(Yuck.) But it was really about more than that, I thought. This was a good book for me to read as my first zombie-pocalypse book because yeah, there were zombies who feasted on human flesh in it. Still not my super-favorite thing, but that’s certainly not the fault of THIS IS NOT A TEST. I always think of zombies as gory, but Courtney Summers’ THIS IS NOT A TEST basically showed me why that’s narrow thinking, and proved to me that I haven’t been giving zombie books enough credit for being AWESOME. But something starts gushing blood and flinging brains all over the place? Nuh uh. I can handle suspense, I can handle being scared, I can handle being mentally screwed with. I’m not sure I could tell you why aside from the fact that the one thing that bothers me the most is gore. I’m not usually in the zombie fan club, friends. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to? As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live.īut as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life- and death-inside. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. Genre: Horror YA, Contemporary YA, Zombies
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