Weekly Summary - Nov. 16, 2013

  

November 10, 2013 - November 16, 2013

This is a new segment in which Tori recounts the past week on her and Lindsay's blog. Tori tries to write about both girls equally, therefore she types in third person. If it sounds awkward, she's sorry.
 

 

 

So the Divergent movie poster was released this week (Tori thinks; she's not sure). But even if it wasn't this week, she still saw it this week, so it counts. Also, she saw the character posters for Tris, Four, Christina, Max, Peter, Eric (JAI COURTNERY, HELLO), and Tori. They're so cool, in her opinion. She's so excited for this movie to come out next year! Let's not forget the trailer.

 

 

So yes. Tori's very excited for this movie to come out. So many movies coming out in 2014. So hard to keep track!

 

 

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 Tori's Reads

  

 

Tori's Currently Reading

  

 

Lindsay's Currently Reading

 

 

 

This section really doesn't have much to do about book, but that's okay! This will just be our favorites like makeup, books (oh look, books), music, apps, etc. Tori might even posts some pictures of her collection of phone cases if she particularly likes one for the week.

 

Music:

• You'll Think of Me by Keith Urban (Tori)
• Afraid by The Neighbourhood (Tori)
• A Town Like This by Cady Groves (Tori)
• 23 by a bunch of people Tori can't remember (Tori)
• That's My Kind of Night by Luke Bryan (Tori. As you can see, she's sort of in a country phase)

Books:

•  Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Apps:

• Name Dice. Because honestly, Tori always needs names for her story characters, but can never think of good enough names. This app rolls name dice which really helps her with new characters and their names.
• Overdrive. If you have a library card and a phone and/or tablet, then you should get this app. You can basically just borrow ebooks from your library (if your library is supported. Some apparently aren't, yet). It's convenient.
• Goodreads. Tori's had this app for a while, but when she got the newest update for her iPhone, she loved it. It's optimized for iOS 7, and the new look and feel of the app is great. (I love it, Tori says.)

 

 

Tori:

I plan on reading three books next week. They're library books from Overdrive, so I really need to get these read before they expire.

 



  

 

Other than books, there's also NaNoWriMo. God, NaNoWriMo is hard, and it makes me sort of want to cry. 50,000 words in one month seems impossible, but I did it last November, and I did it in April this year, so I can do it again. In April, I was ahead by like 10,000-20,000 words by April 16th, but today I haven't even reached my word count goal of 26,666 words yet, oops. It's just so hard. You guys should go and be my buddy on NaNoWriMo if you're participating as well. You can find me here! Or you can read my NaNoWriMo story on Wattpad here. It's a rough draft, so no making fun of me, haha.

 

And other than to be read books and NaNoWriMo, look out for some new reviews! My reviews for Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Allegiant should be up this coming week as well as a Waiting on Wednesday. Maybe even an Has This Ever Happened to You? because for some reason the last five chapters in my copy of Unwind are missing. How does that even happen? So I guess I haven't actually finished Unwind yet even though I've reviewed it. I got spoiled on the ending, and my thoughts are still the same, so I won't be changing my review, but I'm pissed because I'm missing the last five chapters. You can't just not have the ending. So I'm going to Barnes & Noble tomorrow to see if they'll give me a new copy. I don't have my receipt, so I doubt it, but one can hope. It's still in perfect condition. I'm OCD about my books. This is the only time that has ever come in handy.

 

Oh, yes, and Lindsay was busy, so she couldn't contribute to this. 







The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Pages: 419

Release Date: 9/3/13 

Publisher: Little, Brown Books

Rating: ☆☆☆

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.

 

Uh, this book was...something else. I did like it a lot, but there was just one thing that really pissed me off about the whole book. It was the fact that Tana, Gavriel, or some other character would be in the face of danger and the whole scene would be very intense, but then all of a sudden the chapter would end (which is okay) and then the next chapter will be a flashback.

Like, no. This is not okay. This is not okay. It's just simply not okay.

And okay, there was another thing that really pissed me off, but this sort of has to do with my previous fact.

