Reviews

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

michael_gallipo's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

abbyl819's review

4.0

Although I didn't find this book to be quite as engaging and captivating at Dread Nation, I enjoyed reading it and am glad to have finally read this series. I frequently was annoyed at the many words and phrases that were repeated countless times, likely due to trying to stick with the language of the time period, but I found the repetition a little distracting while reading. I do find that I preferred Jane's perspective, but I am glad that we were able to read from Katherine's pint of view and to keep up with her journey. The ending left a few unanswered questions that I wish had been addresses, but overall I though that it made sense and was a logical ending. There was such a variety of representation in this book, done in ways that didn't seem like representation for the sake of representation. It fi really well into the story and was so immersed with the world that it seemed more like ana Easter egg thing to notice than anything else. I especially enjoyed seeing a character (Katherine) with some anxiety and how that affected her.

tmjmack12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lydaalexander's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

buhdumbitch's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

insane i wish i would erase my memory of this so i can read it again for the first time 

jenhurst's review

4.0

The first book is a lot better but I still enjoyed this take on zombies.

macaronireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

kjtlion's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

4.0

bluejaybooks's review

Jane really grew on me in this book. Which is surprising considering she is now even more vicious than she was in the first book ;)

A take on the zombie apocalypse that examines how the introduction of zombies could have affected historical racial inequality. Got to admit it's kind of odd to read about a zombie disease in the age of COVID-19 though. I keep wanting to compare the fictional pandemic to what we're living through right now . . . As a matter of fact, let's do that!

What COVID-19 and the zombie apocalypse (as depicted in the Dread Nation series) have in common:

• -They bring out racial prejudice. Prejudice against people of Asian decent for COVID-19 and prejudice against black people for the zombies.


• -The price of necessities increase as a result of the infection.


• -Both can be spread by contact with bodily fluids.


• -People search for a vaccine. (Okay, so maybe the search in Dread Nation is rather messed up, but still...)

Okay, so they're actually pretty different . . . still strange to read books with any sort of pandemic connection right now

justineprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0