Author: Brooke Archer
Genre: YA
Tropes: Dystopian / Apocalypse, Second Chance, Found Family
Series: N/A
Pages: 331
Published: April 2nd, 2024
Format: ebook (libby), audiobook (audible)
Started: 06-15-2024
Finished: 06-29-2024
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synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Mara is dead—mostly. Infected with a virus that brought the dead back to life and the world to its knees, she wakes up in a facility to learn a treatment for the disease has been found. No longer a Tick, Mara is placed in an experimental resettlement program. But her recovery is complicated by her destination: she’s sent to live with the best friend she hasn’t seen since the world ended—and since their first and only kiss.
Seventeen-year-old Rory is alive—barely. With impaired mobility from an injury and a dead sister, Rory’s nightmares are just as monstrous as the Ticks that turned her former best friend. Even after the Island—one of a handful of surviving communities—rebuilds itself, Rory is prepared for the Ticks to return at any time. She never expected them to come in the form of the only girl she’s ever loved.
As the girls struggle with their pasts and the people they’ve become, and with the Island’s fragile peace in the balance, Rory and Mara must lean on each other to survive—or risk losing the girl they love all over again.
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- great sapphic zombie book to add to my collection
- loved that it was different from any other zombie / post apocalypse book I’ve read before ‐ actually having a cure for the virus was an interesting concept
- I loved Mara’s character ‐ she was very docile and understanding of her family / friends’ emotions for a teenager
- Rory on the other hand was kind of annoying at first for not accepting Mara as a real person instead of just another zombie (which is understandable but she did it in an annoying way) ‐ her attitude changed somewhat quickly and even before then you could still tell she cared about Mara even when she pretended not to
- Great writing style ‐ audiobook narrators had nice voices for all the characters
- While this is YA it was a lot more graphic than I thought it would be ‐ the violence was pretty detailed and with limbs getting ripped off children & shit
- Hated the villains in this w/ a passion ‐ also ppl who blindly follow others w/o thinking for themselves pmo so bad ‐ I was heated and stressed out throughout the back half of this ngl
- Would read again
noted & quoted
- “Nothing ever ends” ‐ Rory
- Mara and Rory @ the school
- Their first kiss
- Mallory getting arrested
- Mara biting someones ear off
- Mara breaking Carters arm
- Mara curing Rory from the virus
