"On a sunny Wednesday morning in October, a day that would mark the end of one life and the beginning of another, I found out my grouchy next door neighbor was the walking dead. When you turn around expecting to see something familiar, and instead see something else altogether, it takes a little while for your brain to catch up with your eyes. I call it the 'Holy Crap Factor.'"
Forced to flee his home and family, twelve-year-old Will Ritter falls in with the Undertakers-a rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters who've banded together to battle the Corpses.
My thoughts
This book is intended for young boys who like the zombie genre. But I am not a young boy and this is not quite your ordinary zombie story and I loved it!
Will Ritter at first sees his neighbor looks like the undead, then his teacher. Soon he is running for his life and to protect his family, hiding with a group of others that ‘see’ these zombies. They call themselves the Undertakers and he soon learns that they ‘people’ aren’t dead but their corpses have been taken over by aliens. And only kids can see them for what they really are.
This is an interesting approach to this type of horror. Ty Drago writes for the young boy and the adolescent will certainly enjoy this story, but so will the older crowd (like me). It is fast paced, not too gory and a fresh idea for what seems to be the beginning of a series of Undertaker stories.
Disclosure: I received this book for review from the publisher. I received no compensation for my thoughts.
1 comments:
It's funny, I just finished this book. I was really impressed by it. I enjoyed reading it,too.
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