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mehsi's review
2.0
Downrated my rating to 2 stars. It was a good book, but Michelle and her *insert lots of bad words here* attitude just sickened me and pissed me off. The last part especially was just disgusting. :|
Immediately after reading the first book in this series I went to read the next one. I just had, HAD, to know what happened to our group.
I do have to say that I wasn't all too happy with how quick they ditched the ship/boat. Really, they did all that effort for it, all that pain to get it working, and then they just abandon it the first time they run across someone. Of course, everything is better than a boat, though I just wish the boat part was a bit longer and more fun.
We meet with a new character, Gary, and I have to say that to this day I still don't like him. At all. Or maybe it is not dislike but more that it is distrust. He is just too much + he didn't do anything. He endangered most of them with what he did and what he demanded.
We also meet a few new characters, and boy, I disliked Michelle from the start. The way she treated the man in her bed, but also how she reacted when things went haywire. I know that different people do different things during the apocalypse, some go catatonic, others go violent or psychotic, and yet others just find strength in them. It is really interesting, but that didn't lessen my very big dislike for Michelle. Especially later in the story and all she did there. I won't spoil anything, but all those moments together? I just hope that someone finds out, I just hope that someone is fast enough to save them all. Not from the zombies, but from this girl.
I did like the other new characters we meet. Lulu took a bit to get used to, but she was quite a nice girl. I wasn't sure about Francis, but he did seem like a good guy.
The POV switches, again, got annoying at times. Is it really necessary to just switch all the time? One paragraph would be about x, and then we would move to y. Arghhhh.
At first I was also a bit annoyed with the fact we were in the midst of something exciting and we would move to a new team/new group of survivors. But then I started liking it, and I just adored how, just like in the first book, it all connected in the end! How everything had its purpose.
The world building is great, I could imagine everything our team did. From the building they were in, the threats that happened to them, to the travel to the mall, to the mall itself. It was absolutely brilliant (and of course terrifying as well considering all the zombies).
The ending, well, I won't spoil much, but I was definitely pissed off with it. Also I wonder how no one, NO ONE heard it if they were in the next room. :|
But all in all, with the exception of the ending, Michelle, and also the changing POV at random times, I did really liked this book.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
Immediately after reading the first book in this series I went to read the next one. I just had, HAD, to know what happened to our group.
I do have to say that I wasn't all too happy with how quick they ditched the ship/boat. Really, they did all that effort for it, all that pain to get it working, and then they just abandon it the first time they run across someone. Of course, everything is better than a boat, though I just wish the boat part was a bit longer and more fun.
We meet with a new character, Gary, and I have to say that to this day I still don't like him. At all. Or maybe it is not dislike but more that it is distrust. He is just too much + he didn't do anything. He endangered most of them with what he did and what he demanded.
We also meet a few new characters, and boy, I disliked Michelle from the start. The way she treated the man in her bed, but also how she reacted when things went haywire. I know that different people do different things during the apocalypse, some go catatonic, others go violent or psychotic, and yet others just find strength in them. It is really interesting, but that didn't lessen my very big dislike for Michelle. Especially later in the story and all she did there. I won't spoil anything, but all those moments together? I just hope that someone finds out, I just hope that someone is fast enough to save them all. Not from the zombies, but from this girl.
I did like the other new characters we meet. Lulu took a bit to get used to, but she was quite a nice girl. I wasn't sure about Francis, but he did seem like a good guy.
The POV switches, again, got annoying at times. Is it really necessary to just switch all the time? One paragraph would be about x, and then we would move to y. Arghhhh.
At first I was also a bit annoyed with the fact we were in the midst of something exciting and we would move to a new team/new group of survivors. But then I started liking it, and I just adored how, just like in the first book, it all connected in the end! How everything had its purpose.
The world building is great, I could imagine everything our team did. From the building they were in, the threats that happened to them, to the travel to the mall, to the mall itself. It was absolutely brilliant (and of course terrifying as well considering all the zombies).
The ending, well, I won't spoil much, but I was definitely pissed off with it. Also I wonder how no one, NO ONE heard it if they were in the next room. :|
But all in all, with the exception of the ending, Michelle, and also the changing POV at random times, I did really liked this book.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
liedora's review
4.0
Sometimes with a trilogy the storyline can lose its pace and way when the second instalment comes out, but I’m glad to say this book did not fall victim to that issue. As with its predecessor this is not a long read by any means, coming in at 169 pages, but what this Author manages to pack into those pages just has to be read to be believed.
Not only are the characters from the first book included in this one, the Author introduces a new and interesting second set of characters. When writing the ‘leader’ of this second group, the Author has created the perfect antagonist who is a direct contrast to the lead the reader came to know in book one; together these two make a well-rounded team that, it seems, will be able to take on and triumph over anything that stands in their way. However reading about this new character will have the reader wondering whether they would rather face off against her or the other things that lurk within the books pages, at times I felt I would rather take my chances with them than her. Once again, all the characters are well written and very believable, and the reader will become connected to them; whether it is through love or hate they will connect.
