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rjdenney's review against another edition
2.0
I got bored.
I loved the story, but damn why did this book have to be 400 pages?
WHY? even if it would have been shorter it would still be boring. :/
I loved the story, but damn why did this book have to be 400 pages?
WHY? even if it would have been shorter it would still be boring. :/
ambeesbookishpages's review against another edition
5.0
Phoebe Kendal is your average american teenage girl with a crush, on a dead boy. Tommy Willams who died in a car crash along with his father is set out on a mission to make people understand the "living impared" a little bit better, so he joins the school football team. Karen Desone who commit suicide acts as if she is a normal person. She has no pauses in her speech, walks with out dragging her feet, sometimes can smell and eat things, and overall a fun person. (I would like to have her as my friend. LOL)Margi, Phoebe's best friend, who wears crazy things dosn't want to know the living impaired. Margi other friend Collete drowned in a lake a few years back and Margi thinks it is her falt. Adam Layman, star of the football team, popular person, and oh did I forget to mention he has a huge CRUSH on Phoebe.
Things start to get weird when they all join the undead studies at the hunter foundation. Pete Martsionburge who hates "zombies" with a living passion is out on a mission to kill every body in the undead studies even his best buddy Adam. So what happens in the end? Well you will have to read to find out.
Things start to get weird when they all join the undead studies at the hunter foundation. Pete Martsionburge who hates "zombies" with a living passion is out on a mission to kill every body in the undead studies even his best buddy Adam. So what happens in the end? Well you will have to read to find out.
stephxsu's review against another edition
4.0
They don't like to be called zombies. Or dead heads, or worm food, or whatever pejorative terms the "creative" people of the world are coming up with. They're differently biotic: American teens literally rising from the dead into some semblance of their former selves. Everyone is terrified of them. What are they, and why have they come back from the dead?
High school junior Phoebe doesn't share the world's qualms. In fact, she just might have a crush on Tommy Williams, a quietly powerful differently biotic boy who shocks all the students of Oakvale High when he tries out for the football team, just to prove that he can. Phoebe admires Tommy's guts, but there are people less happy with his actions, most notably Pete Martinsburg, fellow teammate and soul-crushing zombie-hater who just might do anything to stop the differently biotic from living a life that is not theirs to live.
Phoebe's best friend Adam is secretly in love with her, and thus finds it difficult to believe that she can like, well, a dead guy like Tommy Williams. But as Adam begins to learn about the plight of the differently biotic, the prejudices and difficulties they face, he realizes that maybe the only way he can help Phoebe be happy is by protecting Tommy... no matter the cost.
Wow! Daniel Waters creatively plugs into the typical YA reader's love for paranormal romance and ends up teaching us all a lesson about civil rights, prejudice, and tolerance. All of the characters are carefully constructed to be three-dimensional: readers can even empathize with the jerk Pete Martinsburg's tortured feelings towards zombies. I also appreciated the generous--and accurate!--details about sports (football, baseball, Frisbee) because that is not something I come across often enough in YA literature. While occasionally the lecturing about tolerance goes on for a page too long, overall GENERATION DEAD is a fun way of being enlightened about the issues regarding bigotry and prejudice.
High school junior Phoebe doesn't share the world's qualms. In fact, she just might have a crush on Tommy Williams, a quietly powerful differently biotic boy who shocks all the students of Oakvale High when he tries out for the football team, just to prove that he can. Phoebe admires Tommy's guts, but there are people less happy with his actions, most notably Pete Martinsburg, fellow teammate and soul-crushing zombie-hater who just might do anything to stop the differently biotic from living a life that is not theirs to live.
Phoebe's best friend Adam is secretly in love with her, and thus finds it difficult to believe that she can like, well, a dead guy like Tommy Williams. But as Adam begins to learn about the plight of the differently biotic, the prejudices and difficulties they face, he realizes that maybe the only way he can help Phoebe be happy is by protecting Tommy... no matter the cost.