I just really hated the way that this book was so slow. I bet if all those flashbacks were cut out (except for the one about how Gavriel's girl, you know, and how he became a vampire. Those were necessary), the book would be so much better, and the plot would flow so much more nicely. The flashbacks just created such a rocky atmosphere for the novel, and it didn't go well with the rest of the book.

I mean, no offense, Pearl, but if your sister is having a moment with Gavriel, I could really care less about you sitting on the couch, watching TV. Like really. I don't.

Anyway, other than those two facts, this book was decent. Gavriel was the only thing that saved this book from getting three stars on my part. Gavriel was just so hot, and I loved him. Of course it's natural for me to love the main guy character, but still. His background was genuinely sad and it made me feel for him, which is a big factor in characters to me.

I felt equally bad for Tana...the first half of the book. The second half was literally Tana just complaining about how horrible her life was because her mom died. Like, okay, girl, we've been through this. Your mom died. You don't need to relive the moment over and over again.

It was just small things like that that really got to me by the end of the book. Still, I managed to plow through it in one day, which says quite a bit about it. This is definitely a book that I'll read again someday. Who knows? Maybe I'll like it more after I reread it!

If you like hot guys, vampires, interesting characters, or all of the above, then this is definitely the book for you! It was a nice twist on vampires, and I was grateful from the switch from sparkly vampires to raging Cold humans.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer + The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Series: Mara Dyer #1
Pages: 466
Release Date: September 27th, 2011
Publisher: Simon and Schushter
Rating: ★★★★★

Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.She’s wrong.

Sometimes it takes you over a year to get around to reading a book you bought. Sometimes it also takes your best friend telling you it's good. But in the end, it usually takes self motivation to read all the books on your bookshelf that you haven't read.

I can't believe I put off such an amazing, jaw-dropping book. This gave me the chills and even that couldn't make me put it down. My life was on hold - when I was interrupted while reading the juicy words I would throw a fit. You can't just stop reading a book like this. Even food and bathroom breaks must wait!

And now onto Noah.

Noah. Noah. Noah. Noah. Noah.

This is a video of me jumping on my bed to express my love for Noah:

 

Series: Mara Dyer #2
Pages: 544
Release Date: Feburary 28th, 2013
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Rating: ★★★★★

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalized isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in constant fear that she might hurt him. She needs to learn how to control her power, and fast! Together, Mara and Noah must try and figure out exactly how Jude survived when the asylum collapsed, and how he knows so much about her strange ability...before anyone else ends up dead!

This book ended with some really big no-nos. And by that, I mean with some GIGANTIC cliffhangers that made me want to smash my skull into concrete while I impatiently for the next book in the series. I didn't believe Tori when she said the second book was better than the first, but my God, was it ever.

This book. This book. If you haven't read it yet, or the series, for that matter, please, for my sake read it. I'm so in love with this series that I bought the second book right after the first and I'm truly in love.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Series: Unwind #1
Pages: 310
Release Date: June 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Rating: ★★★★★

Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I just finished this book, and I swear to god this was seriously one of the best books I've read in a long while. It just flowed so nicely as if I wasn't even spending my time reading a book! It was like a movie in my head! It's so hard to find books so beautifully crafted like Neal Shusterman's Unwind, but hey, I found one, and I'm so happy that I did.

That first thing that stood out to me most about Unwind was the way that each chapter was a different point of view. Now, this usually pisses me off, but this book was written in third person. And it was so wonderfully written in third person that I sometimes forgot that it was in third and not first person. No that says something about this book. So I can sum this point up to the writing was just marvelous, and I loved it so much. Why did this have to be so awesome? Just so, so, so awesome.

The second thing that struck me as amazing about Unwind were the characters. All of them were just so stunning, and raw, and real, and I just loved them to pieces (uh, pun not intended). Connor, Risa, Lev, Roland--they all played an important role in this book, and they all played their role well. I honestly didn't find one flat character. The character with the most personality had to be Lev though. His thoughts were just so interesting and his choices reflected the events in his life so amazingly that I just can't even deal right now. Seriously.

Connor though. He was my favorite. I don't know why, but he was such a strong character--not as strong as Lev, but near that much--and his independent nature made me like him even more. The only thing I didn't like about him was his relationship with Risa. I felt like their relationship, although not insta-love, was hashed out of necessity and not emotions. I mean, the minute he meets her, he starts having feelings for her. After he left his girlfriend, Ariana, who is a bitch, by the way. I just wasn't buying it.

