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There was a half off sale on speculative YA fiction at my local independent book store. After I stopped caressing book spines saying, "come home with me baby and I'll read you all night long like you've never been read before," I came home with a few new friends and a few old favorites, and I ordered a few more.
I have a very bad habit of reading at the bottom of the steps where I'm perfectly positioned as an obstacle to be tripped over. So, when my mom came downstairs, she pulled one of my new prizes, The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (carrie_ryan at livejournal) out of my hands to get me to move and asked a question she really knows better to ask. "What's the book about?" I can't really manage anything coherent about a book until I finish, but that doesn't stop me from trying...
Fish: It has Zombies and Puritans.
Mom: What? That's an unholy duo that should never see the light of day!
Fish: It's good really, It's like The Village only actually good. It's like Night of the Living Dead meets The Scarlet Letter.
Mom: I couldn't read it. I'd be too scared.
Fish: I don't blame you, those zombies are really really really-
Mom: *Twitch* Puritans. I hate Puritans. I would have nightmares for years.
I'll try again.
Mary's world extends only to the fence around her village, for outside is the forest where the Unconsecrated howl and moan, eager to eat and infect the living. The Sisterhood do their best to keep everyone within the fences pure, sure that only their strict adherence to God's words will protect them from the fate that must have befallen the rest of the world. But Mary's mother has told her stories of the world beyond the village, and when her mother is infected and expelled from the village and Mary is sent to join the Sisterhood, she can't get her mother's story out of her head. When an outsider arrives from another village, and soon becomes a very strange Unconsecrated, Mary must discover what the sisterhood has been hiding.
( There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of that world. It is terrifying and wonderful. )
If all goes as planned, there's going to be a movie made of this book. I will absolutely not go see it. *Shudder* I don't need any more nightmares full of shuffling, sprinting dead. Actually, (or so I've heard) the movie's supposed to do for zombies what Twilight did for vampires. Umm, the zombies in The Forest of Hands and Teeth weren't sexy!
I have a very bad habit of reading at the bottom of the steps where I'm perfectly positioned as an obstacle to be tripped over. So, when my mom came downstairs, she pulled one of my new prizes, The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (carrie_ryan at livejournal) out of my hands to get me to move and asked a question she really knows better to ask. "What's the book about?" I can't really manage anything coherent about a book until I finish, but that doesn't stop me from trying...
Fish: It has Zombies and Puritans.
Mom: What? That's an unholy duo that should never see the light of day!
Fish: It's good really, It's like The Village only actually good. It's like Night of the Living Dead meets The Scarlet Letter.
Mom: I couldn't read it. I'd be too scared.
Fish: I don't blame you, those zombies are really really really-
Mom: *Twitch* Puritans. I hate Puritans. I would have nightmares for years.
I'll try again.
Mary's world extends only to the fence around her village, for outside is the forest where the Unconsecrated howl and moan, eager to eat and infect the living. The Sisterhood do their best to keep everyone within the fences pure, sure that only their strict adherence to God's words will protect them from the fate that must have befallen the rest of the world. But Mary's mother has told her stories of the world beyond the village, and when her mother is infected and expelled from the village and Mary is sent to join the Sisterhood, she can't get her mother's story out of her head. When an outsider arrives from another village, and soon becomes a very strange Unconsecrated, Mary must discover what the sisterhood has been hiding.
( There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of that world. It is terrifying and wonderful. )
If all goes as planned, there's going to be a movie made of this book. I will absolutely not go see it. *Shudder* I don't need any more nightmares full of shuffling, sprinting dead. Actually, (or so I've heard) the movie's supposed to do for zombies what Twilight did for vampires. Umm, the zombies in The Forest of Hands and Teeth weren't sexy!
