Saturday, March 14, 2009

Generation Dead


OK so while struggling through The Graveyard book i picked up another book. Its called Generation Dead. Its about a goth girl named Phoebe and it takes place in a world like ours except with a little difference, some teens that die come back. They are zombies but advocates for their rights call them "living impaired". Only the teens are coming back and some people think its the start of the Apocalypse. Others just think its wrong and then there are some, like Phoebe who feels like an outcast for being goth sympathises with them. The books starts getting interesting when Phoebe falls for an undead named Tommy Williams. He's a little different from the other "living impaired". He does what no undead has ever done, he goes out for the football team. Not everyone is happy about this and a tough kid on the team Pete Martinburg decides its up to him to rid the school of the zombies and their breathing friends.

I thought the book was just OK. It was mostly dialog or the characters thoughts so coming up with images in your minds a little hard. Also in the middle of chapters the characters switch. There are a ton of time skips making it frustrating. There were characters who seemed important at the beginning an then disappeared as the book went on. The author builds up events that end up being a few bits of dialog. All in all the book was just OK. There was some mild language and just a little bit of suggestive humor amongst the football players but its just apart of the characters. I'm going to make up my own rating so I'm giving this book a cupcake and a half. :) God Bless!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds good in concept, Disney in execution. What's the maximum amount of cupcakes a book can get?!

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    Meagan is a good girl :3

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  2. you can get up to 7 cupcakes. :) I wanted a number not used for scoring that often. :)But yeah the book was OK and when the sequl comes out i'll get it out of the library but the way the author wrote was confusing while the story was very interesting. But also the guys in the book who like Phoebe wernt that great. You wouldnt want to date these guys. maybe because the author was a guy and didnt know girls dont always like the football players who are just really tough. Why would a goth fall in love with a football player! Its maddness!! (not that she does) Lol

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