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The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
I'm pretty sure that's a shot of Milla Jovovich on the cover.
I'd put this on my To Read list back in Sept. 2010. I got around to listening to it a year and a half later, forgetting what it was about. It looked like another fairy/vampire/demons story. I haven't listened to one of those for awhile and figured it was time, though I wasn't prepared to be impressed.
It's actually about zombies. Actually, it is about the people who survive alongside the zombies 25 years after the zombie apocalypse has happened. They're called "meatskins", "slugs", and other fetching things, but they're zombies.
I so hate zombies. I hate zombie movies, zombie stories, zombie anything, really, though I'm always mistaken as someone who likes zombie miscellanea. I don't. I never have. I think zombies are stupid and boring...because they are. I was a little appalled at myself for having put a zombie story on my To Read list (and don't go looking at the zombie crap I've already read and yes, I did love World War Z but, again, it's about survival. And it is choc-full of handy tips. Don't judge me)
At any rate, right after I was done being irritated with myself over tricking myself into listening to a stupid zombie story, I was then glad that past me read enough about this story to know that it would be enjoyable and that I had put it on my list.
I was completely caught-up in this story. It is definitely less about the walking dead chasing people down and eating them, though their shambling selves make up the entire backdrop, and more about the hard-but-cherished life of a lone fifteen-year-old girl who has learned how to live in the only environment she's ever known. Even though she's supremely capable, she lives with guilt and doubt and some self-loathing. She's a restless soul who cannot settle down with other survivors and finds herself living as a nomad in the American south, meeting people who eke out a living in compounds and mansions, people who have hope for the future and plan to rebuild towns or maybe a new race, and people who want to kill her.
I liked Temple's voice, I liked how she handled herself, I liked that she was very capable, I liked that she tried to do the right thing, I like that she understood and accepted the world and her place in it, and I liked that even with all of that, she was flawed and that she took on too much personal responsibility for things that weren't hers. She was a good, strong, but also frustrating character and I appreciate that.
I'd put this on my To Read list back in Sept. 2010. I got around to listening to it a year and a half later, forgetting what it was about. It looked like another fairy/vampire/demons story. I haven't listened to one of those for awhile and figured it was time, though I wasn't prepared to be impressed.
It's actually about zombies. Actually, it is about the people who survive alongside the zombies 25 years after the zombie apocalypse has happened. They're called "meatskins", "slugs", and other fetching things, but they're zombies.
I so hate zombies. I hate zombie movies, zombie stories, zombie anything, really, though I'm always mistaken as someone who likes zombie miscellanea. I don't. I never have. I think zombies are stupid and boring...because they are. I was a little appalled at myself for having put a zombie story on my To Read list (and don't go looking at the zombie crap I've already read and yes, I did love World War Z but, again, it's about survival. And it is choc-full of handy tips. Don't judge me)
At any rate, right after I was done being irritated with myself over tricking myself into listening to a stupid zombie story, I was then glad that past me read enough about this story to know that it would be enjoyable and that I had put it on my list.
I was completely caught-up in this story. It is definitely less about the walking dead chasing people down and eating them, though their shambling selves make up the entire backdrop, and more about the hard-but-cherished life of a lone fifteen-year-old girl who has learned how to live in the only environment she's ever known. Even though she's supremely capable, she lives with guilt and doubt and some self-loathing. She's a restless soul who cannot settle down with other survivors and finds herself living as a nomad in the American south, meeting people who eke out a living in compounds and mansions, people who have hope for the future and plan to rebuild towns or maybe a new race, and people who want to kill her.
I liked Temple's voice, I liked how she handled herself, I liked that she was very capable, I liked that she tried to do the right thing, I like that she understood and accepted the world and her place in it, and I liked that even with all of that, she was flawed and that she took on too much personal responsibility for things that weren't hers. She was a good, strong, but also frustrating character and I appreciate that.