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sgreen2307's review against another edition
3.0
Great! As good as the first one! Leaves it open in the end which is great because that means there will be another book!
ambeesbookishpages's review against another edition
5.0
This Book was absolutly wonderful. I enjoyed every minute of reading it and felt as if I was part of the book.
The phenomenon that's been sweeping the country seems to be here to stay. Not only are the teenagers who have come back from their graves still here, but newlydeads are being unearthed all the time.
Phoebe Kendall is a average American teeanger with a crush on a dead boy Tommy Willams.
The phenomenon that's been sweeping the country seems to be here to stay. Not only are the teenagers who have come back from their graves still here, but newlydeads are being unearthed all the time.
Phoebe Kendall is a average American teeanger with a crush on a dead boy Tommy Willams.
colorfulpieces's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Who would have thought a book about teenagers starting to come back from the dead would be so relatable to real life issues? This book series is absolutely amazing and it really makes you think while also being lighthearted and fun
hauntedantiqueshop's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Upon review, I realized I did read this book in middle school too! Completely forgot about it being the sequel to Generation Dead, I think I might have merged them together in my memory. But I actually like this one more than the first! It’s a little bit darker, more serious than the first and I appreciate that so much more than the cutesy high school drama of the first book. And basically Tommyless! Not sure why he annoys me but he does. I also really hate love triangles sooo I basically ignored it in this (we’d all pick Adam anyways, right?).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Murder, Violence, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, and Confinement
Minor: Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail
All of these tw are VERY light, nothing goes into detail really. The SA is mentioned in passing, overheard from something and not talked about again. Fully pointless and unnecessary tbh.jenniepicky's review against another edition
2.0
I was so looking forward to the book and was disappointed from the start. Everything I loved about the 1st novel was gone. Everything I disliked was there in spades. I think the rest of this series is a pass. This series is more about racial tension (where 'dead' is the persecuted race) than anything else. If politics and hate crimes are what interest you, then this series is for you.
zoe_e_w's review against another edition
1.0
So, I finish Generation Dead, and I'm thinking I can't wait to read the next book and find out what happens next. Well, what happens next is, the writer falls in love with his bigot antagonist, and decides that he should be the main character for the second book.
Let's start with the "trial" of Pete Martinsburg, in which there is no prosecution's case, no testimony from Phoebe about who Pete was aiming at, no testimony from the police about Pete's blood alcohol level or his illegal possession of a firearm, WHILE TRESPASSING AND INTOXICATED, and only the slimmest fucking scene with the defense attorney asking if Adam thought Pete meant to kill anybody. Adam says no, so Pete gets off with...ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM??? WTF? The only reason this happens is because the writer had nothing else to do except use the same bigot, even if they should have gone to jail. If only the writer cared about anyone else in the story this much. Then the other characters might have had interesting stories that were also just as stupid and convenient as Pete's.
Every other chapter is all Pete, all the time. His story is so...it's convenient bullshit, is what it is. And I might have forgiven that if the other characters were doing something interesting, but they're just stuck in a holding pattern, doing nothing while waiting for Pete's chapters. Tommy leaves town and emails in his role. Collette leaves town with an undead punk singer. (but not before spending an eternity telling jokes with Margi that are NEVER funny. Every scene with them is painfully stupid to read.) Tak and "the resistance" are making stupid flyers and vandalized art displays like that means anything useful for their cause. Karen is just so awesomely pretty and smart and perfect and...God I want to vomit. Any scene with Adam is put into this god-awful first-person stream of consciousness that no other zombie uses, resulting in brutally painful passages to read whenever the focus turns to him. And even then, the vast majority of his scenes are him practicing martial arts in the most vague terms possible. Phoebe become so unlikeable that by the middle of the book I didn't care if she and Adam got together. Even after they did resolve their dull problems conveniently, she still found new ways to vaporize the last of my sympathy for her. The ONLY person I can say I still liked by the end was Margi, and that's only because she's a bit character whose only role is to act as backup to Phoebe or Collette. Beyond that, she has no life, and barely any personality.
And then the bigots unleash their plan, and it's fucking stupid. Even the derpy cops in The Powerpuff Girls could have solved this case with minimal effort, but the cops here don't because the writer loves Pete so much, they become the star of the series. Everyone else is a bit character, and Pete is the person who gets the most scene time. You would think a book series about the undead would explore their problems from their side, but NO. Instead we're stuck following a stupid jock with a hard-on for the undead because his girlfriend didn't come back as a zombie, and boohoo, life is so unfair that he has to destroy all the zombies.
There's a third book to this series, and it's all about Pete and Pete's plots against the undead. Well fuck it, I'm done. This makes yet another series where I really loved the first book, only to have the writer decide to veer off in a direction that makes me feel cheated for caring in the first place.
One star, and if I could give negative stars, this would be one of the few books this year I'd give it to.
Let's start with the "trial" of Pete Martinsburg, in which there is no prosecution's case, no testimony from Phoebe about who Pete was aiming at, no testimony from the police about Pete's blood alcohol level or his illegal possession of a firearm, WHILE TRESPASSING AND INTOXICATED, and only the slimmest fucking scene with the defense attorney asking if Adam thought Pete meant to kill anybody. Adam says no, so Pete gets off with...ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM??? WTF? The only reason this happens is because the writer had nothing else to do except use the same bigot, even if they should have gone to jail. If only the writer cared about anyone else in the story this much. Then the other characters might have had interesting stories that were also just as stupid and convenient as Pete's.
