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The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
What a fantastic little zombie novel. This is one of those books that rises above its genre material, like Christopher Buehlman's excellent [b:Those Across the River|10772903|Those Across the River|Christopher Buehlman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311703498s/10772903.jpg|15684614].
You can tell Alden Bell writes non genre books, and I'd say this one compares well to Cormac McCarthy's [b:The Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320606344s/6288.jpg|3355573], although this one is a lot less bleak than the McCarthy's novel. It has a similar theme of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world travelling to another place.
I enjoyed Bell's take on the world, it was fresh and new. Love that his protagonist was not bogged down with memories of the past because Temple was actually born into the new zombie world and so has never known a world without them. She doesn't view zombies as evil creatures that destroyed civilization but rather just a part of life -- another dangerous animal like a bear or a wolf but ultimately she isn't terrified of them or trying to set up some semblance of an existence that resembles that of life pre-zombie.
It was interesting to see this novel almost as a travelogue through a zombie infested America through fresh eyes. In fact, the country is almost as much a protagonist in this tale as Temple herself. As she travels through and describes the buildings she sees and the people she meets as well as places she wishes she could go, you feel the same wanderlust that Temple herself feels, a desire to go and see all the 'wonders' of the world before they are reclaimed by time and the earth.
There's a lot of action in this book - Temple's no shy flower scared of everything, but a capable young woman who is just as dangerous if not more dangerous than the teeming masses of zombies. Bell keeps the pace moving along quite well with lots of action between the ruminations to keep zombie lovers satisfied.
I highly suggest this to anyone who likes a good post apocalyptic novel or zombie novel but want something a little different from the norm. Definitely a very satisfying read.
You can tell Alden Bell writes non genre books, and I'd say this one compares well to Cormac McCarthy's [b:The Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320606344s/6288.jpg|3355573], although this one is a lot less bleak than the McCarthy's novel. It has a similar theme of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world travelling to another place.
I enjoyed Bell's take on the world, it was fresh and new. Love that his protagonist was not bogged down with memories of the past because Temple was actually born into the new zombie world and so has never known a world without them. She doesn't view zombies as evil creatures that destroyed civilization but rather just a part of life -- another dangerous animal like a bear or a wolf but ultimately she isn't terrified of them or trying to set up some semblance of an existence that resembles that of life pre-zombie.
It was interesting to see this novel almost as a travelogue through a zombie infested America through fresh eyes. In fact, the country is almost as much a protagonist in this tale as Temple herself. As she travels through and describes the buildings she sees and the people she meets as well as places she wishes she could go, you feel the same wanderlust that Temple herself feels, a desire to go and see all the 'wonders' of the world before they are reclaimed by time and the earth.
There's a lot of action in this book - Temple's no shy flower scared of everything, but a capable young woman who is just as dangerous if not more dangerous than the teeming masses of zombies. Bell keeps the pace moving along quite well with lots of action between the ruminations to keep zombie lovers satisfied.
I highly suggest this to anyone who likes a good post apocalyptic novel or zombie novel but want something a little different from the norm. Definitely a very satisfying read.