This Is Not A Book

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This is not a book about battles, this is a book about survival and all we're ready to do to survive. Of course, I also have to mention that one of the characters is Asian! Cary Chen, the stoner-turned-de facto leader, is a complicated, non-stereotypical character. Thank you, Courtney Summers, for that. And because I like to be thorough, I went ahead and mentally cast him. she grows so much as a character, and it is painful and sad and you just want to be there with her, holding her throughout it all. not that she'd let you.

and this. the ramifications of the last two sentences in this quote are quite easy to overlook if you haven't read the book, but: Several passages stood out: "The thing no one tells you abour surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don't tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it's like there's nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you'd be crushed under the weight of it. They don't tell you how you will float through days." On the other hand, the aspect I didn't like is so macroscopic that I can't give it what it theoretically deserves. I absolutely loved this book. I read it in one sitting, and only had one complaint. I wish we would have seen a little more of the intensity like the first and last chapters throughout the book. I knew that at any point zombies could get into the building, but I never really felt scared for the characters while they were in the school. I also knew that at any point Sloane could be simply bitten once to end her life, but again I never felt like that would happen. Those are just my feelings, though, and I could easily see this book being a solid 5-star book for many other readers.In Breaking Bread he resurrects an ancient Middle-Eastern ritual that produces an astonishing result and a humorous observation on the leaders of movements. Sloane was our main character. She lived alone with her father after her sister abandoned left, and he has became even more abusive than before-and it was all centered on her. When her sister left her, she lost the will to live, the need to fight, the gumption to go on. But after the zombie virus begins, she stumbles across 'friends' from school who grab her and bring her with them in their mad dash to survive. This went against all her plans to just lay down and let the zombies have her. This went against her suicide plan. This went against everything she had planned....and so did he. Thud. I end up on my knees. I'm dripping with sweat and my stomach is churning and the sound I heard was not the sound of myself falling and landing but- thud. Underneath the death and the zombies and the lives, there’s a veneer of fake to it all. The book didn’t feel alive to me, like it should. Maybe that’s just me, because everybody’s given this five stars, but I just don’t get it. I really wanted to, but I didn’t.

This small boy is in denial. Although this is not a book he takes readers through amazing adventures. Entertaining and energetic illustrations” Wonder and magic surround us, yet we need a guide to see them. Historically, that guide is the magician-and Robert E. Neale is the celebrated mapmaker for this terra incognita. This book just read painfully, painfully real to me, it hurts. The honesty in here was just astounding.What can I say? I’m not interested in being the oddball again this week but I enjoy brain-nomming stories. *shrug* I have this basic concept about how any story that has to do with zombies is old and funny. Sorry I don’t watch Walking Dead. He tries again. "If you're staying, I want you to stay with me." I want so badly to ask him why, why he thinks he needs me, but he continues. "If you're not staying...if you're going to go through with it, wait until we're out of your way. I couldn't stand to see it." This story has a lot going on for how short it is, but it never feels cluttered. We know that Sloane was abandoned by her sister, Lily, but the details of what was supposed to happen and how that has affected her come out slowly throughout the book. The main focus of this book is each person's will to live. Lily was all Sloane had left so once she left her she has none. Sloane wants desperately to just die. I thought the author wrote this very well. We can feel Sloane's desperation and hopelessness, but she never seems emo.

As everyone probably already knows, this is Courtney Summers' zombie book, and on the surface it's got the familiar elements: zombie apocalypse occurs, nearly everyone is infected almost immediately, small bands of survivors hole up and hope for the best while knowing they're probably going to meet their doom.

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Now, you know I'm a huge fan girl when it comes to Melina Marchetta, especially because I can't help but fall in love with every single character she brings to life. In this book, Courtney Summers manages to create flawed characters I adore. Though it was anything but evident at first, because I have a thing : I don't usually love depressive characters. Yeah, you got it, the key word here is usually. Indeed Sloane is all kind of depressing - she actually wants to die - and yet she managed to move me like crazy. How did she do this? How? I'm not sure I can't even explain. Jean Jullien engages kids' imaginations in absorbing style, asking them to suspend their assumptions about for and play with the conventions of the book in their hands ... Very enjoyable indeed.' – Absolutely Mama The plot starts a little slow as it establishes the major characters and their specific roles in putting across the themes of the story. Every character represents the obvious but very convincing possibilities of human nature when faced with existential crisis. The heated dialogues, the impossible choices they had to make, the way they had to live which can be barely called living, the urge to do and feel things they think they might never be able to tomorrow, holding out waiting for nothing because nothing happens. It all felt real and made this a very gripping and powerful story and you find yourself immersed in their grim situation.