There are 'Breakfast Club' moments where the teens bond as they linger in the school, hoping for rescue, but the infighting is wearing them down. One of the underlying themes is the loss of family, their coping, and whether or not the survivors create their own. Grace's twin, Trace, blames one of the others for the death of their parents. Grace starts to represent the lost Lily to Sloane, and watching Grace and her brother interact resurrects the ghost of the relationship she had with Lily. Sloane is clearly conflicted between her safe lassitude and the emotions of loss and anger threatening to leak out. Tension starts going LotF direction when another survivor joins the group. I felt the book took a more negative quality turn with the contrivance of the text message. At athat point, it's clear frantic emotion will win out over logic. And I have to say that I felt the ending too ambiguous for my tastes. The ending, for me, was the worst, although not unexpected. I am just not sure how I am supposed to feel about the book being left there. It was harsh. Instead of finishing the book on the adrenalin rush of the first sections, i was stunned, disheartened and oddly, empty. Dazed.

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Call them a catalyst, a threat, an inciting event – the zombies are an ominous presence that set off a chain reaction of events and lurk unnervingly around the corners of the book. But this is not even so much a book about survival, although that’s certainly one of the themes threading through the story.That gifted entertainer, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, author of “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith” (four volumes, neatly boxed, suitable for throwing purposes), reverts to tripe in a new book deftly entitled “Lay Sermons.” This small boy is in denial. Although this is not a book he takes readers through amazing adventures. Entertaining and energetic illustrations” This book kind of felt like The Breakfast Club meets the zombie apocalypse. It focuses so much more on human relationships as opposed to the apocalypse itself, and it was refreshing. I love the way it implies that zombies aren't always the biggest threat (because Sloane's abusive Father is more scary than any zombie could ever be.) I feel like this is a very realistic take on how teenagers would handle themselves in a zombie apocalypse; all very frantic and unsure of what to do and afraid to kill zombies and people. It's not like you just suddenly become okay with killing zombies just because you're in an apocalypse, and those zombies were people once too. This is not a book where the zombies scare you, this is a book where the characters make you think. Okay, okay so.....I had some SERIOUS doubts on this one. Not because I don't trust my wonderful Alien friend (Anna), and not because I don't love dystopian anymore. No, I had doubts because I haven't read a dystopian in what feels like forever-hell, I can't even name the last one I read because I don't remember. This is my favorite genre and I haven't read one in what feels like an eternity. But facts are facts: Excellent dystopians are rare. There is only so much disappointment a person can take, and when you continually see fail after fail, you begin to hold out for that one special book that will make you fall head over heels in love with the genre that stole your heart before. This is that book. This is the book that had me reading at every opportunity, even at the expense of not eating. This is the book that felt so real, so dark, that it touched me on a visceral level. No fluff. No excuses. No one safe. That...is the definition of an excellent dystopian.

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There's something so desperate in her way to handle all the crazy stuff that happens constantly and yet she's never ever whining. Not a single time - I often found myself in awe of her perseverance, as I think there's some braveness to show such motivation, even if it's to die at some point. Did I find it stupid? Of course I did. I have a thing against suicide, I can't deny it, that's totally personal and I can't help it - it often obscures my judgment about characters like her, because not only suicide makes me sad, but it piss me off. But Sloane won me. Completely. I took her with all her flaws and wanted just one thing : to read about her.This is not a Test' includes a group of sorrowful teenagers trying to survive (some of them at least) and a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies.

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the anger and cussing never seems over the top and forced, the more sexual scenes were done so well, giving us readers what felt right. i think the author probably pushed a bit more than what i've read in other YA books but guys you have no idea how great it felt to finally read a book where the author pushed the line a little. it fit so perfectly with the book and the characters, that i thanked her countless times for just going for it and not giving a shit what others would say. In Breaking Bread he resurrects an ancient Middle-Eastern ritual that produces an astonishing result and a humorous observation on the leaders of movements.

So maybe I'm prejudiced against these books because they're sold at Urban Outfitters or the Barnes and Noble gift section, and they're as much toy as book. Listen carefully. You must read this book. If it’s the last thing you do, I implore you to read it. It will change your outlook on life and completely astound you. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she's failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. 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.

This Is Not a Book by Keri Smith: 9780399535215

i am caked in mud and my hair is straggly and knotted from the rain. my lips are bruised. there are cuts and scratches on me that i must have gotten since leaving the school but i don't remember how. she won't recognize me when she sees me. i look like someone who has survived.For me, deep at its heart, this was a book about will. The will to live versus the will to die. And how sometimes, for some people, this is not an unconscious, involuntary response to each day as it arrives, but a choice and a fight every moment. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of “a book,” Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. With intriguing prompts, readers will discover that the book can be: We'll become reanimated corpses navigating a sorry imitation of our glory days and this is why I don't understand the point in going on, why it's so wrong to give up. There's nothing left."