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A review by heathbc
The Dead by Charlie Higson
4.0
“What use was all that love when the person wasn’t there no more? It just went bad.”
Wow, Higson did an awesome job following a new cast’s journey while having the reader make inferences about connections to the first novel’s characters.
Liked:
-Time period of just a few weeks after the disaster started
-Friendship that felt genuine between the two main boys
-The immune adult and POV of his thoughts
-A sicko that had the imagery of a Pez dispenser
-Gory imagery that surprised even this well-versed horror fan
-Building up the zombies to be more than they appear
-Parallels between Frederique and the cat
Disliked:
-Making an obvious stereotype of a character that came across as prejudiced and then killing him off without subverting the stereotype at all
-The 3 girls’ friendship and the way they put each other down
Wow, Higson did an awesome job following a new cast’s journey while having the reader make inferences about connections to the first novel’s characters.
Liked:
-Time period of just a few weeks after the disaster started
-Friendship that felt genuine between the two main boys
-The immune adult and POV of his thoughts
-A sicko that had the imagery of a Pez dispenser
-Gory imagery that surprised even this well-versed horror fan
-Building up the zombies to be more than they appear
-Parallels between Frederique and the cat
Disliked:
-Making an obvious stereotype of a character that came across as prejudiced and then killing him off without subverting the stereotype at all
-The 3 girls’ friendship and the way they put each other down