Review: Loved it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2013
Originally posted in Night Owl ReadsBisi Leyton gave me an ebook copy of this for review. Thank you very much!This is the first zombie-themed novel I've read and I'm proud to say that it didn't disappoint. It was full of action and suspense, and an even greater mystery that was barely answered when the story reached its end. I am left wondering what the big secret is, and how it will be resolved. I must learn more about this world.I love the cover, I even made it my Facebook profile photo. It's pretty creepy and I'm inexplicably drawn to it. I'm not a big fan of scary/creepy stuff but the cover of this book was one of the reasons I signed up to read it.There's a glossary of terms in the beginning of the book, the author has created a world quite different from ours and it helped that she provided the glossary aside from describing some of the words used in the story. I liked that the main character, Wisteria, is unlike other female characters. She's average, more realistic, or I'd like to think she is based on the descriptions. I also liked that she acknowledged the fact that there are far more important things to worry about than having an intimate relationship with a guy. That was a big plus for me. I love reading intimate and romantic scenes but sometimes in dystopian settings, it's like the characters forget that they are fighting for their lives, that was not the case in this book.I liked the idea of the Family - or at least, I enjoyed reading about Bach. There's still much I do not understand about them, maybe we will know more in the next books, but they do seem like obnoxious beings - so full of themselves. It's a world I am very much interested in learning more about. Here's to hoping Bisi Leyton would write a spinoff or something.The twist near the end caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting it to be that way...but it explained some things that I didn't notice when I was reading. I should have known! Guess I was fooled too. But it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the end though so I do not know what happened to that.All in all, it had a great ending but presented more problems and questions than resolutions and answers. I will definitely wait on the second book and be on the lookout for more works by Bisi Leyton.