James Sites
I was looking for a new book to read about 2 weeks ago and stumbled on this. From the description I figured I would like it. Oh boy let me tell you, I fell in love with this book and found out there as another five already out. I bought them all and couldn't put them down. I finished the 6th book today and I'm so excited to read the next one and see how it all plays out. My favorite series ever
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