I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a long time, and a large part of it is due to the characters and dialogue, as well as all the little writing tricks that give each main character's point of view its own charm. I discovered the book thanks to Dominic Smith's review on youtube, and I must say I share most of his points, both positive and negative, notably the fact that book feels a bit too much like a Prolonged Prologue. At the end of the book I was torn between "hell yeah!" and "wait, it's the end already?"
At first I wasn't too sure I liked the relative change in tone between before and after Emily's zombification, but in retrospect I think it's justified. She has quite literally ceased to belong to the human world so obviously her perspective is gonna change, especially with the crazy shit she witnesses afterwards. Besides, spending so much time with human!Emily and her teammates in the first quarter of the book only gives more weight to their "reunion" at the end of it.
A thread to talk about Elisa Hansen's The Immortal Journey series and its recently released first book, The Company of Death.
In short, this is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy horror series where a zombie girl starts a road trip with the flesh-and-bones (well, mostly bones) incarnation of Death to restore balance after a Zombie Apocalypse.
I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a long time, and a large part of it is due to the characters and dialogue, as well as all the little writing tricks that give each main character's point of view its own charm. I discovered the book thanks to Dominic Smith's review on youtube, and I must say I share most of his points, both positive and negative, notably the fact that book feels a bit too much like a Prolonged Prologue. At the end of the book I was torn between "hell yeah!" and "wait, it's the end already?"
At first I wasn't too sure I liked the relative change in tone between before and after Emily's zombification, but in retrospect I think it's justified. She has quite literally ceased to belong to the human world so obviously her perspective is gonna change, especially with the crazy shit she witnesses afterwards. Besides, spending so much time with human!Emily and her teammates in the first quarter of the book only gives more weight to their "reunion" at the end of it.