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The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
So I should note, first off, that this book is solidly 4 1/2 stars, but it was closer to 5 than it was 4. It would've been a solid 5 if it hadn't been for the obnoxious mutant interlude.
This book clearly takes some notes from The Road, but becomes its own fairly solid creature from very nearly the beginning. See, there are zombies (do we ever find out why? Nope. Doesn't matter. But. Digression.) And there's a 15-year-old girl named Temple who has a knife and a couple guns and a worldweariness that she doesn't deserve. And she soldiers through this zombified wasteland, attempts to do the right thing, constantly pays lip service towards being a pragmatist, and decidedly isn't, even though she'd never admit it. Her sentiment binds up her destiny, which is bound with a dark, dangerous man named Moses Todd (one of my favorite new characters; anytime he's on the page, he's absolutely spellbinding) and with a mentally handicapped mute. She's trying to get Maury to safety, and Moses is trying to kill her. Along the way, there's Southern gentry, hunters who have figured out how to eat the zombies, mutants (the weak portion of the book), dates with sheltered 15-year-old boys, falling in love with a man we'd say is too old for our protagonist, a secret that drives everything, sparse prose, and even sparser dialogue.
Of course, that's what's on the page. There's a world, though, between what's on the page and what's going on, and that's what you're going to need to read this book to discover. Like the best stories, I can't even hope to sum it up for you. I can only recommend that you read it and say that it will almost definitely be worth your time, if you want to read something that will make you think.
This book clearly takes some notes from The Road, but becomes its own fairly solid creature from very nearly the beginning. See, there are zombies (do we ever find out why? Nope. Doesn't matter. But. Digression.) And there's a 15-year-old girl named Temple who has a knife and a couple guns and a worldweariness that she doesn't deserve. And she soldiers through this zombified wasteland, attempts to do the right thing, constantly pays lip service towards being a pragmatist, and decidedly isn't, even though she'd never admit it. Her sentiment binds up her destiny, which is bound with a dark, dangerous man named Moses Todd (one of my favorite new characters; anytime he's on the page, he's absolutely spellbinding) and with a mentally handicapped mute. She's trying to get Maury to safety, and Moses is trying to kill her. Along the way, there's Southern gentry, hunters who have figured out how to eat the zombies, mutants (the weak portion of the book), dates with sheltered 15-year-old boys, falling in love with a man we'd say is too old for our protagonist, a secret that drives everything, sparse prose, and even sparser dialogue.
Of course, that's what's on the page. There's a world, though, between what's on the page and what's going on, and that's what you're going to need to read this book to discover. Like the best stories, I can't even hope to sum it up for you. I can only recommend that you read it and say that it will almost definitely be worth your time, if you want to read something that will make you think.