And at the end, when they were making out in the bathroom stall like long lost lovers? Sorry. No. I laughed.

But obviously that wasn't too big of a deal for me. The romance wasn't a prominent point in the novel, and so it's easy for me to banish it to the back of my mind.

Something that I can't banish to the back of my mind though are the grammar mistakes throughout my printed version of Unwind. I don't know if it was just this particular print or if it's the copy editor or whatever, but I found so many errors in this book that I wanted to smash my head against my desk (I read the majority of this book at school). I am a die hard language person, and the fact that a published book had so many mistakes pissed me the fuck off.

So yeah. Other than Connor and Risa's relationship and the grammar, I loved this book so much, and I think that the five stars are well-deserved. The idea in this book is unique (to me, at least), and that's another thing that I loved about this book. I would recommend this to almost anybody. Even if you're not too keen on the whole dystopian aspect, Unwind barely feels like any of the dystopians I've read in the past. It feels real.

And I think the best--and maybe creepiest--part about Unwind is that it's so realistic that it could actually happen.

I'm just going to let you think about that for a while.

(On a somewhat more erratic note, THAT ENDING. WHAT THE HELL. WHY DID IT END LIKE THAT. WHY. NOW I NEED THE NEXT BOOK. BUT BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING. I ALSO NEED TO SAVE MY MONEY FOR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING. I MEAN I ALREADY CAVED AND PREORDERED WORLD AFTER BUT COME ON. I CAN'T BE SPENDING ALL MY MONEY ON BOOKS BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING. BUT OMG I NEED THE NEXT BOOK. CONNOR THOUGH. CONNOR. CONNOR. CONNOR. Okay. I'm done.)

Dark Companion by Marta Acosta

Pages: 368
Release Date: July 3rd, 2012
Publisher: Macmillan
Rating: ★★

Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. There, for the first time, Jane finds herself accepted by a group of friends. She even starts tutoring the headmistress’s gorgeous son, Lucien. Things seem too good to be true.They are.The more she learns about Birch Grove’s recent past, the more Jane comes to suspect that there is something sinister going on. Why did the wife of a popular teacher kill herself? What happened to the former scholarship student, whose place Jane took? Why does Lucien’s brother, Jack, seem to dislike her so much?As Jane begins to piece together the answers to the puzzle, she must find out why she was brought to Birch Grove and what she would risk to stay there..because even the brightest people make terrible decisions when they are offered the things they desire most.

I'm taking a deep breath right now as I prepare to write this. In fact, I kind of feel like I'm suffocating. I want to loosen my belt but there's no hole to go to next. Sigh.

I had high expectations for this book. Maybe not expectation per say, but I was excited. So excited. I couldn't find this book anywhere in stores and Tori ended up mailing it to me, and thank goodness she did, because I think I would have from there on out called this book the book that got away.

The premise of this book was well thought out. But I thought that the author carried out the idea in a way that made it seem like I was reading two books merged together. It was like Jane, the main character, and her past life were one book, and her life at Birch Grove was another. And maybe that's what Marta Acosta intended.

In Jane's old life, she lived in a group home in the drug infested streets where if somebody screamed, nobody went to find out why. But in Birch Grove, she was among the rich, perfect students that attended the school and the good looking sons of the headmistresses. And here's where I encountered my first few problems.

The way some of the 'gangsters' at home talked was so stereotypical that if they were supposed to be threatening, they made me roll my eyes. I would be offended if I were a gangster and read that. Honestly, it made me cringe. And they called Jane 'Mouse Girl' or 'Mousie' because she reminded them of a mouse? What?

The second thing - and probably the second biggest issue I had next to the fact of the there's too much going on this feels like I'm reading two books is that Birch Grove is an all girls school that doesn't have boarding. No, all the girls go home to their families and houses at night. Except for Jane. Instead, Jane stays in a small cottage that used to belong to the groundskeeper (where's the new one stay or put the gardening stuff, anyways) all by herself, right next to the school and down a creepy path to the headmistresses house. She. Lives. By. Herself. In. A. Cottage. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Woods.

