Keep yourself in the dark on the details, and enjoy. I listened to the audiobook version, and the reader did a good job giving the characters their distinct voices. ( )

I like this book a lot. The plot pulled me in and kept me engaged throughout, and the characters were all interesting. I really like how the author took traditional zombie lore and tweaked it to make something completely new.

I read/listened to this book while I was on vacation so it took me forever to finish. The audiobook is very good. ( )

A solid entertainer written in a very good style. Don't expect astounding plot originality: the expert genre reader will probably anticipate most of the plot twists and even the ending. The sweetness is in the style, and in the focus on characters. This is particularly true of the first part. It's in the first chapters that I fell in love with the novel and the people who live (no pun intended) in its pages. This coup de foudre made me forgive the imperfections in the rest of the book, when characters slip from three full dimensions to interesting but flat posters of themselves with clichéed "development" or, in one case, to hardwired-villain, single-minded, one-dimensional caricature. Actually, I have to admit that it was this character who delivered one of the few surprises during its final appearance: I did not expect a certain dialogue to happen.
By the way, I appreciated the way the dilemmas posed by the starting situation were developed, without manicheism, giving to each character, even the more dislikeable, time and space to display their reasons and the human roots of their own points of view.
All in all an agreeable experience, to which the mastery of the narrating voice in my audiobook version contributed more than I had realised at first. She manages to bring all characters to life without falling into excess. You can always identify who's talking without clues, since their first line in the scene. Standing ovation. ( )

This is an extraordinarily good post-apocalyptic novel. I don't want to give too much away so I'll just say that even if genre fiction isn't your bag, read it. There is so much in here about what it is to be human, parent-child relationships, ethics in research... plus it's very well written. Loved it loved it loved it. ( )

Good story, fun to read, read it in two days. Writing was kind of awful, though. ( )