Filled with shocking twists in the tale, and the ability given to the reader to follow one woman’s descent into madness, this book is definitely not for the faint of heart; combine this with the fast pace and high levels of action, this is a book that will keep you hooked to the very end.
If all zombie novels were as well written as this trilogy is turning out to be, I could well become a lover of the genre; as it is I would highly recommend this book to lovers of zombie fiction and also horror stories. I am looking forward to reading the final episode of this trilogy.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2014/05/16/review-haven-stevie-kopas/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Not only are the characters from the first book included in this one, the Author introduces a new and interesting second set of characters. When writing the ‘leader’ of this second group, the Author has created the perfect antagonist who is a direct contrast to the lead the reader came to know in book one; together these two make a well-rounded team that, it seems, will be able to take on and triumph over anything that stands in their way. However reading about this new character will have the reader wondering whether they would rather face off against her or the other things that lurk within the books pages, at times I felt I would rather take my chances with them than her. Once again, all the characters are well written and very believable, and the reader will become connected to them; whether it is through love or hate they will connect.
Filled with shocking twists in the tale, and the ability given to the reader to follow one woman’s descent into madness, this book is definitely not for the faint of heart; combine this with the fast pace and high levels of action, this is a book that will keep you hooked to the very end.
If all zombie novels were as well written as this trilogy is turning out to be, I could well become a lover of the genre; as it is I would highly recommend this book to lovers of zombie fiction and also horror stories. I am looking forward to reading the final episode of this trilogy.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.com/2014/05/16/review-haven-stevie-kopas/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
hyperashley's review
4.0
Second book in the trilogy and still going strong. Though I did like the first book better as a sequel I thought this was still a very good book and a good addition to the series.
I felt like the first book focused so much more on the undead and running from them. While there was a good portion of that in this one it was slightly less which tends to happen in most zombie books and shows. Again there were some deaths that I was kind of shocked happened in this book too and a new character to hate. I didn't really see the need for Michelle, her character was so not necessary to the story. I guess that had to be a bad guy other than the zombies and Michelle definitely made a good one.
I still liked Veronica's character and I like how strong the author made her. Even though I know Ben is older than her I so wanted them to get together. I thought it was weird that Catherine and Ben got together so soon after Desmond's death. That was a little too fast to me but it wasn't my story. Maybe during the apocalypse you don't have time to mourn the death of your husband so you sleep with someone else instead.
I really didn't see the need for part two of the book. Michelle and Lulu, though strong characters and I'm assuming vital to the story, I don't know why so much of their backstory was told. I was actually kind of confused by the jump back in time like that and I didn't like it. Maybe it didn't have to be so freaking long.
I'm still going to read book three and look forward to this trilogy coming to a close. I can't wait to see how Kopas is going to bring this story to a close.
I felt like the first book focused so much more on the undead and running from them. While there was a good portion of that in this one it was slightly less which tends to happen in most zombie books and shows. Again there were some deaths that I was kind of shocked happened in this book too and a new character to hate. I didn't really see the need for Michelle, her character was so not necessary to the story. I guess that had to be a bad guy other than the zombies and Michelle definitely made a good one.
I still liked Veronica's character and I like how strong the author made her. Even though I know Ben is older than her I so wanted them to get together. I thought it was weird that Catherine and Ben got together so soon after Desmond's death. That was a little too fast to me but it wasn't my story. Maybe during the apocalypse you don't have time to mourn the death of your husband so you sleep with someone else instead.
I really didn't see the need for part two of the book. Michelle and Lulu, though strong characters and I'm assuming vital to the story, I don't know why so much of their backstory was told. I was actually kind of confused by the jump back in time like that and I didn't like it. Maybe it didn't have to be so freaking long.
I'm still going to read book three and look forward to this trilogy coming to a close. I can't wait to see how Kopas is going to bring this story to a close.
renee_conoulty's review
4.0
This is book two in The Breadwinner Trilogy, a fast paced zombie apocalypse series. Haven is written in three parts. Part one pick up from where The Breadwinner left off and tells us how that group of people get to the town of Haven, where they meet up with another group of survivors. Part two tells the story of that second group of survivors, starting from the beginning of the outbreak to how they all came to be together in Haven. Part three continues the story after the two groups meet each other.
I found this book similar to the first one. It was just as fast paced and also had a mix of characters you liked and ones you hoped the zombies would eat. I engaged with this book a bit more than the first book - probably because it had a character I really hated. Stevie, if you're reading this, she'd better go down in the next book! You know who I'm talking about!
I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
I found this book similar to the first one. It was just as fast paced and also had a mix of characters you liked and ones you hoped the zombies would eat. I engaged with this book a bit more than the first book - probably because it had a character I really hated. Stevie, if you're reading this, she'd better go down in the next book! You know who I'm talking about!
I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
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