I don't like this.

For my last rant, and caution readers, because here's the big spoiler of the book: The headmistresses family are not vampires. No, they are 'allergic' to the light and need blood because 'they have a rare disease that requires them to drink blood.'

I really don't like this.

So to spare you my hands smashing on my keyboard, I will leave you with this: The book wasn't that bad when I read it, and it did creep me out all the way through, which I loved. However I can only remember the negatives. I apologize for complaining about this book, but this is what happens when you fall in love with a book before you read it.

Obsidian + Onyx + Obsession by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Series: Lux #1

Pages: 335
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Rating: ★★★★

Starting over sucks.
When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.
And then he opened his mouth.
Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens.
The hot alien living next door marks me.
You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.
If I don't kill him first, that is.

Uh, honestly, this book was like crack cocaine. I read it in two days. I would've finished it in one, but school was the next day, and we all know how school gets in the way of my raging reading habits. Well, other than that, I loved this book to pieces. Looking back on reading this, I wish I didn't enjoy it as much as I did, but for some reason I still liked it.

This book was basically just about a teen girl named Katy fawning over her sexy alien neighbor Daemon. There's no plot, really. It's a very mindless read, and it's easy to get through. If you're wanting a fast, simple read with a hot alien, read this then.

 

Series: Lux #2

Pages: 366

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Rating: ★★★★

Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…
Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.
Something worse than the Arum has come to town…
The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.
But then everything changes…
I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?
No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies….

 

Okay, to be completely honest, I haven't read any reviews of this book. I know that once I read reviews nitpicking Armentrout's series, I'm going to being nitpicking Armentrout's series. And that's just something that I'm not prepared to do. Lesbihonest here you guys, Daemon is a fucking beast, and I love him so much. There's just something about mindless love that gets me, especially when it's done right. I have to admit though that these books would suck if it weren't for Armentrout's writing/romance. I mean it's basically a repeat of Twilight...but three million times better. 

Although I feel compelled to say that I still think the name 'Luxen' for these light aliens is a little bit corny and unrealistic. I mean, why would aliens from three hundred billion light years away have a Latin name? Sorry, nope. 

But still. LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH. DAEMON. OH GOD. DAEMON. BABY. DAEMON, BABY. 

I need the next book. Good thing I just downloaded it, ahahaha, I have problems. But like, guys, honestly, this book is such fluff. If you like fluff, then go for it. 

 

Pages: 275
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Rating: ★★★

This is a stand alone novel that is an adult spin-off of the Lux Series You do not need to read a Lux book to read Obsession and vice versa.
He’s arrogant, domineering, and... To. Die. For.
Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.
Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something... unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret.
Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he’s doing the unthinkable—breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life… or is it Hunter?

Uh, I honestly didn't even read the summary, so I had no idea that this was an adult spin-off of the Lux series. If I had known that, I probably wouldn't have read it. I had a pedestal in my mind for Armentrout where she could write hot romance without adding sex to the mix, but after reading this, I was disappointed. I didn't want to read sex in this book. I wanted to read about two people--human and Arum--falling in love. This book displayed instalove, and I disliked that a lot.

Serena (I had to look at the summary for the name. I didn't even remember it) and Hunter have nothing in common, and the only reason they were brought together was because Hunter was forced to protect her. And Serena and Hunter only embarked in a sexual relationship because they're sexually attracted to each other. So when they pop the l word out, it was extremely unbelievable.

I just didn't like this book as much. The only reason I gave it three stars was because of Hunter. Even though he was a callous little bitch, he was a hot callous little bitch. 

Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen

Series: Living with the Dead #1
Pages: 244
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Publisher: Orbit
Rating: ★★★

A heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.

Meet Sarah and David.

Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things - the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fact that their counselor, Dr. Kelly, is ripping out her previous client's throat.

Meet the Zombies.

Now, Sarah and David are fighting for survival in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But, just because there are zombies, doesn't mean your other problems go away. If the zombies don't eat their brains, they might just kill each other.

