cashleykate 's review for:

The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell

3.5

dark emotional tense medium-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: Complicated

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Still on my zombie kick and found this in a list of books in that genre! I really enjoyed the narrative of this one, though I seemed to trail off a bit at times. The overall world is interesting and more established than some zombie novels that start at the beginning. And surviving is only part of the plot as the protagonist, Temple, first finds herself the target of a man whose brother she kills and then discovers purpose in returning a developmentally/intellectually disabled man, Morrie, home... from Georgia to Texas. 

I feel that the author put some suspense into details that were withheld from the reader, which was both interesting and frustrating-- but I enjoy more dramatic irony than others might. Overall, the most fascinating part of this book went deeply unexplored as the protagonist passed through an inbred family that had started injecting themselves with zombie... brain matter? I feel like fans of Resident Evil: Bioha