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676 reviews for:

Hearing Red

Nicole Maser

4.3 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous challenging 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: Yes

Saff is about to abandon her father's friends and head to a bunker when she meets two people, Tyler and Maddie. However, due to a zombie outbreak, they are trapped and have nowhere to go except a pharmacy.  Saff discovers that Tyler is going to become a zombie, so she kills him.

Maddie would have been able to get back to her family with Tyler's help, but since she is blind, she cannot navigate on her own. With Saff's help, they set off to get Maddie to her family.  What Maddie doesn't know is that Saff has a secret that she is keeping from her, and the last thing Saff needs is to fall for Maddie.

Saff is a person who we shouldn't fall in love with. With her background during the outbreak, she could have been using her medical degree to help people, but the more we learn about her father and his friends, who she spent most of her time with, I understand how she had to survive.

The book shows them as enemies to lovers, but I wouldn't have thought so when they first met as enemies because Saffy decided to get Maddie to get her items, and circumstances kept them together, and they became friendly.  I enjoyed them wanting to be close to each other, and the spice level is low. I enjoyed the characters, and it is a shame it is a one-book story.

I rated the book five stars just because I read it practically in under a day. There was nothing that annoyed me enough to drop the rating. I would recommend it to other people who love apocalyptic books.
adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous tense medium-paced
adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

I think I found a new niche I like. Lesbian zombie apocalypse. This was so good
adventurous emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Great romance for later Y/A and above, light sexual content (1 scene), enemies to lovers etc. Thoughtful disability representation and easy to listen to.