 

There are only three things that Married With Zombies has got going for it--humor, zombies, and David. Other than that the characters were pretty generic and the ending wasn't as great as it could've been. Everything leading up to the end was great, until the actual end. This book probably could've managed to get a four star rating out of me if it hadn't been for that ending. 

Married With Zombies was just action-packed and fun-filled. There was constant action, and zombies were popping up everywhere, and the time it took for the infection to spread was fairly reasonable. The other thing I absolutely adored about this book was its humor. Seriously. I would read an autobiography by this author (if she's as funny in real life as she is in this book) because there were just so many modern-day references, and I loved it. Usually I don't like references to modern stuff, but in this case it just made it all the more hilarious. The last thing that I absolutely loved was David. I loved his laid back attitude. He just wanted to go through life and make it the best he possibly could. His too-cool-for-you attitude added a splash of fun into the novel.

Now for the things I didn't like. Wow, this is going to be quite the list. Good thing the good things outshines the bad a lot otherwise this review would be a one star review. 

Firstly, I didn't like Sarah. At all. She was so annoying. She was a neurotic neat freak (until the zombie brains were splattered onto her white blouse for the third time) that constantly nagged David and was always on his case. Honestly, I didn't blame her one bit for wanting to divorce her. She was just too uptight. I also didn't like Sarah's relationship with David. At first, I understood why she wouldn't like David's sister. I didn't blame her for not liking David's sister. And once we met David's sister, I understood her feelings even more. But at the end, when all hell broke loose, I completely lost sight of my understanding of their (nonexistent) relationship. I have to side with David on this one and say that Sarah didn't seem to try too hard to be nice with his sister. 

Also, the way the beginning started off was great, but once it got into chapter two, I was like yeah, no. I have this problem with every zombie book that starts off with no zombies and then--BOOM--in chapter two there are three billion zombies. Literally. How in the world can Sarah and David (no forgetting Amanda and the Asian girl who saves their ass and then tries to spring a knife on Sarah) just jump into the zombie routine so quickly without fault? No offense, but it just seems like Sarah would end of dead. She's a neat freak and needs to keep things in order. In a zombie apocalypse, there is no order. Honestly, it just seems like she's sort of weak in the beginning, but then all of a sudden zombies start popping up and she becomes this hardass. David is more of the survivor type, you know? This wasn't a huge issue since this is basically in every book (and I can't exactly be mad at this and call it wrong, because I don't know what would happen in a real zombie apocalypse since we're all, in fact, human) but still. Sarah sure does learn how to use a gun pretty quick in one night, doesn't she? 

Most of my problems are with Sarah, you'll learn quickly. 

This wasn't really a huge issue for me either since this was a short read for me and I wasn't too serious about it, but the 2D characters. Seriously. The only two names I remembered were David and Amanda. I didn't even remember the protagonist's name. That's sad. Here's a summary of why I thought these characters were very 2D and cliched. 

Sarah - Had no soul
Amanda - Dumb as a brick then all of a sudden becomes as smart as ever. Like what.
Asian Girl Who's Name Escapes Me - Typical Asian girl that is all independent and shit. Like fuck no. If I was offered to go on a little road trip with adults and get away from my dead parent's and boyfriend's bodies, I'd say hell yes and wouldn't let them retract their offer. 
Conrad Or Whatever The Hell His Name Was - He was cool until the very end. 
David's Sister Or Whatever Her Name Was - Just didn't like her. Because seriously. Wow. She's the typical older sibling that had their life all figured out with the younger sibling that was a mess. Sorry. I just wasn't feeling it. And then the very last part before the very, very last part. Yeah, no. Again, not feeling it. 

Lastly, the ending. Like fuck no, okay. Just fuck no. Petersen just totally ruined her whole book with the ending. I don't know how to explain my anger at the ending with you guys without completely spoiling this book for you. I mean, it's not really a large spoiler, but you know. Let's just leave it with do not expect great things with the ending because nothing is great about it whatsoever. 

Nevertheless, I'm still going to read the second book, haha. Petersen's writing is hilarious, and I do want to see what the zombie apocalypse brings David. (I also hope that Sarah dies in the second book. That would be cool. Sorry, Petersen. I just didn't like her. But don't feel offended. Rarely do I ever like main female characters. I'm a h8r.)