Wow! Daniel Waters creatively plugs into the typical YA reader's love for paranormal romance and ends up teaching us all a lesson about civil rights, prejudice, and tolerance. All of the characters are carefully constructed to be three-dimensional: readers can even empathize with the jerk Pete Martinsburg's tortured feelings towards zombies. I also appreciated the generous--and accurate!--details about sports (football, baseball, Frisbee) because that is not something I come across often enough in YA literature. While occasionally the lecturing about tolerance goes on for a page too long, overall GENERATION DEAD is a fun way of being enlightened about the issues regarding bigotry and prejudice.
christiana's review against another edition
3.0
I still like Zombie Blondes better, even if I'm alone in my principles!
ladytiara's review against another edition
4.0
Generation Dead is a good example of why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The cover's campy vibe belies the serious and thought-provoking story inside. In Daniel Waters' novel, American teenagers are coming back from the dead. No one knows why this is happening, but the zombie (or living impaired as some prefer) population is on the rise. The administration of Oakvale High welcomes the undead teens, but not everyone in the school is thrilled to have them there, and the living-impaired kids don't have an easy time.
Goth girl Phoebe is fascinated by a new living-impaired arrival, Tommy. The idea of a living girl dating an undead boy is anathema to most people, but Phoebe can't seem to keep her mind off Tommy. Adam is an old friend of Phoebe’s, and his feelings have become more than friendly. He's a football player and when Tommy decides to try out for the team, Adam is in a difficult position, caught between wanting to help and protect Phoebe and feeling pressure from his teammates and coach to get rid of the new kid. Phoebe, Tommy, Adam, and a few other students, both living and non-living, join a school program run by the shadowy Hunter Foundation, which seems to be promoting zombie acceptance, but may have a hidden agenda.
Zombies are often used as a metaphor for societal issues, and Generation Dead follows in that tradition. The prejudice and issues that the undead teens face correspond closely to homophobia, xenophobia, and racism. The zombies have no legal rights, and most people don't want them in their schools or their towns. Some in the zombie community want to push for integration (like attending classes with the living and trying out for the football team), while some are starting to become militant against the living.
Where this book differs from most zombie fiction is in its portrayal of the zombies: the undead teens aren't the usual shuffling, brain-eating-obsessed zombies of popular culture. The living-impaired characters don't eat the living. Some of the teens, like Tommy and Karen, are very high functioning and could almost pass for living where it not for the pallor of their skin. Others, like Colette, Phoebe's old friend, are at the lower end of functionality, but they're still able to attend school.
Generation Dead is a fascinating look at how the newly back from the dead adjust to the living world, and how the living world reacts to the dead returning. It's an absorbing and provocative spin on an old story, and I will definitely be reading the next installments in the series.
Goth girl Phoebe is fascinated by a new living-impaired arrival, Tommy. The idea of a living girl dating an undead boy is anathema to most people, but Phoebe can't seem to keep her mind off Tommy. Adam is an old friend of Phoebe’s, and his feelings have become more than friendly. He's a football player and when Tommy decides to try out for the team, Adam is in a difficult position, caught between wanting to help and protect Phoebe and feeling pressure from his teammates and coach to get rid of the new kid. Phoebe, Tommy, Adam, and a few other students, both living and non-living, join a school program run by the shadowy Hunter Foundation, which seems to be promoting zombie acceptance, but may have a hidden agenda.
Zombies are often used as a metaphor for societal issues, and Generation Dead follows in that tradition. The prejudice and issues that the undead teens face correspond closely to homophobia, xenophobia, and racism. The zombies have no legal rights, and most people don't want them in their schools or their towns. Some in the zombie community want to push for integration (like attending classes with the living and trying out for the football team), while some are starting to become militant against the living.
Where this book differs from most zombie fiction is in its portrayal of the zombies: the undead teens aren't the usual shuffling, brain-eating-obsessed zombies of popular culture. The living-impaired characters don't eat the living. Some of the teens, like Tommy and Karen, are very high functioning and could almost pass for living where it not for the pallor of their skin. Others, like Colette, Phoebe's old friend, are at the lower end of functionality, but they're still able to attend school.
Generation Dead is a fascinating look at how the newly back from the dead adjust to the living world, and how the living world reacts to the dead returning. It's an absorbing and provocative spin on an old story, and I will definitely be reading the next installments in the series.
rachelmfcoles's review against another edition
5.0
Loved this book!!! I can't wait until "Kiss of Life" comes out!!!
hauntedantiqueshop's review
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Is it good? No!!! But this is a book I read in middle school so I reread it for purely nostalgic reasons and I’m glad I did. Heals the inner child just a bit to go back to something you enjoyed. And apparently there’s two sequels?! Had no clue but I will be trying to read them asap. I personally think Tina Belcher would really love this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Suicide and Hate crime
Minor: Car accident, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Child death, Bullying, Body horror, and Abandonment
haleyelisereads's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 Stars
"We make deals with the devil every day, metaphorically."
