By: M.R.Cary
Location: FIC CAR
Genre: Horror and Zombies and Apocalyptic
The Girl with All the Gifts series is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.
Just
a fantastic fascinating beautifully formed reading experience. All the
love for this one. Both the boy and the girl hit me right in the reading
soul.
Highly Recommended. HIGHLY."- LIZ
"The
Girl with All the Gifts opens in the strangest classroom ever. (And as a
teacher, I’ve seen some pretty strange classrooms.) After the zombie
apocalypse in England, some infected children have, for reasons unknown,
been turned into zombies but have also retained their human
intelligence. Melanie is the research lab’s star pupil. Along with her
classmates, who are all strapped in their chairs to keep them from, you
know, eating the human teacher, they go through lessons and read
stories, so the scientists can try to understand what makes these bright
young zombies tick. Melanie is not really aware of what she is, or why
she is there. This ‘school’ is the only life she’s ever known. But she
is aware that once in a while her classmates disappear into the lab and
never come back. She fears she may be called to leave sooner or later,
and she doesn’t want to part with her beloved teacher.
Then one
day, Melanie’s world changes. Class is dismissed forever. Melanie will
have to decide where she stands. Is she one of the humans? Or are the
humans her food? The book does a great (terrifying) job describing the
sort of fungal infection that could plausibly mutate into a zombie-type
disease. The characters are great. The death count is high, like worse
than Walking Dead high, and the ending is both terrifying and beautiful.
Like zombies? Check it out!"- review by Rick Riordan!
Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've
already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more
like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time
ago.”
―
M.R. Carey,
The Girl with All the Gifts
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