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brucemri's review
5.0
An outstanding work, in a genre that's hard to do anything fresh in. This is a zombie-ish apocalypse story, with the "zombies" infected by a mysterious fungus-like blight; there are hints laid for revelations and evolutions in later volumes. It's a nice framework that lets them tie together a bunch of different zombie tropes, as they cheerfully acknowledge in their thanks. What makes me rate this so highly, though, is the excellence with which Barnes and Due write about young people. They've got a talent for describing loving family life with all its complexities, bad mixed in with the good, human fallibility and uncertainty making hard moments harder, the ways it's much easier to make a sacrifice for another than accept a loved other making a sacrifice for you. The losses the protagonists suffer matter, because we get time to appreciate the people and ways of life they're giving up. There are plenty of exciting moments and some great horror, but it's all worth bothering with because of the humanity.
reader_fictions's review
3.0
This year, the office where I work brought in someone to give people flu shots, making it easier for people to get them. Despite the fact that I declined the invite and didn’t fill out the paperwork, one of the admin at the office still called me to bully me into getting one. Peer pressure does not work on me for things I don’t want to do, so I didn’t get one. I’m opposed to them for a lot of reasons, one of which being my fear of needles, but that’s not the only reason, despite coworkers insistence that I need to stop being a ‘wussy.’ Thanks to Devil’s Wake, I have a new reason to dislike the flu shot: it could totally turn you into a zombie.
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ellekhupe's review
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
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