Every other chapter is all Pete, all the time. His story is so...it's convenient bullshit, is what it is. And I might have forgiven that if the other characters were doing something interesting, but they're just stuck in a holding pattern, doing nothing while waiting for Pete's chapters. Tommy leaves town and emails in his role. Collette leaves town with an undead punk singer. (but not before spending an eternity telling jokes with Margi that are NEVER funny. Every scene with them is painfully stupid to read.) Tak and "the resistance" are making stupid flyers and vandalized art displays like that means anything useful for their cause. Karen is just so awesomely pretty and smart and perfect and...God I want to vomit. Any scene with Adam is put into this god-awful first-person stream of consciousness that no other zombie uses, resulting in brutally painful passages to read whenever the focus turns to him. And even then, the vast majority of his scenes are him practicing martial arts in the most vague terms possible. Phoebe become so unlikeable that by the middle of the book I didn't care if she and Adam got together. Even after they did resolve their dull problems conveniently, she still found new ways to vaporize the last of my sympathy for her. The ONLY person I can say I still liked by the end was Margi, and that's only because she's a bit character whose only role is to act as backup to Phoebe or Collette. Beyond that, she has no life, and barely any personality.
And then the bigots unleash their plan, and it's fucking stupid. Even the derpy cops in The Powerpuff Girls could have solved this case with minimal effort, but the cops here don't because the writer loves Pete so much, they become the star of the series. Everyone else is a bit character, and Pete is the person who gets the most scene time. You would think a book series about the undead would explore their problems from their side, but NO. Instead we're stuck following a stupid jock with a hard-on for the undead because his girlfriend didn't come back as a zombie, and boohoo, life is so unfair that he has to destroy all the zombies.
There's a third book to this series, and it's all about Pete and Pete's plots against the undead. Well fuck it, I'm done. This makes yet another series where I really loved the first book, only to have the writer decide to veer off in a direction that makes me feel cheated for caring in the first place.
One star, and if I could give negative stars, this would be one of the few books this year I'd give it to.
kaitrosereads's review against another edition
4.0
WARNING: If you have not read Generation Dead, this review will contain SPOILERS. DO NOT CONTINUE if you haven't read it!
Welcome back to the world of zombies. Teenagers in America are continuing to rise from the dead and return to a semblance of life. Not everyone returns as a zombie and not everyone is happy about all the people that do return as zombies.
At the end of Generation Dead, Adam took a bullet to save Phoebe's life. As a result, he died and returned as a zombie, but without most of his regular functions. He can barely walk, talk, or do anything without the help of somebody. Surprisingly, his family has taken him in more than they did when he was alive.
Phoebe has also started to take more of an interest in Adam now that she realizes his feelings for her. Adam had always loved Phoebe, but always from afar, and it seemed like his chance was gone when Tommy and Phoebe started dating but when Adam saved her life, she saw how much he truly meant to her.
Since he has been back, Phoebe has been spending all her time with Adam but things don't seem to be going anywhere. She knows that it is all her fault that he is now dead but she still can't seem to decide whether or not she loves him or Tommy. Tommy never really seemed to love her, but the idea of her, and Adam doesn't seem to love her at all anymore.
Meanwhile, some a group of renegade zombies has decided that they need to take action against the crimes that are being committed against zombies all over the nation. Most of their actions are just stupid pranks but when things go wrong and people start going missing, the zombies are always the first to blame. And there group has only made them seem more like the guilty party.
Will Adam and Phoebe ever truly be together or will Tommy always stand in their way? Will the nation ever find out the truth about the crimes committed to frame the zombies? Who will live and who will die, for good?
Kiss of Life was a fantastic sequel to Generation Dead. Daniel Waters continues to do an amazing job of revealing the true nature of the zombies' thoughts and feelings, along with showing the continuing discrimination against them. These are definitely not the flesh-eating zombies of the past, but a new kind, one that only wants to live in peace with the living.
To find out more, you can actually visit the main character, Tommy's, blog at mysocalledundeath.com.
Welcome back to the world of zombies. Teenagers in America are continuing to rise from the dead and return to a semblance of life. Not everyone returns as a zombie and not everyone is happy about all the people that do return as zombies.
At the end of Generation Dead, Adam took a bullet to save Phoebe's life. As a result, he died and returned as a zombie, but without most of his regular functions. He can barely walk, talk, or do anything without the help of somebody. Surprisingly, his family has taken him in more than they did when he was alive.
Phoebe has also started to take more of an interest in Adam now that she realizes his feelings for her. Adam had always loved Phoebe, but always from afar, and it seemed like his chance was gone when Tommy and Phoebe started dating but when Adam saved her life, she saw how much he truly meant to her.
Since he has been back, Phoebe has been spending all her time with Adam but things don't seem to be going anywhere. She knows that it is all her fault that he is now dead but she still can't seem to decide whether or not she loves him or Tommy. Tommy never really seemed to love her, but the idea of her, and Adam doesn't seem to love her at all anymore.
Meanwhile, some a group of renegade zombies has decided that they need to take action against the crimes that are being committed against zombies all over the nation. Most of their actions are just stupid pranks but when things go wrong and people start going missing, the zombies are always the first to blame. And there group has only made them seem more like the guilty party.
Will Adam and Phoebe ever truly be together or will Tommy always stand in their way? Will the nation ever find out the truth about the crimes committed to frame the zombies? Who will live and who will die, for good?
Kiss of Life was a fantastic sequel to Generation Dead. Daniel Waters continues to do an amazing job of revealing the true nature of the zombies' thoughts and feelings, along with showing the continuing discrimination against them. These are definitely not the flesh-eating zombies of the past, but a new kind, one that only wants to live in peace with the living.
To find out more, you can actually visit the main character, Tommy's, blog at mysocalledundeath.com.
ayyelle's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty good book, albeit a little predictable. It focused more on Adam and Phoebe's relationship and it was sweet! It makes me wanting more for sure! I can't wait to read the next book, I believe it's the last of the series.