Zombie apocalypse? Yes please. It is no secret that if you show me a zombie book I’m going to pick it up and give it a read. My last zombie book was just 7 books ago. Please publishers, get cranking out more. This bibliophile has zombielust (like wanderlust but a strong desire to read zombie novels).

Anyone know what was the first zombie novel? I’m just curious.

This zombie book is set a couple of decades into the zombie-riddled future. The world is desolate, children are being born (but rarely), and meat puppets roam the landscape at will.

The book is told from the point of view of a 15 year old girl who wakes up one day and discovers a desiccated zombie on the shore of her abandoned island. Knowing that she is no longer safe, she starts to travel looking for safe passage. Along the way she finds communes, electrified mansions, and hill people who use zombie brains as a drug.

Temple has a sweet voice and a lot of killing in her soul. She has a simple way of viewing what is going on, but with a way that sees right to the brutal part of whatever is occurring. Whether it is keeping a zombie father locked in a basement because he is “sick,” or a man who tries to cheat her out of a bushel of berries, she knows right from wrong.

The balance between right and wrong is what is consistently discussed in the book (along with the slippery slop of beauty). Was the world really ‘right’ before the apocalypse? Is it ‘right’ to kill zombies? What is the ‘right’ and moral thing to do in a world that doesn’t act ‘right?’

This book is beautiful. It was kind of like was a 15 year old Salander (from the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) would be like if she was born into a zombie apocalypse. The destruction is amazing - like watching a firework.