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The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
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M.R. Carey’s The Boy on the Bridge (2017) is a prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts, both parts of a zombie apocalypse series I read because a friend is doing a project based on dystopian monster books. I do read a lot of dystopian books (Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is my latest, which I loved), but I am not typically into zombies. I am one of the rare comics readers that stopped reading The Walking Dead, so see? I mean, I get the whole allegory for our time, and the need to get together to save the world, so that makes the whole genre worthwhile. I’m pro-survival!
This one is good, well-written but unless it was because I read it fast, I didn't think it added much new to the genre. The pacing seems slow for half the book, and I don't care about many of the characters. I’ll look at your reviews to see how I was wrong. I mean, it is YA horror and features a boy sent out into the world to save it from virus-created monsters, or “hungries.” The passengers of the Rosalind Franklin, an armored motorhome holds scientists, military personnel, and a fifteen-year-old boy named Stephen Greaves.
Stephen is our mc, and interesting--autistic, savant. The pregnant Dr. Samrina Khan is our primary female narrator and gets Stephen. All the others seem quite indistinguishable from each other and seem to scapegoat (or just be mean) to Stephen apparently because he is young, smart and weird.
Stephen discovers a band of wild children who are as fast and predatory as the hungries, but they have the ability to communicate and think. This is a key important discovery, that these children seem to be different than adults infected by the virus.
I do like that discovery and what it means for the future. I like the opening of the book, I like Carey’s top scale writing chops, and I like the epilogue, that has a hopeful vibe.
This one is good, well-written but unless it was because I read it fast, I didn't think it added much new to the genre. The pacing seems slow for half the book, and I don't care about many of the characters. I’ll look at your reviews to see how I was wrong. I mean, it is YA horror and features a boy sent out into the world to save it from virus-created monsters, or “hungries.” The passengers of the Rosalind Franklin, an armored motorhome holds scientists, military personnel, and a fifteen-year-old boy named Stephen Greaves.
Stephen is our mc, and interesting--autistic, savant. The pregnant Dr. Samrina Khan is our primary female narrator and gets Stephen. All the others seem quite indistinguishable from each other and seem to scapegoat (or just be mean) to Stephen apparently because he is young, smart and weird.
Stephen discovers a band of wild children who are as fast and predatory as the hungries, but they have the ability to communicate and think. This is a key important discovery, that these children seem to be different than adults infected by the virus.
I do like that discovery and what it means for the future. I like the opening of the book, I like Carey’s top scale writing chops, and I like the epilogue, that has a hopeful vibe.
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