Generation Dead is not like most books, it takes on a paranormal that most books do not..zombies. No one can explain why this is happening..scientists, teachers, parents, no one knows how this started or why..but for whatever reason teenagers that die are somehow coming back to life..although these zombies/ differently biotic/ living impaired/undead/ etc are physically different looking with their very white skin, and mentally different as it takes them longer to speak and are slower with walking then living teenagers..they still try to live normal lives as everyone else, they go to school, they party, and they try out for the football team. With these zombies being so different then everyone else there are plenty (majority) of people that want them gone..dead for good…and the scary part? Zombies are a new type of living things..they don’t have rights..so to kill them or torture them is completely legal.
Phoebe is the goth girl at school, although she and her goth friend Margi are also looked at different with their black clothes she feels she almost might know how the zombies must feel. Phoebe is starting to have feelings for someone she is not yet ready to admit to the world about…it’s not Adam her star football player best friend who has secretly been in love with her for years..It’s not Pete who wants all the zombies dead dead ..it’s Tommy..and Tommy is dead…as their connection to one another grows stronger, Tommy and all the other undeads lives are put in even more danger….
Although I only gave this book a 2.5 star rating it is only because, when I went into reading this book I went into it thinking it was going to be a romance..but in reality it had very little romance…and right when things started to heat up and get good the book ended! My only complaint about this book besides the lack of romance was the characters..to me the majority of the characters had something that bugged me..Phoebe is annoying for how oblivious she is of Adams feeling for her, Margi is annoying in every single aspect of the word, Pete is a total tool, and Tommy is confusing and kinda creeps me out..the only characters I found myself really liking is Adam, Colette and Karen I got to say I did love the ending though, it had a nice twist which I did not expect to happen at all, leaving me wanting the next one insanely bad!
WAIT-another thing that bugged me about this book is the cover! It has nothing to do with the book! There isnt an undead cheerleader! URGH!
"We make deals with the devil every day, metaphorically."
Generation Dead is not like most books, it takes on a paranormal that most books do not..zombies. No one can explain why this is happening..scientists, teachers, parents, no one knows how this started or why..but for whatever reason teenagers that die are somehow coming back to life..although these zombies/ differently biotic/ living impaired/undead/ etc are physically different looking with their very white skin, and mentally different as it takes them longer to speak and are slower with walking then living teenagers..they still try to live normal lives as everyone else, they go to school, they party, and they try out for the football team. With these zombies being so different then everyone else there are plenty (majority) of people that want them gone..dead for good…and the scary part? Zombies are a new type of living things..they don’t have rights..so to kill them or torture them is completely legal.
Phoebe is the goth girl at school, although she and her goth friend Margi are also looked at different with their black clothes she feels she almost might know how the zombies must feel. Phoebe is starting to have feelings for someone she is not yet ready to admit to the world about…it’s not Adam her star football player best friend who has secretly been in love with her for years..It’s not Pete who wants all the zombies dead dead ..it’s Tommy..and Tommy is dead…as their connection to one another grows stronger, Tommy and all the other undeads lives are put in even more danger….
Although I only gave this book a 2.5 star rating it is only because, when I went into reading this book I went into it thinking it was going to be a romance..but in reality it had very little romance…and right when things started to heat up and get good the book ended! My only complaint about this book besides the lack of romance was the characters..to me the majority of the characters had something that bugged me..Phoebe is annoying for how oblivious she is of Adams feeling for her, Margi is annoying in every single aspect of the word, Pete is a total tool, and Tommy is confusing and kinda creeps me out..the only characters I found myself really liking is Adam, Colette and Karen I got to say I did love the ending though, it had a nice twist which I did not expect to happen at all, leaving me wanting the next one insanely bad!
WAIT-another thing that bugged me about this book is the cover! It has nothing to do with the book! There isnt an undead cheerleader! URGH!
gg1213's review against another edition
4.0
Watch my 2011 review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGD_TU_AQ88